after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th w. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see myself as the kids find strength and grow. my own objects of america to work of. the books on youtube. the. council's 1300 flights a 2 day strike action by the times a cabin crew leaves 180000 passengers stranded we go to our correspondent at frankfurt airport for the latest. also coming up here ways role in germany's 5 g. infrastructure remains undecided as berlin is weighing up risks against potential

benefit. to do business i want to get johnson berlin good to have you with us you're flying from or to germany today better brace yourself cabin crew to german flag ship carrying. a sausage a 2 day strike today $700.00 out of $3000.00 planned flights are canceled another $600.00 are to be axed on friday in total 180000 passengers are expected to be hits the walkout the strike is organized by the u.s. trade union that represents loved ones a cabin crew it wants higher expenses and allowances flight attendant for flight attendants this as well as better access to regular employment for workers. and for more i'm joined now by my colleague chelsea delaney was standing by for us at frankfurt airport which of course is germany's main aviation hop and home base here in germany chelsea what's going on there this morning with so many flights

being canceled. it's surprisingly quiet here at the airport today i think that's in part because look tonga has been really warning about this for the past week they've offered to rebook passengers they've offered to let them take the train instead so i think this is pretty well telegraphed to customers at the same time they are expecting the strike to start doing rallies today in munich and tomorrow here in frankfurt about would certainly increase some of the activity here at the airport. so what exactly does cabin crew want what's at stake for them in the strike. the cabin crew has been asking for for wage increases they wanted a 1.8 percent wage increase and also some changes to pensions study more study access for part time workers this also has to do with the union itself tons of says they aren't recognizing this union as a proper union because of their election earlier this year and that is also part of

these negotiations is recognizing the union itself. what about this isn't the 1st right i mean the last regular you have dates back to 2015 and it lasted a week that was the longest in the company's history so far how is this strike going to hit carious bottom line. i think it will certainly have have a significant impact in that last strike in 2015 they estimated that it cost them 10000000 euros a day at the same time is really under a lot of pressure they reported their 3rd quarter earnings this morning and profit fell about 8 percent because costs are already rising so this is definitely a bad time to have to be bearing these additional costs for the company all right chelsey do reporting for us from frankfurt airport. today to day walkouts thank you so much. well this week marks says he is since the fall of the berlin

wall it was a momentous event to pave the way towards german reunification and transformed the fate of many talents on both sides of the iron curtain one of them was its location in the former west germany like many places near the german border itself had years of economic neglects while the country was divided on extra ports takes a look at how businesses in the town have embraced the opportunities offered by reunification. it's midnight and the logistics center for $24.00 plus in part has spread it is buzzing $750.00 tons of products are transept in the warehouse every night the products come to this transfer point from all over germany to be loaded on to other trucks their arrivals and departures are timed decisively to save money 20 years ago peter paul man was a logistics pioneer in the half felt region to the dogs by the time this area was

pretty remote without a lot of road infrastructure but that has changed dramatically for us in the last 20 years when it comes to shipping the road network has been built out now and it's very expensive. there but also the boardwalk and. several highways cross here there are important connections in all directions now all the big players in logistics are in the region. here at the former inner german border the east german watchtower and barbed wire have been turned into a memorial band who works for the local government here he's responsible for welcoming new companies to the area he experienced the border here opening in november of 1909 but these days he has other problems in his district there's hardly any more room for new investors. the to be. helping those companies is getting more and more difficult because there are fewer properties large enough to serve big companies and it's hard to find suitable personnel when there's not an employment rate of only 4 percent. of. the properties that

companies look for are close to the highway like in the time of fleet a valid there's a lot going on in the business parks here near the logistic centers there are plenty of small and midsize businesses like this alex tronics company in the past employees here built simple switch boxes but today they're pretty complex automation technology. employees from former east germany so for us it was definitely a positive development today it is no trace of the former german german border in this area. back to the logistics firm $24.00 plus the company's a testing ground for new software and that just sticks solutions everyone here is thinking about digitalisation barbed wire and border walls were forgotten here long ago. while about 2000000 east germans headed west off to the wall came

