more than half a 1000000 holidaymakers across the globe are left stranded after the of rep collapse of the travel firm thomas cook's holidays are turning into nightmares for tourists caught up in the chaos janell's of all out we'll have that story and a whole lot more coming up in business news after a short break and i'll see you again at the top of the hour for now thank you for spending this part of your day with us. we're going to one official estimates more than 1200000 venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. why return to swallow. visiting friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. witness news that matters. made phone lines. bursting in school in the.

first clueless. doris grand moment arrives join the arena taking on her journey. you know we're going to return to. the ring in time returns home. in a closely watched decision kenya's central bank has kept its benchmark interest rates steady but indicated it might not stay that way i'll get some analysis from our correspondent in nairobi. also on the show the world's oldest travel company collapses b.n. to all the scope stalls trouble for holiday makers of the world. and here is a concrete proposal to cut back on c o 2 used to solve a deal instead engineers at the university of lagos in nigeria figure out how to

turn the group product into a less polluting. this is the the way of business i'm joined on in berlin welcome kenya's central bank has signaled it may start cutting interest rates in the coming months but for now the bank's monetary policy committee decided to keep the benchmark rate unchanged at 9 percent it's the 7th time in a row that the figure has been kept on who the bag expects inflation and kenya to remain within its target range despite concerns about a drought could cause crude shortages. for more let's cross over to our correspondent joy biro in nairobi hi joy basically the bank has signaled they're prepared to cut rates soon as the government scales back spending when is that expected to go down and how. well i don't think this is really going to be a change march from the current central bank region of

a 9 percent we're likely to see this remain the same or remain unchanged and deal next year because what the central bank is trying to do is to step in lies the banking sector and so it is really not much that we are expecting to happen because as it eased right now it's actually helping to stabilize the banking sector because previously it was actually quite difficult to step away as the banking sector when we had the central bank rate at higher percentages also until i think we see the parliamentarians coming out and saying that repealing you know the interest rate cap is when we are likely to see these central bank rate changing much but for now there's not really much that is expected the experts also are thinking the same financial experts are saying that likely not to see any changes and till next year so it doesn't seem that there were any surprises for you there but is there anything that they had a standout to in the announcement. not really but what actually

can be talked about is the fact that the central bank did point out be concerned about the volatility in international markets because they have been observing the tension between the united states and china as well as the brics it debate going on and so because kenya is a diverse market and exports a lot of its real produce to these very markets it's quite a bit of a concern that should anything happen internationally or should anything affect the global international markets it's likely to have a ripple effect in kenya. and is there any particular way that kenyan policymakers are preparing for this market volatility. what we're seeing from the statement center banks or want to repeal is the community seems confident that you know they will be prepared for whatever external shocks that

might come up as a result of the tension between china and the united states and brags that. but you can't be sure because what we're seeing is how far its reserves in kenya at the moment according to the numbers that center about to tout is up 5.7 months of import cover shoot these tensions between the united states and china as well as breck's it. is likely to affect exports of kenya and this is also likely to affect for its reserves and slow down economic growth and slow it down as well on remittances that come into the country joy during a bear and i wrote before thank you very much for your analysis. gabon is set to become the 1st african country to be paid to preserve its forests using international funds the announcements come from the u.n. from the bonnet which is almost 90 per cent covered by forest will get one

$150000000.00 from norway to battle the forest station as part of a 10 year deal the gabbin is minister of forest welcomed the news saying he hoped it would encourage more similar investment the country has been a leader in central africa and preserving forests having created 13 national parks since the turn of the millennium. the world's oldest travel company thought muskoka has collapsed after failing to secure a last minute bailout more than half a 1000000 people worldwide are currently on holiday with the group the u.k. aviation authority is beginning an operation to bring customers stranded abroad back to britain it's being billed as the largest repatriation effort and british peacetime history. polities a chance to distress and recharge the batteries not so for these travellers among hundreds of thousands of thomas cook customers wondering how well now they're going to get hold. they just how disconnected i think the r.b.a.

