me too for is for. is for. beethoven 2020 for 250th anniversary year on do you. google is asian is being put through its paces there's a whole world of job opportunities out there if you're willing to move abroad and have the financial means but a tiny little virus has infected the globe's highly and it's wind supply chains that flow through china revealing how vulnerable many companies have become on the move new opportunities and new threats the coronavirus has so far wiped

7 trillion dollars off wild stock since their record highs mid february the outbreak began in china which still has by far the most cases chinese factories don't just churn out cheap plastic exports anymore though they supply vital components to the tech sector automobile industry add pharmaceutical companies and the chinese a lead is in artificial intelligence and robotics so the partial shutdown of the chinese economy there was introduced to stem the virus is having a knock on effect for a colonies around the world. it's unprecedented i can't recall anything like it on our planet. when the call of yours if the coronavirus gathers be cripples more and more countries and in the worst case we could be facing a global economic situation like we had in 2008 and 9.

years into the oppose it here we're very optimistic we think it will be over in one or 2 months even it here 4 by. management consultant fun fun is currently pursuing crisis management she and her team advise 60 german firms that do business in china. they're much in demand right now because covert 19 is causing havoc fanfan is visiting a client in a small town in northern germany the shloka group based in hires them it's an automotive parts supplier that had to halt production at its facility near beijing for 2 weeks things are just starting up again but with precautions in place. for our.

people so. far. we're back up to 50 or 70 percent capacity so far and we don't yet know when we'll reach 100 percent because we can't get the staff back into the factory yet. the drop in revenue and therefore the economic hit amounts to several 1000000 euros. fung found in her boss michelle bormann are looking for ways to soften the blow. if as to who would try to organize help for clients as quickly as possible for example rent reductions or rebates or stretching repayment deals on bank loans. is there again another problem is that demand within china has been collapsing and with it demand for goods from germany carmakers and parts suppliers here are

suffering to. automobile and car sales in the 1st 2 weeks of february in china were down 92 percent so you can imagine the impact on the industry it's a disaster we don't yet know what the consequences will be us for exactly which ups the. international supply chains are collapsing or at risk you can't make a car if the gearbox isn't available. says 8 plants in europe have to offset the production halt in china. not for much longer says the optimist fung fung. but c.e.o. your been slow to is not convinced. this is why it's unprecedented i can't recall anything like it on our planet in my view when we've got through this and i hope we deal with it sensibly i think we'll have to think about what needs to change in the future. for example will there

recalls to curtail international business travel. fun fun usually travels back and forth between germany and china spending 2 weeks at a time in each country. she has a team of 30 in china but for now she can't go and see her colleagues or her family . so she communicates with them online from her base in hamburg. video calls are the order of the day to the company's offices in china poland bug area and spain. me in will. be. the corona virus outbreak may have started in china but it's now become a global problem. if you must know we've shipped

a bunch of masks to our offices in china in spain and italy masks are running short . we have to review the situation every day and be prepared to react fast and do what has to be done most. funk funk believes the tough measures imposed by the government in china have been effective. in order you know hobart is in germany and europe this is so much freedom. people don't wear face masks. it's a different mentality in a way of life. 50 and that's why the numbers are rising day by day. yet in tough man in any case the virus is threatening not just the health of individuals around the world but the health of the global economy.

well some historians say globalization started in china over 2000 years ago with the old silk road chinese luxury goods started appearing on markets as far away as road it also saw merchants and migrants on the move in more recent times a rush for raw materials as the movement of workers is nations trying to feed their hunger for economic growth by sending their nationals abroad to dig up other country's resources here's a quick look at how labor migration has developed from the ninety's seventy's up until today. in the 1970 s. large multinationals sent stuff abroad. they were tasked with up turning raw materials for production back home or conquering markets in the main it was u.s. companies that sent their employees overseas often to europe. starting in 1990 companies became increasingly international they moved their production lines into regions with low labor costs the parent company sent employees all over the

world and well trained workers from emerging economies was sought in europe and the u.s. . in the past decade transnational investments have risen. complex production processes have emerged requiring global supply chains. digitalisation has led to closer networking. nowadays companies are competing for skilled workers from all over the world. and now the next industrial revolution is upon us factories run by robots machines that communicate with each other not only doing all the heavy lifting but also believing us of more monday tasks in the workplace only thing is the accelerating automation is set to eliminate millions of jobs optimists say it'll create just as many new ones a trade unionists. so look for the stop the layoffs hands off our

jobs we're not going to let them steal our futures colleagues are you going to go. home and sit says bad guy is ready to do battle times are getting hard for germany's union tens of thousands of auto workers jobs are under threat. in 10 or 15 years the auto sector could change beyond recognition would you agree with that. 100 percent nothing's going to stay the same we'll have an entirely different auto industry just think of the digital automobile but also the entire complex of production sustainable production c o 2 free production they'll be so many extreme changes as much of a game changer as the switch from horses to motors and what will that mean.

