correspondent in the capital and also be taking a look at these states of south africa's construction in the street which is struggling. those stories and a whole lot more coming up on d.w. in business news after this after a short break i'll rock n roll and state your. birth . home to have species. a home worth saving. given those are big changes and most start with small steps globally duos tells stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world. news that cuts to strain of submissions and resources should.

create interactive content teaching the next generation doesn't want to touch it. using the channels available to inspire people to take action and more determined to build something here for the next generation the idea is fi environment series of global three thousand on t.w. and all mine. a symbol of national pride and stimulus for uganda's economy or is it just a waste of public money that should go elsewhere gonda research actually its own national airline after twenty years and critics say widespread corruption will send it into a nosedive before it can really take off. also drowning in trash since china stopped accepting western economies trash for recycling a slew of countries have suddenly had to tidy up their own mess and in any easy.

this is business africa. in berlin welcome uganda started to revive its national airline which has been defunct for two decades today it took delivery of two new canadian built bombardier see our j. nine hundred jets the new uganda. regional aircraft landed and entered airport after being flown there from canada ugandan government says restarting the national carrier will help the countries take a slice off those regions growing aviation business and also invigorate the service sector of the economy. but critics especially in uganda opposition disagree does uganda really need its own airline or is it just a prestige project for president yoweri museveni questions i want to discuss with our correspondent. in kampala julius. the critics say that uganda doesn't really need its own allies and does it.

i think it's better off i start from the formal position where governments say the critics have all only go to the awards to see it sees that you're going to really needs an airline to boost tourism to attract foreign investors but a critic said the government is not ready to move a commercially viable entity and they find the business really fragile and that because you've got to terry book terrible history of managing airlines they think you've got no treaty so there are two sides to this very question the government thinks it's doing the right thing and critics say not at this time. the critics say it will go the same way as its predecessor because the main problems that led to the demise of uganda twenty years ago is still persist today what were those problems and do the critics have a point i think the main problem that has been highlighted by the

economy political activists is mismanagement and this it's this mismanagement that filters through to really affect the commercial viability of uganda elayne's they believe mismanagement has contributed a lot to corruption and this has led to recruitment of the wrong elements into the positions that would ideally take their vision take the airline into a commercially viable position and also political interference where they believe that some people in the airline might be appointed to a piece because of their political capito to the president to the state so i think this is not a really good today is. very much. five algerian billion as have appeared in course to face charges of corruption they include four brothers from the influential could mean a family as well as the country's richest man is real brother he's the c.e.o.

of save itself a large corporation news business interests range from agriculture to real estate earlier today algerian state t.v. reported that prosecutors had sent him to prison detentions are part of an anti graft drive against figures close to the former president bill as is beautifully go . to south africa now a country that recently made it onto a bloomberg ranking of the world's most miserable economies putting it in the company of nations like venezuela and the zimbabwe so what's behind all the gloom let's take a look at last year the south african economy expanded by only zero point eight percent but we growth isn't the only problem more than one in four people are currently out of work one sector that has been specially badly hit is construction is suffering from a shortage of both public and private investment just as you look at the at the group five construction firm to get an idea of how dire the situation is it recently filed for bankruptcy protection of the lenders pulled their funding and to

find out more about that and why the industry is struggling so much knowledge joined by philip de wet from business insider south africa philip a group five is one of the biggest construction companies in south africa and is fighting against insolvency what would it mean for the sector if it goes on the. if i dispatch the bass note of all construction companies in south africa you could not drive down a major road without seeing one of its faults but some very prominent buildings so intense that the loss of faith in the construction industry is quite a blow to the reputation over all who find is also one of the bass note international construction agencies doing quite a lot of work in the middle east and elsewhere in africa so for many ordinary south africans who may not have noticed the slow demise of the sector it really is a wakeup call to you to the poorest state that the sector is now all of a sudden found itself and why is the industry in such a bad state and what does it mean for the south african economy if we look forward

