Skip to main content

tv   Business - News  Deutsche Welle  August 21, 2020 8:15pm-8:31pm CEST

8:15 pm
partner with him she won. they also lost their next match. the world to. see and we have to see i don't know if i can say this on camera. because this will be more aggressive than. the german championship next month will be the 1st real test of their aggressiveness. this is the news in berlin for the entire new scene here i'm michael o'connor thanks so much for watching. what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d.w. world heritage 3 sixty's get the maps now. they've been robbed of their soul
8:16 pm
that's what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe . lift wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with the stone north from africa. shown soul starts september 7th on t.w. . the fact that. the baseband may have been lifted but south africa's restrictions on alcohol sales a setback years of progress in getting black growers into the country thanks wind market. us democratic presidential hopeful joe biden is promising a way out of the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic can change
8:17 pm
in their. faces day to day business on what's in berlin is great to have you with us over the past decade block wine growers have successfully a stop place themselves in the cape wine industry traditionally dominated by whites but despite being left at this week south africa's 5 month ban on the sale of alcohol has threatened the transformation. the 7 sisters winery in the cape wind lands when owner vivian kleynhans entered the wine market in 2003 she was among the 1st wine makers of color in south africa the farm put an end to a life of poverty but its future is now uncertain due to the coronavirus pandemic for much of the past 5 months the sale of alcohol was banned in south africa to keep hospital beds empty for covert patients the ban was lifted this week but the damage is already done for winemakers like clean hands. income wise through tourism and wine sales you know clearly in south africa we don't have
8:18 pm
a footprint in the rider off south africa but only on the farm so it may say we won't have any feed coming to the farm and now wind sales switch means that we won't have any income and i mean literally now. the alcohol ban jeopardize a transformation that has been slow from the start. currently there are only about $65.00 black going wineries with a market share of about 3 percent. 20 peterson has an organization that supports black winemakers she fears that the small amount of progress will be lost the all the generation brand is off color so we don't have that you know ration of wealth we don't have that 6 months because we can not operate and i think that is the difference the difference is not in how we. currently it's about having that surety
8:19 pm
that you can still function and you can still run your operations brands don't have that the after effects of the alcohol ban will be long lasting and potentially devastating for the industry analysts anticipate a massive die off a small wineries with tens of thousands of jobs lost those likely to survive are large export focused wineries like klein and salt so in style and bosch the estate's marketing manager kareena gal's sees her company well positioned to weather the storm. so we you know the fortunate position that almost 70 percent of the business he said exports. so that is carrying us at the moment because south africa it's a dire situation in. clean hands wasn't able to pay wages during the ban but she tried to help her staff with food parcels giving up is not an option. the farm is her grandchildren safety net against the poverty she grew up in looking to the
8:20 pm
future clean hands is now thinking about the 1st firing by growing vegetables. well on this let's bring in our correspondent in cape town alice funny how the it's worth going to why this ban was brought in in the 1st place isn't it alice this was not necessarily about preventing the spread of coronavirus was it no it wasn't it wasn't a crime to hire a survey a mother of all there actually was to keep hospital beds for free south africa doesn't have the most triggers and will the people that drink alcohol here are heavy drinkers and that means that we see a lot of trauma cases in hospitals linked to alcohol abuse and i'm not talking just about traffic accidents but of stabbings shootings sexual violence a mystic vitamins happens because people aren't drunk so that's one of the main reasons why governments have look we don't want to overburden our already overstretched health system you nor during this corona time as so so let's not
8:21 pm
drink for a while there so the aim really is to protect hospitals but we have seen an economic impact is the policy seen as a successful tradeoff between those 2 things. now that's that's hard to say in advance a lot as well on who you speak to because yes definitely my makers have suffered also other small kind of croft beer businesses as a tribe in kind of small ship industry here they've been suffering restaurants and bars of course as well they have we don't fall while now but they can serve all the holes and also have lost income. from that extra revenue for the government and government needs to tax revenue and we've also seen illicit trade there's been a troubling black market for for alcohol and also cigarettes because those were also banned so economically it's not been good but then again we did see trauma cases going down there were 50 percent less trauma cases in hospitals and we
8:22 pm
also went down crime so actually not having out whole made south african pharma while much much safer and what the government not i has say and even the liquor industry that's very happy of open up now is we do have to question the relationship we have in south africa with alcohol and we do need to look into more programs to promote responsible drinking. in cape town thank you very much for joining us on this us now democratic candidate joe biden has pledged to get the coronavirus crisis under control and rebuild the us economy in tatters if it becomes president but are americans convinced he's the man to do it well one county in wisconsin has backed every winning presidential candidate since 1964 but this year the winner is harder to call. they were punching the air on wall street this week after b.s. and p.
