coincidence. where the improbable happened. before us was lifting up the creation of our solar system without a planet is a bit like winning the lot of raising. money for your unique story september 18th on g.w. . this is news africa coming up on the program zimbabwe's famous feast on sets in the future black farmers are worried about losing gal-on the gap because it's unclear how the government's plans to compensate local white farmers who lost yes all are still losing and our correspondent in harare told us what's at stake for the country's. production it growing exporting farmers the like this one in the northern involved with could think that if the government efforts to mend relations

with former whites will make fun of or lost their land in the ne 2003 years before . also coming up on the program. military or civilian all maybe a technocrat millions of still did need to lead the transitional team after yet another country transition to a stable civilian group. i . your welcome to the program we start of in zimbabwe where i'm citee is growing among blacks they are worried about losing land that was on the catered to them by former president during his law before or during the time thousands of white farmers were forced of the lads in an effort to redress colonial era. fast forward

to earlier this year zimbabwean governments are now as there will be $3500000000.00 in compensation to local white farmers but some black farmers see the move trucking on a policy that politicians have repeatedly meant was irreversible. norman cheering has been anxious ever since the government announced it will return land that was taken from former white farmers during the land reform in the early 2000. and 4 to one others were located 60 head to plots at the 20000 head to forest state in the district of missouri about 100 kilometers north of zimbabwe's capital harare this place has been their home for the past 20 years the farmers apprehensive and in view their move to compensate former white farmers is a reversal of former president robert mugabe and the reforms you know now we are

anxious and it is painful to lose learned that we have settled we have been here for a long time and we can't contemplate going back to where we came from we cannot imagine starting again we have invested in this place and we cannot allow that energy in time to go to waste you know. this is when government sees a black farmers have nothing to worry about and that will thirty's i just implementing the law and not reversing the gains of the countries lieberson was known as the 1st and 2nd chimurenga this is not really. the reform program and was the prime cause for the for. the 1st 3 clinton reform program that we under him you know we wanted. to go to that aspect. according to

a government state to the body proper assessments will be met before competition can be conceived that agriculture was once the big one of the economy but went into freefall after their whites kill grabbing land from white farmers black farmers who then took over their land often had lead to experience in commercial funny. production it exporting farms in like this one in the northern part of zimbabwe could pick up even government efforts to mend relations with former white commercial farmers who lost their land in the ne 2000 years food court battles ahead ensued for the past 2 decades german national and reach one petzold lost part of his land at the forest he states in 2001 he is cautiously optimistic about the government's recent announcement. challenges of his about when government

and the international center for settlement of investment disputes and won his case . yet the government. it certainly did so i have a big 8. groups there however. it will be a government only the. you're looking. at zimbabwe's government sees only 3 percent of those who received lent like nominated india will be affected by the new announcement. our correspondents privileged machinery who sent us of reports joins me now from harare zimbabwe privileged why exactly are black farmers like norman worried about losing their lands to white farmers is that the government's position. why are you stemming from the fact that these farmers or couponing land or farms that we're initially. international by electoral agreement so according to the zimbabwe

constitution it says that these land was and it was not supposed to be disturbed and other law it's also sees that's a different matter that may have lost their land during the land reform program they are supposed to be compensated through either monetary or have their land returned back so these farmers like you terry because the athir in that probably did may lose this land that they had occupied since 200-2000 back to their original or not as who are protected under the international bilateral agreements that zimbabwe has with other countries you'll be telling us a bit more about that because on the contrary over the weekend a white farmer alleges he was dreaming of his land by a block farm out what's going on here yes. it's quite

a surprise because. and invasions and if the actions of white farmers had stopped but then this is coming as a surprise because these farmers being infected from the land they are saying that . one of. the former senior government official holds title to this land through the oil for litters that one is given when the up lightly and the government saw the disposition of approached their farmer. over the weekend and say that you has your 24 hours to move out and he is now this is he is not with the new one so it is. happening at a time when government is seeing. their families that lost their land during the land reform program so it's such