vacillate between optimism worry and anger i'm angry because there's another wave of relocations abroad cost cutting programs and announcements about how many people will be fired and that all has nothing to do with the transition we can ensure sustainable mobility made in germany as an export champion instead they all look at how they can get it done for even less. there's a paradigm change underway in the car industry as it stops making fossil fuel driven cars and converts to electric drive electric cars have fewer parts and more advanced technology automobiles are becoming mobile computers and robots are increasingly doing production work. workers fear they could soon be replaced by machines because our industry is in the process of a structural transformation we can't prevent it. it was asian but the transition to a c o 2 free environmentally friendly technology and we don't want to leave there this

is the what are people on the production line saying. anyone who works on developing or assembling internal combustion engines right now is obviously very worried but someone who is involved in classical production line work assembling cars says whether a car has an electric or a fuel driven motor really doesn't matter. how do you turn a diesel engine developer into a software developer. we need something akin to a literacy campaign for digitalisation we have to know what we mean when we're talking about ai you need to get a feel for it and building on that foundation you can train people inside half a year you can turn someone who understands a bit about digitalisation into a software developer. but it's not hard to imagine someone who's perhaps an older worker who spent 20 or 30 years making combustion engines who suddenly confronted

with having to deal with ai and having to undergo a complete rethink and start anew that would be a real problem for many people. we need a system that nurtures further training from the 1st stage to the last in a company and that people are inducted according to their affinity for further training and for those who've got the kind of fear you've just described and that's an awful lot of people we need very specialized programs for those people so change as an opportunity every technological transformation leads to something new entirely new occupations and business opportunities spring up but it has to be done properly. thanks for joining us. this time the questions needed longer answers. now to someone who's seize the opportunities of our globalized world and electrical engineer from india and go to a must as degree in the states and instead of gravitating towards silicon valley

opted for germany it used to be almost impossible to get a job here is a migrant i can vouch for that but europe's largest economy is suffering from a massive skills shortage and has loosened the rules. electrical engineer ranjit brahman partly from india has chosen to work in a small town in southwestern germany. is old and quaint and ranjit brahman partly lives here with his wife and their daughter. he works for her to electronic and particularly enjoys his time in the company's testing lab he went to graduate school and worked in the united states but eventually decided to cross the atlantic i definitely thought u.s. forces europe by i always compare challenge i already thought it was

a language barrier but when i played for jobs it was it was not that hard if you have good skills also the work life balance is better in europe i thought and there are also there are so many companies which are flexible. on operate throughout europe like what a trike i mean even were even have an office in india. components manufactured in asia such as these inductors are delivered here brahman partly does quality control and also works on improving products. his daily routine is pretty flexible. he can decide when to work in the lab the store room and the office. as long as he gets his work done and delivers test results. the reason i chose to work here is that the freedom you get to work you can choose whatever part to reach that core so that's what our manager and our company and courageous and

that's what i like to work there are weekly meetings to discuss new products that are like tonic makes a whole range of components including transformers capacitors and. lamps and it's keen to hire top notch engineers from around the world i was going to thankful because it's really hard to find really qualified people not really not in a big city here it's just in the middle of nowhere here. and so i was going to think of that ranch at one point to come thought about going to small 3 or 5. and then after austin reticent years or so impressed here and. i have a lot of experience from that i see many factories it's much more experienced than me but it's also important because i don't want to i own people have less experience i really want to be a better. half the members of bremen pollies team a little like tonic are from abroad. for him it was easy to get permission to come and work in germany he qualified for an e.u.