rejects get so we should get more information but we're not too sure this is a nightmare they mistrust. not want it really people who are told to call can you do if you're overseas on a thomas cook holiday and you can continue to enjoy your holiday the cia is launching a report in this is the largest repression since the 2nd world war and we will be bringing harum every party. back to the u.k. as close as possible to their return date 150000 brits need to be flown home in all 600000 holidaymakers are affected. the farm has been struggling in recent years mounting debts of high interest. alongside changing consumer habits combined to create rough conditions in the travel and aviation market uncertainty surrounding brakes it didn't help matters things came to a head last month in order to raise cash quickly the bosses put the airline

business on call for sale before scrapping the proposal and presenting a rescue plan to investors despite huge if it's over a number of months. and that intense negotiations in recent days we have been able to secure at the you to say business for some of the 20000 workers at europe's 2nd biggest travel company there may be smiles but the future is far from clear. now to some of the other global business stories making news. a steep drop in german manufacturing is dragging down the eurozone economy and september the purchasing managers index dropped to a 6 year low suggesting the eurozone economy is tolling in close to recession the new sent the euro down point 4 of a percent against the dollar on monday. indonesian investigators have released

in the results into their investigation of a boeing 737 max operated by lion air last october their part blames design flaws and manufacture oversight for the crash the result back up investigations which have raised a safety concerns about the boeing $737.00 max jets. a health care strike in liberia has escalated to another level pregnant women and new mothers are setting up roadblocks after being denied treatment to to a strike by public health stuff doctors and medical workers are striking after not being paid for over 4 months. concrete is just about everywhere it's the most widely used a manmade material for building but did you know that. it's a huge contributor to the climate crisis the $4000000000.00 tons of cement produced produced each year for concrete construction accounts for 8 percent of total global c o 2 emissions but engineers at the university of lagos may have found

a more sustainable alternative civil engineers dr vall from schmidt and dr colo wallie a decent all a not a share a common mission finding the construction material of the future and they reckon they're on to something the peel is the root vegetable cause salva has properties that could help building sites to be more environmentally friendly. cement as lancaster grows to cement is the biggest villain when it comes to the environment because making it produces lots of c o 2 that consumes a lot of energy continue it. cement is a key ingredient of concrete hoping to make it hard but not to all in our day has discovered that the ash burnt kosov appeal can do much the same. we have the irish and we have found out we have produced concrete with it you up with with it i mean strengths which is one of the made your our properties of concrete very very much compared with the more concrete there we have to do. it's

a discovery that can be useful to many parts of africa where he's grown in huge quantities the peel is normally a waste product and so readily available that makes it a cheap alternative to expensive cement and with the cement industry accounting for around 8 percent of global c o 2 emissions because software can help african builders to build greener. now japan is a country at the forefront of robotics technology and the robotics specialist at the center of a campaign that would have us consider robots our friends that some of their efforts to find in technology that blurs the line between man and machine. forget clunky automatons doing basic tasks and listen to erica hear future robots talk the talk their brains infused with artificial intelligence this is a lot more science than fiction japan is going all out to build robotics tech

roboticists like a russian you should go through our blurring the lines between humans and machines for him it's a necessity of simple evolution. fundamentally the human we need to have a technology ok we're improving our. by developing a new technology of technologies away or by body therefore we cannot separate human the technology human the robert. you know the type of copper. therefore you know it is not the damage it's. you know our way of. robot technology is streaking ahead in japan recent advances include a remote controlled robot arm that can pick up and move objects a smallest 2 tenths of a millimeter wide. the. robots are getting more like humans but fears of killer robots of the stuff of movie paranoia and do not reflect the reality. of why and on the hollywood hate there rob. and how you would want to destroy that is

a war with the role of the so many. in the future robots will be highly intelligent self-aware an invaluable around the house especially in countries like japan where the population is aging fast much more than simple appliances they can become conversation partners maybe even friends. and that's it for me and the business team for more you can always go to d.w. dot com slash business are follow us on social media thank you so much for watching .

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