has paid his respects to millions of people who died in the civil war that led to the commons possibly taking off the commemoration comes as china from past celebrates 70 years since the founding of the people's republic. and still to come a d.-w. business spot and on trial hundreds of thousands of german diesel drivers take the comic to court demanding compensation over the emissions rigging sky. and says it will have story on more off the days of business news in just a moment ago world news the top of the house of a good. takes good personally i do anything with a little gender for the plane stories that make the game so special. for all true fans for the long list. of things cost more than football longline. where is home. with your

family scattered across the globe. the big city is the book the journey to the roots should get my mother. the charge family from somalia live around the world among them needed urgent assistance and. the family starts october any d.w. . gate scandal is making history in more ways than one hundreds of thousands of these letters take the lp to the courts and it's germany's 1st on the slopes in. the collapse of british travel giant tell us book puts gabby is truism sector under serious pressure. at a german family business flourishes. in uganda growing flowers in east africa for

a budding global market. and then physical and let's do business. is in court in germany's very 1st class action lawsuit the civil compensation claims relate to the diesel scandal the court will have to consider if vehicle owners suffer damage from the emissions trading software itself or from subsequent beds imposing on driving older diesel. they could be a watershed moment for germany's legal system for years after the emissions scandal broke hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers now have the chance to hope a carmaker to account. it's the 1st ever class action lawsuit to take place in the country similar auctions in the united states have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. for the good of analysis football and we're confident about winning them and the arguments speak for themselves. the leaders

knew about them from the star sides on you haven't put anything for that you can't contradict us. and. put suddens lawyers maintain that the carmaker has removed the emissions cheating devices and argue that diesel owners cannot claim for compensation while continuing to drive the offending vehicles the heart of them to this day hundreds of thousands of vehicles are still in use by customers for us this means that there's no damage and therefore no reason for compensation these days hearing comes just a week after german prosecutors charged 3 v.w. executives including current boss happy with market manipulation accusing them of failing to inform shareholders about the financial impact of the emissions scandal a further indication that the costs of germany's biggest post-war industrial scandal are still being counted. south africa has surprised many

economists by posting a significant trade surplus for last month in july imports exports meaning a trade deficit of $245000000.00 but solid sales for mines help tip the balance in august leading to $450000000.00 it's positive news against the backdrop of a gloomy picture for south africans economy is slowing the government expects growth to fall below its 100 percent target this year unemployment is at 29 percent . that's the highest since 20132013 rolling power cuts hitting homes businesses thanks to problems that state energy company. in you weekly newsletter called from the desk of the president cyril ramaphosa has admitted economic growth will be below what it says the government is formulating a comprehensive growth strategy to take things to another level. well he says he'll

announce that strategy within the next few weeks in the meantime let's talk to tell correspondent. first of all what is the president's strategy going to be like she said there's so much pressure on him now and he's going to implement reforms to to lift business confidence and to boost growth and he got into next week because he no longer is long as there is no clarity of course that not friend mr confidence and the problem is a little bit is that the budgets of the government is already overstretched so it is not a lot of money to anything. even even to borrow so i have a problem of course i said is that they have to be smart to have to be smart on how to spend that money and what we know so far is that they're definitely going to look at the restructuring of state owned enterprises like. me talking about establishing an infrastructure funds to one test and to restructure and hopefully

more jobs as well so that's what we know so far i had hoped to be in a couple of weeks we know walkley i went to school economic growth strategy of south africa. the trade surplus that's just been announced that sounds promising or is that just a blip. yeah it sounds promising but actually south africa east facing increasing headwinds the economy entered its 7 months of a weakening cycle in september. business confidence is is the lowest has been in in 3 decades and you mentioned the unemployment figures of 29 percent seen rising deficit so yet it does was a little bit of positive news today from south africa south africa edition they need it but if you look at the kind of long term trend it has a good problem time and it for a short time yeah no government and our process if you need to intervene fast so

