as revenues collapsed president nicolas maduro started to print more and more money and turned the venezuelan currency collapsed and the black market flourished. there's no conflict in the supermarkets but you can get it on the black market where it costs 2 or 3 times as much. as that because of corruption yes it certainly is where do the black marketeers get their goods. somebody provides them so the crooks can sell them. corruption also stymies economic development and the ongoing struggle between the government and the opposition further destabilize as the economy 10 years later is not merely on the brink of the abyss it's deep within it.

example of an israel a shows clearly socialist central planning an expropriation very often creates short for supplies energy commodities that never enough it seems market forces are clearly stronger but that does by no means mean that in free market economy supplies always plentiful complicated mechanisms are at work here as our next report explains. what is a shortage economy. imagine you go to the supermarket but the shelves are empty. and you go to a car dealership but you only get a car in 10 years you live in a shortage economy. gary an economist janish korn i coined this term in 1980 in a critique of planned economies in communist countries. his thesis was that shortages in countries like cuba north korea or then east germany were intrinsic to the economic system. in these economies demands didn't determine

which goods were offered at which price instead those decisions were made by the government's 5 year plan. and such plans often failed to anticipate demand or are simply unable to meet it. so does that mean capitalism never has shortages. not at all. there can be a lack of jobs and housing infrastructure daycare spots and a shortage of skilled workers. often companies want quick profits don't train enough employees and outsource jobs abroad rather than investing in their home base . and when they do finally begin to invest there's a shortage of workers with the necessary skills. no matter which system long lasting shortages lead to corruption and a black market scarce goods were traded under the counter and east germany but

bribes also change hands under capitalism for example when affordable housing is scarce. but despite all the drawbacks and paradoxical as it sounds without shortages there would be no growth shortage can be an engine of prosperity. and once you've got everything you need and want you can live happily ever after. and germany's big cities rents are high and so up property prices affordable rental housing and properties for sale are scarce one of the reasons not enough new houses are being built and that's partly because there's a lack of qualified builders electricians and plumbers and short people who actually can make houses fewer and fewer young people take up the famed german

apprenticeships my colleague claudia last shot tried to find out why. the weather forecast says it's going to be a hot day with temperatures above 30 degrees celsius. but at heart also just in today it looks tough but we're used to it we do this every day when it gets too hot we shift down a q. and a collapse its over. construction work goes on in all kinds of weather. these jobs are strenuous and their unpopular this building site has too few workers it's a problem for the sector as a whole which is struggling to find new training means. an awful state when we don't have enough young people are what i call the mid-range around 20 or 21 they don't have the stamina i don't want them without

a condition they're used to getting everything from their parents. but here they have to do it on their own some of them lack logical thinking or the spatial awareness of a little jollies on this portion of us by just walking alone. this is a new waste water pumping facility for the berlin water utility around 40 builders and iron workers are employed on the site. the lack of trained workers is a growing problem their boss explains orders are up and he could hire more than 20 people on the spot but he's had to turn down contracts because he's understaffed. sales are highly tripled in recent years in the past 2 years we've grown from $50.00 to $80.00 employees off the top of other resources on the labor market is simply exhausted and an aging society is also gradually having any. fool.

head hunters have even come to the construction site to will away his workers they've become a valuable commodity to keep them stefan here has raised wages in recent years his employees now earn between 16 and 18 euro's an hour. its body challenged to get thought it was a matter of money on the line yes and after that wage levels had fallen so far that it was no longer attractive to work in construction. that's been compensated. stepwise in the past few years. but the industry still has a bad image. and that's not only true of construction many of the trades have a bad reputation fewer and fewer young people are choosing to get training in professions such as heating and plumbing fitter. with. this company currently has 30 trainees learning to install and maintain heating

insanitary systems. i want to hear from them why they chose this particular profession most of their classmates at school prefer to go to university. problem it is those people get this image from youtube or social media that they have to do this or that or make so and so much money or they only want to work with computers and not to physically strenuous work or get their hands dirty and as much as 10 years ago i can't spend the whole day sitting on a chair i couldn't bear that. one of the trainees came to germany as a refugee from senate on back home he worked as a baker now he's in the 1st year of his training and is still struggling with the german way of doing things. he is working here is a little complicated because you have to follow the rules it's a bit more complicated then in senegal. the trainees

get a lot of attention the company provides extra tutoring and 2 employees have been assigned exclusively to them. this plumbing firm also has many orders but too few workers it's become more and more difficult to find suitable applicants the owner is concerned about his trades bad reputation. this is inspiration years it's gotten to the point where lots of people have a bad image of our profession i call it gas water in beautiful bathrooms but were seen as dealing with filth and being dirty in stinking homes with whom one of them and it's not like that anymore and along each of our service technicians have a lab a child that there's a lot of electronics involved and they have to know a lot about technology. the workers on the construction site don't worry too much about their image they said they're proud of their

profession and what they accomplish every day. towards us civilians are for us it's a way of life even wanted to have don't we get some people who come and think they will get it shown to them quickly and they can do it but not everyone can you have to really want it that was long before. germany has a shortage of trades people i'm surprised that not enough people want to do these jobs despite respectable pay. if this trend continues it will eventually affect everyone. well the lack of qualified workers is already hampering the property sector in germany helping to drive prices and rents up small companies suffer not only here let's take a look around hyderabad in india as yon in china or the hunger in capital of budapest have seen rents explode by 25 percent in just one year berlin is

comparatively well off rents have doubled but it has taken 10 years owners of small businesses are even more vulnerable as commercial rents are not capped here in germany sometimes help comes from unlikely directions how many java for example made millions with buying and selling properties but now he's focusing on helping small businesses to survive and thrive in a demanding invited our reporter mad berlin's property robin hood. rents in berlin have doubled in the last 10 years to harm a job the upward spiral is a worrying development as a millionaire he has no problem paying his rent but he can understand tenants concerns. if this. gap between rich and poor gets too extreme you get social tensions the rich don't like that either. piece decided to protect tenants against speculative buying especially tradespeople what he does is buy

commercial premises to rent to them. disclosing company was the 1st to benefit. and has been handling works of art here for 50 years. this workshop is like a 2nd home. not long ago the property changed hands. then you got word the new owner wanted him out. we don't have i was desperately looking for a new place for over a year. but i couldn't find anything and when i did it was too expensive. and anyway a 100 year old business needs to stay where it is that. the company was able to stay under the same conditions thanks to him in java he bought the work space