a contradiction yeah which definitely makes it even more confusing because here's the thing the government does not have the 3500000000 dollars to compensate white farmers so it was raise funds from international donors now how feasible is that when international property rights are still being violated it mix the pew to the international community to raise these 3500000000 it might want to ask because i think it is then going to be difficult for the government to be able to approach any fun when. in farms and that failure to respect international provides right so it would be very difficult for the government to be able to. maneuver and raise these $3500000000.00 it's needs to pay off their families that lost land during the lender of $4.00 will be given tops on that privilege it was shown to review your

correspondent in harare zimbabwe thank you for your time. who will lead the transitional team in mali a civilian or soldier after 3 days of intensive talks in the capital that's the mixed reactions in response to echo us calling for a civilian led transition the west african group set a deadline they wanted an interim president named by tuesday representatives of all political parties trade unions and civil society organizations about it temporary constitution but many questions remain unanswered. long lines outside burma calls international congress center it's a final session everybody wants to be here for this special moment. i don't diminish you ladies and gentleman what you have achieved all of the hopes

for a new democratic secular and prosperous molly based on work social justice and equality to get over this is to see if you're going to get on this note of hope i declare the national consultation closest. to see that there's a consensus was. a moment to take stock after a hard and controversial discussions above all the question who will be the president during the transition period. gundy they are going to do any candidate wanting to be transitional president or weiss president must meet the following conditions being a person from civil society all the military that's about it this year. yet this statement flies in the face of the conditions set by the best african eco bus group it wants a civilian as

a transitional president. i since 1901 a small group of men have dominated the in politics malise young people and most of the to rake in the last have little face that those individuals can bring any change in. this field as it must at the head of the transition should be from the military given the security situation only the army can handle this it could be the soldiers are the people on the ground and they know the field and i think it is. when we meet that. the country is divided mass demonstrations by the m 5 opposition movement most of the military coup on 18 stuff. august which forced the resignation of president cater by one set as chief their common goal mali in society is split into rival bickering groups them 5 movement is already refusing to accept that dream act he says you know what this is about the fact that the

transitional president must be a civilian and nonmilitary individual otherwise he'll be subjected to sanctions spite of us there are much more broken. leaders from the regional bloc are due to discuss the paper to somebody in the gun i in capital acra on tuesday. that's where we draw the curtains on today's show for more stories go check out our website do w dot com slash africa or visit our facebook and twitter pages as i mentioned at the start of the show. hopeful they got to move forward despite the needs a school because it is the 4th such as the country actually of independence 60 years ago we'll see you next time i find out.

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be possible if it weren't for beethoven's legacy the movie a world without beethoven premieres this week here on you know. it's one of arts and culture thank you now you play and one of the world's very top orchestras it has to be said so for you this idea of a world without beethoven must sound like i'm nightmare but what about the average person on the street who might say it world without of course i mean we know who beethoven was the musicians do most of your viewers do probably as well but if there are people out there who don't they still would probably know how to answer if i think they probably go so they do know beethoven although they may not think they do so of course as wynton marsalis says in the film he says there are people out there that don't know beethoven then they have a good life too but this is what this film is all about ok well let's check out a little bit more the movie a world without beethoven premieres this wednesday here on c.w.

and on amazon prime marking 250 years since the composer's birth. what's with the well be like cat beethoven never existed. a world without beethoven i conti from begin to imagine. he probably spilled this coffee and accidently went all that sounds good without him there might never have been any of the legendary brokerage suite all know and love in a way his famous 5th symphony was a precursor he only needed 4 notes to create an entire musical cosmos. the rest is rock history. that also being no film schools without beethoven no chance in much of his work he

experimented with syncopation to jazz trumpet player wynton marsalis that's all the proof we need that the german compose it was way ahead of his time. we didn't like that and. i love that. it's impossible to overstate beethoven's legacy he influenced jazz pop film music concert performance political anthems conceptual music and even musical meter quite simply he changed the world forever. we're talking about the near d.w. documentary a world without beethoven now there are some people might be surprised to see we're rock stars like an anderson from jethro tull and a movie about beethoven can you fill us in a little bit more on why well many say that beethoven wrote the 1st rock rest ever