8:23 pm
500 reached an all time high the economic roller coaster ride left corporate america feeling bullish. but across the country in wisconsin many are scratching their heads like dairy farmer. she says that despite the damage of trade wars on the coronavirus she is still undecided. i need the democrats to step up. and when they are like 0 7 i don't know people vote for us we are not offering them anything useful i mean all of our farms are going bankrupt because we cannot compete in this increasingly consolidated economy and they're not offering us anything to do to fix that but. finding solutions in an increasingly divided america is the challenge of this election 12000000 people are out of work the economy took
8:24 pm
a historic plunge in the last quarter 19 has brought the country to its knees yet donald trump's appeal still holds even for this festival organizer who voted for barack obama in 2012. and i feel as if. 100 percent something dramatic happens because he has a record now it's proven what he's done seems good but there are many who see the president's failure to take the pun demick seriously has exacerbated the crisis i feel that the stakes are too high i feel that donald trump has been a worse president than i could have imagined. the world's biggest economy faces its toughest turnaround since the great depression and the disconnect between wall street and main street seems whiter than ever. well let's bring in our reporter chelsea delaney on news on as he saw in that report there are differing
8:25 pm
views on president trump's performance on the economy what does the data actually show well this is a really difficult question because president trumpet obviously like to be judged on the prepared to make economy his critics would say that he's made the economy worse through his this mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis but what the data shows is that the u.s. economy was doing quite well before the pandemic unemployment was at a 50 year low wages were rising and that obviously has all changed tremendously now due to the pandemic millions of people are out of work millions of people are facing eviction but what was true throughout his presidency and also through the pandemic is that we've seen income inequality really wide and in the u.s. to even his triumphs the corporate tax rate cut the booming u.s. stock market those really point to differing winners and we were losers in the united states and you know the picture is quite bleak looking now 7 compared with the start of the year joe biden says he's going to fix that what do we know about
8:26 pm
how he's going to do that he's put out 2 really big plans the 1st he's called by american and that's really a play on donald trump's america 1st policy this is plan to remake manufacturing in the united states the other part is this 2 trillion dollar climate investment package that he's proposed that would include things like greening the electricity sector remaking a lot of buildings to make them more energy efficient so he does have a plan to also a deal to the more progressive side of the democratic party but all of this obviously will also depend on what happens with congressional races in every campaign is obviously filled with promises whether they're actually able to follow through about it's going to depend in part on congress the whole world is watching this presidential race not least the u.s. is trading what do you know about biden's position on trade. so we do know that he is also very critical of china so we might not actually see much of a difference in the approach there he also has said that china has been very unfair
8:27 pm
in their trade practices that they steal u.s. technology so you may continue to see a bit of a hardline approach on that but he likely will be more diplomatic in the approach you may not see the same sort of tweets and things like that being thrown around but he also is likely to have a more multilateral approach so things like you know appealing more to america's allies like the e.u. or its partners and asia to really form a force that would be able to negotiate better with china so maybe not a huge change in the way that they approach china but certainly a more diplomatic approach to me seems like the 2 options all very different chelsea delaney thanks a lot for bringing us up to date. now public hospital doctors in nairobi have gone on strike to protest against delayed salaries and a lack of protective equipment for handling covered 19 patients police used tear
8:28 pm
gas against dozens of activists gathered to demonstrate against corruption in the film and to protective gear kenyans have expressed outrage on social major after anti corruption agency the anti-corruption agency said it was investigating the theft of millions of dollars worth of government medical supplies. and that's all from me and the business team here in berlin if you do want more from his do check out our website d.w. dot com slash business we're also on facebook and twitter just such a day to be a business and you're short of finance thanks for joining us and take.
8:29 pm
the fight against illegal logging in ghana lumber and exotic woods are among the country's most important exports but illegal logging is threatening the. tree population now and up is helping to curb the ruthless exploitation and to give sustainable forestry
8:30 pm
a chance. for growth. in 60 minutes. story some people will go for information provided. the means they want to express g.w. on facebook twitter and coke addict in touch from the us. this is due to the news africa coming up on the program today told schools to reopen in africa call shrooms remain empty in most countries on the continent told health officials say the prolonging closures of schools is harmful to students. at corruption in south africa is so rise so rampant we'll see how it's even brought
8:31 pm
being bedad off their dignity.

19 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on