her plan to exit several potential successors are jockeying for position a couple of said she will resign as party chair in december and has ruled out running for reelection as chancellor. she's. still to come germany's unemployment rate is at its lowest since reunification affairs has the numbers for you coming up in this next. one. scars cover don't forget women in russia have to live with violence sexism and depression love softly and that violence is normal in russia. where putin is

patriarchy rooms today women's rights were already gaining traction hundred years ago. people here don't have a clue about feminism but there are women who want to instigate change in every day looking for justice and equality. under the skin of russia's women starts nov thirteenth on w. . i think. about employment is on a historic low but it's not just a sign of a healthy economy going full steam ahead it also shows wide germany needs immigration of still work those. also on the show brags it does not only affect britons it's also threatens the livelihood of many follows inside the prison. please.

welcome to germany's unemployment rate fell below five percent in october the lowest level of unemployment since reunification twenty eight years ago only two point two million people are without a job here in germany the figures continue to show a downward trend despite the headwinds in the global economy. a robust economy has helped push germany's joblessness rate down for the first time since one nine hundred ninety unemployment has fallen below five percent. since january this year unemployment is down nearly one percent to four point nine percent in october from five point eight percent at the beginning of the year that is the lowest rate ever recorded in germany since reunification in one nine hundred ninety s. the trade dispute between washington and brussels doesn't appear to have had an adverse effect on the german job market and neither has the us china trades but the recent

turbulence in the market has strengthened the dollar over the euro that means that german products have become cheaper abroad also record unemployment has helped boost consumer confidence and household spending in europe's biggest economy but despite that the rate of people at risk of poverty is rising in germany according to experts that figure has more than doubled since two thousand and five more germans now have fixed term contracts or work part time while there is more work job security is diminishing. the unemployment figure also shows why germany needs immigration of skilled workers but migrants are required to first learn at least basic german and let me tell you my mother tongue is a difficult language only than that allowed to take up a job regardless of their professional qualification now germany's job agency has joined forces with a baffles month foundation to help unlock it instils and fill some vacancies.

waleed rajiv finally has a job again he came to germany from syria three and a half years ago he was granted asylum and started looking for work but it wasn't easy because he never received any formal training while in syria. i jumped on body so that when i was in syria a friend of mine taught me all the theory he had a lot of experience in wilting you know when i got a job in a company and i was able to put the theory i had learned into practice. in this minute because i never received any formal training. courses available worry that too specialized they were too far away for eight months but now. without formal qualifications or certificates getting a job in germany is usually very difficult something the federal employment agency is looking to change it's come up with a new detailed test over the course of four hours it tests both technical know how

and practical skills. does is to mind it's very fast and very clear and it means job centers no longer have to rely solely on a c.v. or an interview with the applicant side here you have very specific scientifically validated results tailored to a particular job. as that's what is in booth but tests are only available for a job so far ranging from chef to metal worker after passing the test while the broad immediately got a job with an agency that supplies workers for the world ing industry it was the test result that convinced his new employer. by access the same sort of said mr rigi but chief the top score and the analysis of the test result is very details so that we could see clearly that he has what it takes to stance the materials he's working with the n.p. understands the theory he wheels walid rajeeb says the welding equipment and regulations are different in germany but after two months of training he now feels

comfortable in his new job. in a few days he will have his first assignment working at an outside firm the job itself doesn't worry him but the german language still poses a challenge. you know. bomb but i was coming and that was why it's all no doubt be tough at the beginning but given time and contact with others it will improve it's important to learn the language the standing up the more it will become more like a second native tongue for me i have to learn the language so you can participate in life here germany is like my second homeland now you know what i thought of it that in. germany plans to expand the range of aptitude tests to include thirty professional fields in the near future. to our financial correspondent on a cold in france but unemployment on record lows is that of a sign that the german economy is just going to. well the engine get out of

the german powerhouse are still running at a very high level i would say but many analysts are telling us also that we are not anymore on this record level that we had about a year ago and this not just in germany but also in the rest of your we've got the latest growth figures a short while ago for the eurozone which is declining by zero point two per cent in the third quarter of this year mostly italy is giving investors quite some headache at the moment and talking about the i'm employed to numbers and that is very interesting there are also eight hundred and twenty four thousand open jobs forty four thousand more than one year ago highly specialized and trained people are missing teachers are very much wanted lots of open jobs also in the health and the health sector. for some time v.w. has been making good money despite the diesels revenue growth is now slowing it

seems is that the fall out of diesel good. well the numbers could be certainly better but investors are actually telling us also that they don't have that much to complain they didn't believe the numbers would be as strong as they've turned out to be now because he has bought stock in still having issues because of a diesel again there is still also in the process of getting a new vehicle through emission test that made sales numbers a slam so the company now reported it sold eight point one million vehicles in the first nine months of this year's sales revenue rose two point seven per cent to a level of one hundred seventy four point six billion euros i was talking to investors they believe that the outlook for the rest of the year looks also rather promising our financial correspondent daniel cope there reporting live from france . german flag carrier love tons of says it will raise ticket prices next year following disappointing earnings in the recent quarter profits to roughly one point

four billion euros in september eleventh percent less than the same period last year germany's largest airline has been hit hard by a combination of soaring fuel prices competition from budget airlines and compensation payments to customers due to flight cancellations. the british government says it will begin taxing large online platforms like facebook and amazon that operate in the u.k. by the year twenty twenty that's the most significant effort yes to reshape tax codes to the digital era the two percent tax will target online friends earning more than five hundred million pounds annually finance minister philip hammond said such companies generate substantial value in the u.k. but paying corporate taxes and low tax jurisdictions elsewhere the measure is expected to raise four hundred million pounds annually you has been debating a similar. now in great britain leaves the european union not only england

scotland wales and northern ireland exit the blocks but also other sovereign british territories like gibraltar or even smaller areas like british military bases in cyprus and that's posing a huge problems to all of farmers that because they rely on open borders to sell their goods. they may be small but these olives play an outsized role for andreas for to use their own oil is his life blood flow to you farms land owner british air force base an opera teary on the southern tip of cyprus the relationship between farmers and the british military has existed since independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty but it could change dramatically in the event of a note. in the middle of the when nobody has said anything not the cypriot government not our foreign minister or the british foreign minister about how this is going to work and all of oil imported from outside the e.u.

is subject to a fifteen percent tariff at the moment for to you and other cypriot farmers on akrotiri and another british base to kill you in the country's east pay no taxes lawyers disagree whether the two bases would be considered nonny you'd lands in the event of a no deal brags that the cypriot government says the farmers trade is safeguarded or u.k. parliament terry committee has said trade protections would lapse after brags that paying tariffs would cut deeply into farmers bottom line making production impossible for many. of us and we are facing a situation that is uncertain and that's causing us problems with any. it's another seemingly small but significant consequence of the u.k.'s messy divorce from europe . china is rolling back a twenty five year old ban on the use of rhino horns and tiger bones in medicine china's cabinet said book allows thirty five doctors and hospitals to use parts

from these animals raised in captivity excluding zoo animals in illegal trade will still be punished conservation groups all have a describe the move as a significant setback for efforts to protect the animals from extinction they fear their decision will lead to increased poaching of the fewer than thirty thousand rhinos and four thousand tigers still left in the wild and chinese folk medicine that part of believe to cure. a range of ale so. that's it for me on the business team but then i'll have an update for you of course in the next hour in the meantime to check out all social media things on twitter and facebook thank you very much for watching state of new businesses.

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