4 notes yeah and well it can be interpreted maybe in those days you know beethoven's a rock. as wynton marsalis a day to them he was the man. and a lot of a lot of rock guitarists and composers they dare to take just 4 notes for their rockers some of the most famous rock for a survey done done done done 4 notes and that's something that people didn't do before beethoven was around they absolutely did not they don't was it was totally new to them and he started a symphony with 4 notes in the minor key what a shock was that that hadn't happened for us it's normal we know it but but in those days it was a bit of a shock and that that was what beethoven did he push boundaries and today there are stars who make so much money with just 34 notes rio for orchestra still has to play all the notes now film composer john williams you know a lot of notes he's also in this documentary he's the guy behind movie scores including star wars. jaws harry potter quite

a big coup to get him on the movie and it wasn't planned but you ended up playing with him how did that happen well spotted as a tiny clip where the 4th quarter you're obviously recognized we were there interviewing him which as a horn player was a total career highlight and the boston pops are playing at tanglewood that night a big music festival in the states and one of their horns went sick and they called me up in you know is this is where you want to come play i didn't know half the stuff and john with his music is really difficult to play on the horn and it was so incredible to play to play john williams under the battle of john williams i mean it must have been like that in beethoven's day to play beethoven's 5th symphony under beethoven himself i mean that's probably how the home players felt then to see when their kind of as a journalist and ended up playing a game or a job ok we've got a clip of john williams from a world without beethoven let's check it out. 6 even the greatest modern day film composer makes clever use of beethoven formulas.

as a movie goer i could not imagine a world without john williams and this is what we're talking about today a world without without beethoven it's also impossible to imagine this hard to imagine what would life be like if we'd never seen a rainbow you know in the 7th symphony in the 3rd movement. and then the trumpets. and many don't.

and then it goes into the into the. sure crazy just like you sure. when we saw your turn mark and we've always wondered if that was the precursor to the jewels the i think so i think i think they'd have been swimming. sharks from the jaws he just turns up everywhere we are so lucky that beethoven survived to leave us all of his years ago and it really does sound like you can really hear that. time totally beethoven based on what was that was the precursor to jaws i 100 percent believed in junk just have to take in your horns of the aquarium not yet but a very good idea i shall do that you don't sneak up on anyone especially not me

when we're at the aquarium ok so part one of a world without beethoven is premiering this wednesday here on c.w. and if people want to see the whole thing they will they will want to see it and they can go this wednesday straight to amazon prime and check it out good on you guys for getting this finished during the middle of a pandemic i know it was installed but we got it finished and we're very proud of it absolutely could and should be congratulations and thanks for coming on the show . and i could have imagined that beethoven's 250th birthday anniversary this year would be celebrated with barely a concert even in the city where beethoven was born bonn germany and the west of the country even there most events this year have had to be canceled the only one that's left is at a construction site believe it or not it's a very special 2 hour by the documentary theater group i mean you call.

beethoven's 250th birthday wasn't supposed to be celebrated in a construction site but the beethoven howler and vaughan built in 1959 and $1.00 of west germany's foremost venue's is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment politicians voted for the country's president here and the glitzy german press pool was celebrated here and of cools it hosted the annual beethoven festival the renovation of the listed building began in 2016 and was due to finish in 2020 that completion has been postponed until 2024 so the bit of another was kind of the white elephant in the city and then. we have to cancel everything the whole bit of the festival was cancelled. only this place is left over so it's funny enough the the only event that's happening in the beethoven festival so far so the only place that was not supposed to be in the festival and in the anniversary is now the only one that's used. at the weekends our collective riemannian protocol invited visit

is on a theatrical walk through of the construction site. we met a lot of people that have different connections to the whole like it's intellectual connection so it's because of their biographer your profession and then we choose 10 of them that we follow and even because they're sometimes contradicting each other. in line with social distancing measures the visitors will lead through the premises to meet a host of people closely associated with the b 12 and. the former mayor of bonn. musicians who performed here. and tossed on the former chief of protocol who oversaw visits from numerous german presidents to the beat over. the.

this is this is west german president. in 1982 i'm right behind him. international politics well also decided here. i've just come from the men's toilets i would have loved to have followed them in here and listen to what they said that when they really got down to business. we women were always told that we'd never have great career is because we didn't pee with the v.i.p.'s. don't do. this this place is a kind of memory stock of history of western well it's proof that in complete way this place manages to get a life through the memories of the people. the events protectionists take that

balance to the strains of beethoven's divorce of food see it all spin hire a hit home for debate over how this is turned out to be quite a triumph for the beethoven the whole construction site character of the scientist symbolic. culture always unfinished process is it's always a work in progress. well that's it for this edition of arts and culture and i will leave you now there with a scene of jazz trumpeter went in marsalis exploring whether beethoven might have had something to do with the boogie woogie that's a clip from the dead over your documentary a world without beethoven you can catch it on d w or on amazon prime starting this why. bye bye for now.