down among them many qualified women but not many of them made it into west german company boardrooms valla did spend facility and caught up with her out the former border crossing at. you grew up with trouble you drove a lot walked and then suddenly you ended up with b.m.w. that must have been a shock it took i guess 6 years before i had my 1st b.m.w. when i came to. munich my 1st car there was a course 10 years old when i bought it and that was already it for me i have been on the off. but i was always thrilled by car. even as a kid even as a kid i had more matchbox then. i have 2 older brothers so that there was no option so the male dominated car industry wasn't wasn't really

a challenge for. i wasn't afraid of it i i knew. i have to speak the language of the other so i know more about the horse power than about the colors of the car so to say it was so fascinating to see that every car on the production line is different not only by color but also by interior and. in east germany that you had 3 weeks where the same time in the same color with the same options was produced and then it was changed and you could also not choose which options were in the car that you got delivered so one thing that doesn't seem to have changed is that there are so few women working in your area and so few women in leadership positions folks one is working very hard on diversity and inclusion in the whole focus one group we do have a chief human resource officer at bentley and now just recently also

i was her subject. is a woman that was appointed so i'm not the only one anymore and i'm glad for that and i hope that this development continues so would you say you've profited from a major crisis of a system twice now the fall of the wall and then he's ok. i think it's fair to say that yes. i would probably not be in the position that i would now be followed to the zoo. i do think that. the changes in the system of the world came down and. pushed my career and in 2 instances. and how are you dealing with you know there's still a lot to do. when i joined in general in 2016. i said to my colleagues it will take 8 to 10 years to clean out have you been able

to benefit from your fair. push towards immobility for example i mean it was quite late 1st one was also in the past in many instances often a fast follower but yes i think. awareness of climate change and gate where there are 2 factors those 2 is thanks and i was targeted towards immobility so what's the future of mobility by 2040 we will have a lot of i don't know with cars driving around and what about women in leadership positions i hope that doesn't take till 2000 for the until we have reached. parity . in the workforce. sluggish internet connection is one of the big threats to german growth today such a building a next generation 5 g. network will be essential berlin is still debating whether chinese take from sure way can be part of that effort but critics say beijing may use your ways access to

industrial espionage or to disrupt vital infrastructure. found drunk fake is a legend in china. he wants to counter widespread claims and accusations that his electronics empire is too closely involved with the powers that be in beijing. you it's a guy selling knowledge titian's have to talk about that we have to market persuasive products they are our best argument for all. the controversy is about the future of the internet while way is a global leader in 5 g. technology which radically speeds up data transfer that boosts capacities to steer and monitor citizens and traffic something that makes 5 g. dangerous. only you know of course we can guarantee germany that we won't pass on any data that's a promise or for womanish role model away produces marvelous surveillance technologies such as the city of the future where nothing goes unseen the chinese

police state exploits the technology ardently but chancellor merkel has ruled out excluding quality entirely from germany's own 5 g. network resistance is mounting though even in her own party it is for me it's about huawei without having any leverage as a company being completely at the mercy of the chinese state leaderships that would mean our networks weren't being run by huawei but by the chinese state and the communist party of china that doesn't correspond with our ideas of security and confidentiality berlin is still weighing risks and benefits but for now huawei is rolling germany's 5 g. infrastructure remains undecided. that's your business update this morning here on the w. from me on the business team and thanks for watching. carefully

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impenetrable border between east and west berlin began to crumble and in a surreal and giddy few hours east berlin poured into west berlin the 1st step towards this country's reunification. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the wall demise berlin has events happening all over the city in historic locations and one of them is the east side gallery and my colleague david levitz is down there now for us hi david can you tell us just where you are exactly and what it might have been like 30 years ago. well the east side gallery is the biggest stretch of the berlin wall that is still standing there very few of them and this is the biggest and tonight it's not just a wall it is a projection screen for a film about the berlin wall where.