blue card it offers skilled workers who are university graduates from non e.u. states the right to work and stay in the european union. and the new law in germany the skilled immigration act even extends the definition of qualified professionals to include people without a university degree but to have acquired certain for cation training certificates. when you get this blue card then you don't have a restriction so you can work for 4 years and then. you get your this blue card is blue card so you can basically work in any part of europe under this program about 50000 skilled workers came to germany last year. ranjit brahman polley is considering moving to one of his company's other locations perhaps but then barcelona and says he hopes he'll be able to take his plants with him. for many indians choose to move to the u.s. or britain for work above all because of the english language germany is still

struggling to attract highly qualified workers from abroad and as we heard in that report has now started making it even easier for nani you citizens with sort of the skills to come here but that new law was a long time in the making germany have been reluctant to see lots of foreigners settle here but the reality is different much of the german population has foreign roots where do the many immigrants come from and how well do they fare. migrants in germany the fact. is gemini the most popular european destination for immigrants yes it is one in 4 german residents has what austerity is here to an immigrant background that means at least one parent was born a foreigner how does germany rank internationally in terms of numbers of migrants in 2nd place behind the u.s. traditional immigration countries like canada australia and switzerland all lag

behind gemini and most of the migrants refugees know in 2018 most migrants in germany came from romania poland and belgariad the most common motive for the move better economic opportunity. do they find work you know of the roughly 2300000 unemployed in germany almost half have a migrant background their unemployment rate is twice as high as that of nonimmigrant why is that. the most common reason lack of gemini language skills the other reason is discrimination applicants with turkish and arabic names have a worse chelm civilian job candidates with the same skills but with german names have a much higher chance according to studies on migrants wellcome germany yes and no 52 percent of germans think there are too many migrants

but 65 percent say that migration brings economic benefits. is the term immigrant backgrounds problematic yes the definition is inconsistent in german statistics it generally includes 2nd generation immigrants in other countries such as britain and poland is usually only foreign born that is 1st generation residents who were classified as migrants. malaysia is fast growing economy is attracting increasing numbers of migrants from neighboring countries but it's not always their own choice to uproot themselves and leave their homes some of been driven out of their countries like the man in our next report that puts them in a vulnerable position they come from an extremely traumatic situation only to end up in low qualified jobs living and working under appalling conditions.

his mother barbara nitish i was born in charge pew a fishing village and me and mom saddled up in the woods and of the. things. that seem there were people burning down our homes we ran outside in fear then we saw a fire engine coming which we thought would put out the blaze it might they might be. on the save me. from. the mother for that but instead they sprayed petrol on the burning homes and just made the fire bigger i was forced to leave my home and myanmar without any idea of what to do or where to go. in.

odyssey began in 2014 along with thousands of other injured he fled the brutal military crackdown in his homeland me and man he managed to get in south smuggled into malaysia it was a terrible journey many of his travelling companions died on the way. gone we lost everything that our home our country our identity. and now we're forced to squat on other people's land that we don't even know. 50 years after fleeing his homeland adversity is still struggling to build a life in malaysia. it's wife and children are sick the money he earns is barely enough for the family to survive on malaysia has not ratified the geneva convention

on refugees that means people like him have no status no rights and no protection. it's hard because i can't work illegally so i take our jobs and just try to get by . i have. but if i fall sick employers just fire me and then i'm out of a job again. abus city excess immigrants are treated poorly even though they make up a key part of the workforce. the capital kuala lumpur has been undergoing a building boom for years malaysia's economy relies on millions of low paid workers from poorer neighboring countries some are refugees others are economic migrants

who come hoping for a better life. but. the reality once they arrive is very different thousands of them end up living in so-called consulates illegal shanty settlements that spring up next to major building sites here many unskilled day laborers from abroad risked their lives day in day out for a few $100.00 a month. entrepreneur mahaney her son understands the difficulties i myself the money came to my niece in 2000 and. 2 in. after the war will be accomplished something to call something i started to develop the family the many reasons why it was funny that i saw that the margin would. be really suffering did you do life when they want to buy something the problem is

that many of them can't pay for things are lining up to 4000000 migrants are thought to be living illegally in malaysia without residency papers or work permits that means they can't open a bank account. the basic idea is very simple we want. to bring the offload people to online the real not to bank reo marketplace really truly. insurance companies don't cause airlines bus ticket companies to sell their produce in a marketplace saw go down my road workers can buy a and b. to us but at the moment it's money transfers abroad that make up his core business the app cuts out the middlemen who take a big cut for themselves nearly 100000 migrants are now using my cash on line like has done most of them come from bangladesh. private companies are jumping into the breach where the state has failed to act for years the government has been

promising to clamp down on the exploitation of migrant workers. but still nothing has been done to introduce a minimum wage ensure safety standards or provide information on workers' rights. reinjure refugee abu sidique has long since given up hope that things here will improve he wants to leave malaysia as soon as possible. a letter there i'm hoping we can reset all in america i hear there's good medical care there i hope they can help my family god willing. like many here abu diggs dream would be to return to his homeland me and man but he struggles to believe that that will ever be possible. the challenges facing

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