what needs to be done alice. yeah what needs to be done of course we need. inside africa i mean when we come up possibly keep president that's what he's been saying i'm going to explain this i'm going to make sure there's more investment in south africa so for that it is important. that there is it is a clear strategy so hopefully that will break some of the confidence back but as i said it is not going to be easy it's going to be an uphill battle we all eat only today heard again that there will be layoffs another big my here in south africa need to go and work very hard to turn the surrounds the battle in south africa continues thank you alex. monday was the last chance for kenyans to swap their old $1000.00 shilling bank notes for new ones a 1000 shillings is worth about 10 us dollars the new edition has been circulating since the beginning of june the idea was to flush out money being ordered by tax

evaders private business men and criminal groups those with large stashes of the old notes have to prove their legal origin that's forced some to get creative $1.00 man reported as counting out thousands of the old notes to buy a block from the sadie's non-sweet. gabby is tourist sector is reeling after british travel operated thomas cook went bankrupt last week with the season edgy to begin hotel known as a scrambling to cut their losses the holiday firm was one of the largest tourist operators in the small west african country gambia as government says it brought in over 40 percent of the nation's tourists. the tourist season is only a month away in gambia normally that would mean hotels would soon be bursting with british holiday makers but the recent collapse of thomas cook has put that in doubt hotel e.a.'s could only look on as their key source of custom disappeared. thomas cook. brings in about 57000

clients to this country. and that constitutes about 40 percent of the dishes this are numbers to this country so it is something that did not go down well with. not only the tourism fatality but because of his 2 great effects to the economy of the country more u.k. tourists arrive in gambia shores than from any other country without thomas cook's help the gambia hotel association says it will have to find alternative cheap ways to bring brits to the beaches otherwise hotel owners will have to make tough choices but if you set a school happened continues you would close one of the hotels. that we were building that. should have opened in. the opening because we are not too sure how we can fill up. the gambian government has organized to

emergency meetings aimed at finding solutions before november when the tourists had been due to arrive. stranded by telescopes bankruptcy may have to wait longer than expected to get their money britain's aviation regulator says the company has failed to provide all the information it needs to refund holiday makers it's a result of thank the customers may need to wait at least 2 months for their claims to be processed hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded after the collapse last week. german companies tend to be wary of investing in africa citing a range of hurdles for corruptions who infrastructure but once took based family owned a family owned business has found success in uganda cultivating flowers on the shores of lake the tory or the company has built a thriving business which is now exporting all over the world. to maybe a sea of green now but after a few months just in time for christmas the stems will be topped with rich red

flowers jovian on sukkot works at this farm in uganda preparing cuttings for the long journey to europe she's happy the job is providing her with a steady income. and one more to pay school fees to men and women parent. this is the work of a guy flower farm a huge area sitting directly on lake victoria here german companies select one is producing plants for export and they're not the only international player here he sed africa is valued by many as a location for flour production salaries are lower here and the climate is ideal but flour production in africa does have its problems there are accusations that too much pesticides often used production manager wilson cater says that's not the case we the production managers in the field. with dreams very much do use as many as possible chemicals. because that we we have the kind of

chemicals that we're using in this in this company all the. been listed and i've been approved by the european union. from uganda to stuttgart the headquarters of select to one of the twin brothers neilson pak lamb are the 3rd generation to run the family business in stuttgart the seedlings from uganda planted in the soil to take root the claims are often asked whether he wouldn't be more environmentally friendly to just do all the cultivating here. because you don't have to artificially heat in africa and basically you have an incredibly high growth per area is actually the case that production there has an ecologically lower c o 2 footprint than if the cuttings were produced here. with wife with a populist i think as women here put it the ability. to stuttgart headquarters is mainly used for developing and planning next year

a new office is being opened in ethiopia according to the entrepreneurs the cost pressure in the industry is enormous making the lower wages in east africa a major boon in africa we produce in east africa because the unit costs and the wages we pay for them fit well together and we also have enough manpower available it's the only way we can still be successful in the market and it's the only way we can sell our products at all i think that's going to. go. with sales increasing even in china they claim twins are proud of a company that's gone from humble beginnings to one that's growing around the world . business with.

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20 years after the war. 60 minutes. and on demand. language courses. video or you know. where. this is t.v. news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes national die. in cameroon weeklong talks to end the separatist crisis kicked off today but key stakeholders boycott it is the exercise do and what's at stake. we get it right country is back on track oh we get it wrong this country might fall off the precipice

so we really don't have much of a choice we've got to get it right and that's what the source.