460-0000 euros is among. this man makes a living for himself and his family with this shop the livelihood of the entire family depends on this shop without it he loses his livelihood. and that's pretty much socially unacceptable the state should step down that it's important to protect these small businesses but they have absolutely no protection. the millionaire believes in protecting renters. but of course he also likes a project that can turn a profit. he's hoping to get a lot out of this property the obvious tribune a. legendary berlin landmark. but it was 500000 euros quite affordable but i invested

a huge amount just throwing the trash out cost a $5.00 figure sum it was for. nearly a 100 years old the obvious is widely considered the 1st motorway in the world to spectators stand for the old test track and racing circuit known as the tube you know is the 1st thing many visitors see when they drive into the german capital. the obviously being a student band and for more than 20 years. nobody had any use for it. come on if. you can't rent out steps and if something doesn't make you money and you can't invest so we're building offices under the steps to rent out council and there'll be a glass front to turn it into a 400 square metre event space the whole prog. well cost about $7.00 or $8000000.00 euros but this private. jet has gone bankrupt twice in the course of his career perhaps that's why he knows what it means when rents become unaffordable. this is

because in the show i mean that's why you need tenants who don't cause trouble who pay their rent on time who take care of the building and don't bother you that's how my tenants are because they're happy that i'm also a tenant and my landlord feels the same he just travels and plays golf because he knows his property is safe. just a cold spell in a home and he wants to make sure it remains a place where people can afford to live and work. is what i call a win win situation and that's it from me at the made in germany thankful.

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a permanent top official for a record 7 months. western europe is bracing for record breaking temperatures this week the severe heat is expected to affect france belgium and the netherlands with temperatures topping 40 degrees celsius. the southwestern french city of bordeaux saw a record high of 41.2 degrees on tuesday. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes kenya's fight against corruption the country's finance minister has been arrested and charged with graft so does the small get turning point for the notoriously corrupt country or is this politics at play. and the european union mission in africa the block is increasingly focusing its attention on countries in this hell as it seeks to curb

my probation. then on the road in madagascar out with a new pope will be built by the country's only call made to be ready for pope francis to visit. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa. kenya's finance minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges and we've made his 1st court appearance since he's a risk on monday spent the night in a police cell but he's now been freed on bail he and other senior officials are accused of conspiring to defraud the public over award over the award office. contract to build 2 dams to an italian company he's the 1st sitting kenyan minister to be arrested on perhaps charges. kenya is also requesting the extradition off the

italian head off the construction company which was contracted to build the dams he is the head of the public prosecution service in kenya. in view of the international nature of this crisis we realize that we cannot fight corruption or no or another structure beautified to the commit crimes the office of the director of public prosecutions must prioritize the proceeds of crime benefits and instruments of crime i said confiscation and for future this position has been made professionally independently devoid of any external influence political discourse of derision or any other extremist and for more on this story i'm joined by the executive director of transparency international can yes emil kim a transparency international is an international n.g.o.s working to combat corruption welcome to africa mr kim a do you think fear of rest of the finance minister henry rothsay shmucks a turning point for kenya. well thank you for having me

on the show may. get your views that this is an important step forward. in time. we intervened to be seen because the rest are just the faster you know the prosecution process and ultimately what you want to see completions and people being here and responsible for their crimes right exactly and just feel point about you know one thing to see convictions there's been many voices in quarters in kenya talking about the fact that we shouldn't be celebrating a race so to say because very few convictions have followed but what's basically different about this case we hear of corruption at state level in cape kenya all the time we now have this minister being arrested why him in particular when there's seemingly many others who should be in his position. well i think this is the minister of finance think that is really the core government so he's the senior

most government official who has the arrested for corruption and that is the new country because he is the man who runs government police around you know across the country as there are in connection deposition and determined but just and so on and so forth so he's really had to call. right i've sort of going to see is some of the words from the public prosecutor he says he had that the decision to prosecute mr roach was made quote professionally independently and without the musical consideration do you accept that statement unconditionally. well. 1 i would give him the benefit of doubt so i accept that statement. because they know that. you know a country where corruption is rampant you book you start somewhere and suddenly you know we do things in kenya you find you one is is arrested is

a community that is aggrieved and would definitely say they're being targeted so in this case i think i wouldn't have go into the public prosecutor's statement critics argue that all they've said. to me is that this is an attempt by the president to misuse the anticorruption fight in exile in the sense of he actually wants to weaken a political component and one did open it i wonder what your view of that is. in this particular case you are talking about a significant number of suspects from a particular region and that is surely in my view because one be the government agency for the carrier where the development agency is in the particular place and obviously you have more people from that lease wacken probably for periods but maybe it raises another question how to use our national entity who have so many people from one place and the argument would be that if you don't have

people in places where teams who are all you cannot go to china than for anything so ultimately you are in office i want to be responsible for whatever happens in both of them. all right executive director of transparency international kenya samuel kim a thank you as europe seeks to tackle the issue of migration it is increasingly focusing its attention on the countries of pisa hell region these and mauritania look in the fossil mali and chad.