ten years it's been somewhat of a perfect storm in the construction industry we've seen a great decline in government spending government of course being one of the major infrastructure spenders in south africa and a lot of that money has simply windell their way in pots due to the corruption scandals that we've seen the national spending has not been able to keep up because a lot of money is simply played away because struction industry was also very simply it's by very large fines for anticompetitive behavior where there was collusion among some of the sons and then the domestic economy as you mentioned simply is not growing we don't have the kind of private investment that could keep these firms of flights as a result we now have a large and contracted six we don't have many large place still standing in the construction industry and it's not clear to us who will be building the major roads in the big dams when the economy does turn and when government spending returns and questions for the things of that philippa that from south africa thank you very

much. importing trash from western economies for recycling all landfill has been good business in africa and all over asia not china's twenty four billion dollars worth of recycled materials imports were a quarter of the total traded globally but a bit over a year ago china quite literally stop taking the world's trash out and put restrictions on imported rubbish now trash exporters can ship the problem overseas any more very easily australia's recycling industry for example as to tackle a growing rubbish crisis head on. australia has a stinky problem after depending on chinese infrastructure for over twenty years there's just too much rubbish to handle with the wife's process. we thought a solution the word of the time is circular economy and this business does just that up cycling old plastic and grinding it down to graduate to build new asphalt

roads. we were a couple resources and we re-use them so we're not just a race off in a national endeavor australia searching for more concepts to keep precious resources from going to the landfill this waste to energy plant is one of them. what we're basically doing here is converting food wise to a new bill energy using the gases that's produced when you stop the wise to voltage and. the plant can process thirty three thousand tonnes of rubbish a year creating enough energy to power nearly seven hundred fifty thousand homes but building waste to energy stations is to turn the capital intensive critics are demanding similar legislation as in the e.u. where waste disposal is only seen as a last resort and so the cost of putting a wise thing to a landfill is much harder than it is even astride it. because almost it well every

option that's a bottle of bullets an alternative to landfill is more expensive excessive waste is not just a mistrial in problem but a global issue more countries will need to move towards a circular economy to keep the earth sustainable for over seven and a half billion people. coming back to you know whether the british government has resumed cross sponsored talks today to find a consensus on britain's exit strategy from the e.u. brussels has had agreed to an extension of this until the end of october but the u.k. can leave the block sooner if parliament in london and agree on a way forward meanwhile britain's trading partners in the e.u. are grappling surpassed any possible threats it's an aureole. to push a roster down is a major hub for trade between the u.k. and the rest of europe. the authorities here have already spent some one point five million euros preparing for breakfast. in dutch customs boss non-net found shelvin

has been inundated with interview requests we estimated it when there's a deal when he has a trade agreement we need at least seven hundred to fifteen new people that's because there will be a border here if there is no deal granted we will need over nine hundred new stop employees at the dutch customs. distortions want to get a better idea of what goods are coming in to do so they're employing new technology including scams that can monitor the contents of trucks and trains. as europe's largest course russia downtowns afford to turn a blind dying to britons are coming to parts or from the e.u. for some documents embracing digital innovations. digital chain watch solution the digital border solution you can say so the idea is to players in the logistics

chain for you know to fighter data towards borge so that in the ports we can easily hear full fuel questions for maliki and when you arrive to the port that the barrier will be open instead of closed. goods destined for nonnie you countries a group that will soon include the u.k. need to be registered online in advance companies that failed to do so aren't permitted to get their cargo anywhere near the ships. no matter what kind of threats it is on the cards here at the ports of roger down the priority is to make the transition as smooth as possible. before i let you go for you gadget junkets junkies rather than some bad news some song is postponing the launch of its hotly anticipated two thousand die. a folding phone after reports of break edges early review is called the galaxy fold quote unusable

just forty eight hours after receiving the device the south korean fans that an inspection suggested the break it could stem from impact on exposed areas of the hinge the delay is a setback as it seeks to battle stiff competition from rivals like huawei or apple release date is due to be announced in the coming. so let's say josh want the business africa for more business news stories. business. with news africa. right after this global market thanks for.

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