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life story of ground to a halt. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema starts may twenty seventh on t.w. . south africa goes to the polls despite rampant unemployment and out of control debts it looks like voters will return the incumbent a.n.c. policy and its presidents are all roma to office will still face the problems that have been fixed since the fall of apartheid. tightening belts during ramadan soaring prices in algeria i mean many families who will not be able to touch essential food as tradition demands. this is business africa.

and berlin welcome south african president. is on course to retain power in the country's elections today he'll face the immediate challenge of fixing a floundering economy that is stoking public unrest while the country is the continent's most industrialized economy it is grappling with stagnating growth rampant corruption ballooning national debt of low investor confidence half way down the country's potential of the ruling a.n.c. it's been in power since the end of apartheid and is widely tipped to win again holding a more than fifty percent of the vote bottom employment is near thirty percent soaring fuel prices and a weak currency are adding to the problems. for the incumbent sarong opposed it will have a tough task creating jobs attracting foreign money and tackling corruption speaking to d.w. a few days ago ramaphosa was confident that he can turn the economy around we're going to drum up a lot of investment beyond these elections the level of confidence in the business

community will go high and they are telling me that as well so best thing a lot of what happened after the election had won the election and they caught on they would take all will be able to walk in life more investment into our country your way to be. a normal election elections bill clinton's old adage applies it's the economy stupid in that if you get the economy right get people into jobs and make sure they cannot good money to feed their families you would elections in poses as that seems to be irrelevance south african economy truly is a bad state and yet he is still leading the polls our correspondent on galleries in cape town for us ellis also africans really happy with a comic situation and drama poses a film. feel that it's to do. it's.

now twenty five years off the president but it connections look back at the promises the it's made them to improve their lives people expected jobs people we thought might now decides that's so nice promises yes you still going to win but i think we are going to see that they are going to do so to speak us to be bus on. the wire come through our position skoal on the economic record. well they're trying to say people see don't talk opposition parties who gets more folks on the recent oh they called smores that a lot of people that are happy are not going to vote remaining looking at the young people born ops up archetypes if you're going to bracket between eighteen and thirty years old to read you know that off it didn't freak just to be just best friends so that is the public position mark to be to need to start getting.

on and get more votes that yes so now a lot of the older generation is voting and that still support. as we've heard. speaking about incoming foreign investment and growing trust of the business community is he completely out of touch or will he be able to turn the economy around. he said but it's not going to be easy also because the agencies that he's working on. other people that. it's not. so. it's because that's. who. was on. it was fun go there in cape town for us and we had college ice for the sound quality there

thank you alice across the muslim world to face for fasting during daytime for the holy month of ramadan that means no eating during the day but when the sun goes down fast can turn to faced in algeria the political and economic crisis results in galloping inflation and that means many families will not be able to purchase the essential foods that ramadan tradition demands. during the day algerian families go to the marketplace to shop for the ingredients to break the remedy down fast in the evening but this year soaring prices mean they'll struggle to buy traditional ingredients some of them that tomato in zucchini prices are incredibly high. inflation and financial difficulties are already making it hard for families but prices have increased exponentially in the month of ramadan some shoppers suspect vendors of price gouging that. seventy percent of vendors do

not respect the reference price and only thirty percent of vendors do so we want the authorities to force the vendors to comply with the official price. vendors say they're being unfairly accused. it's not our fault the problem is with wholesalers in other cities. there is no evidence of price fixing the products are simply subject to the rules of supply and demand. however the unprecedented price rises have prompted authorities to launch surprise inspections aimed at getting the markets back into balance. many seek to improve their income with some of the seasonal jobs that flourished during the month of ramadan or the markets or alleys in various tunisian cities are packed with seasonal vendors who are here for the present of ramadan ramadan boosts the

livelihood of many people some ordinary shops turn to selling foodstuffs especially sweets olives and. and to iran where president hassan rouhani has warned that the country would resume its nuclear enrichment program after the u.s. said it would not extend exemptions to sanctions u.s. sanctions on iran and venezuela tightening also problems is suspected to drive prices in the coming weeks could be other trade related pitfalls ahead iran's biggest oil consumer customer rather china as threatened to ignore the u.s. sanctions because tehran is a key ally in its road infrastructure project. if chinese energy company has just signed a deal worth more than a billion dollars to recover natural gas from iraq's giant how file oilfield representatives from china's cppcc and petro china signed the agreement in baghdad with iraq's ministry of oil the chinese say the gas processing plant will be able

to recover and refine three hundred million cubic feet of gas pradesh its plans to be operational in two and a half years deal comes a day after iraq announced plans for a fifty three billion dollar and energy project with x x a mobile and better charge . fees but germany's geographical location smack bang in the middle of europe means that intra european commercial traffic is crisscrossing the country day and night so noisy diesel guzzling trucks tend to dominate the country's outer bands and their numbers are increasing now germany has opened its first electric highway for hybrid trucks testing the technology on both sides of a five kilometer stretch south of france. for andreas patterson electric trucks are nothing new he works for the swedish manufacturer scania which has been developing in building electric trucks for a number of years this new model gets its power from overhead contact lines using

a pantograph. the silence this is the freds. when you turn off the internal combustion engine and go electric. you still have a little noise on the tires of course but you have no wide variation and no sign sound from the days of that. there are five kilometers of overhead contact lines in each direction on this stretch of the our robot with tests on the way in northern and southern germany. this is standardized the highway of all that is the same all over the height of the same so this truck can also go on the swedish row and they can also go on the road saying. about it oh well connected to the overhead lines of trucks battery charges so it needs much less battery volume than a purely battery trip in each truck. the battery is physical

sizes from here to here and about sixty centimeters deep the rest of the box is cooling and power electronics to keep the battery cool or warm depending on the weather outside in a few weeks five logistics companies will start delivering goods via the highway the overhead line will save companies time you have to move the end but here i have the possibility to load the view and during operation i can make my delivery pickup truck back to the loading location and can load again at the same time basically if you do it right the battery is never empty and you never need to plug in the vehicles battery or refuel diesel between trips i need to that's a huge advantage and it's then just full and small to. this is the reason for it electro trucks running off the overhead contract lines are quiet and environmentally friendly but they're only one alternative to fossil fuel and only

certain motorway sections are suitable for you don't have to electrify every last kilometer you could stick to routes where there's lots of heavy traffic this stretch handles thirteen thousand trucks a day so it's worthwhile that the lords the results of this field test will be available in four years then the decision will be made on equipping any further autobahns sections with overhead contact lines. thrive as a derived. staging a strike in the us and some other cities around the world on wednesday before the company's initial public offering this friday it's expected to value the company at ninety billion dollars drive us however complain that their income is too low but typically expects them to use their own cars and pay for their own gas and insurance and return drivers won a larger cost of the fed's. former employees of crowded airline jet airways for a state backed solution for the embattled company the indian budget allan's twenty

two thousand workers laid off in april after it's said that step was so excessive it could not pay its fuel bill jet airways has now now owes more than a billion dollars that stuff when the state bank of india to step in with a two hundred million dollars bridging loan and. back into the air. that's it from me on the business african team here in berlin for more business news. dot com slash business the. global markets africa with if i can do news.

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