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did beethoven in fact and just did to do did do. did is it just the data 16 will be the. progeny. semi rubber bands of stolen beethoven. and of course the subconscious always one thing is clear. they took just more of the popular. i see a sure shot i feel sure. but with the word sound with the biggest composer of all time i constantly became to imagine a world class one player senlis on a musical journey of discovery. without plato's in september 16th on.

this is the dublin years live from dublin the european union leaders called for a level playing field in trade with china during talks with president xi jinping they pushed for i'm opening of chinese markets and pressed beijing to respect human rights also on the program total trump heads to california it's a visit there is devastated by wildfires which he blames on poor forest management .

one for girl welcome to the program the german chancellor i'm going to america says european union trade with china must be conducted on a level playing field germany currently holds the e.u.'s rotating presidency so the chance of a joint officials in speaking to reporters following talks with chinese president xi jinping chancellor merkel said europe's demand for competition was justified given china's rapid economic growth over the last 15 years she added that the e.u. had not shied away from bringing up sensitive issues including china's human rights record. cooperation with china must be based on the principles of reciprocity fair competition as well we are different societies we have different social systems but we acknowledge the importance of multilateralism importance of rules when it comes to climate change and climate protection. the e.u. and china welcome the paris agreement that is extremely important and we want to

have a high level dialogue take place which doesn't just take place off the cuff but it's rather more of the systematic nature to a dialogue between the e.u. and china where we talk about the glasgow climate conference at the end of the year we managed to talk about other topics which are michele as already mentioned and topics which are difficult where we don't always agree hong kong for example the treatment of minorities and the issue of human rights. so i feel that today we had a good open honest dialogue which should be continued well i've got more from our europe correspondent gail government is in brussels welcome georg what else have we heard from this meeting. i think statement by it was enough on a line the president of the european commission who participated in that meeting sums it up quite nicely and she said china has to convince us that it is worth having an investment agreement now for that agreement the e.u.

has been preparing for years and the hope has now been that we're closing in towards the end of the year now that hope is still alive but a lot of conditions have been put on the table on the e.u. side there's been some progress has been made on the line made that clear for instance on the issue of forced technology transfers where negotiators have agreed but when it comes to market access and that is really the key the e.u. commission made clear today that meeting halfway won't do what the e.u. commission wants to see is that the european companies get market access in china in crucial industries because that is exactly what chinese companies have when they come to europe people are saying the relations between the e.u. and china their worst for decades why is that. there's a number of reasons really let's start with the political ones and the most complicated ones because predominantly the policy of the european union so far have been guided by the principle of change through trait but looking at the

political side of course you have the security law the controversial security law in hong kong human rights violations and here it was quite interesting today to hear the council president child michel bring up a whole list of demands what china has to do including international independent observers accessing a part of china where there have been alleged abuses human rights violations against the local weaker muslim population now that will be interesting how that will play out so that's the political side of it then you have the corona crisis where europe somehow has realized particularly germany for instance that there is a dependency on supply chains particularly when it comes to medical supplies so that didn't go down well with a number of member states and finally you have as i mentioned the market access issue and that is really at the root of the problem the e.u. commission today but also the german chancellor representing here the euro the

presidency of the european union have made it very clear that they do want to see concessions on the chinese part when it comes to business business together with the german chancellor angela merkel she did have high hopes for the original summit that was planned for today as she achieve them. well let me quote the german chancellor here when she said we have to find solutions even if we're crawling for it 55 bit and that is what we did today so she said she she experienced a good and honest dialogue and i thought it was interesting to hear that she also talked about political will but what i was missing and many observers here in brussels were missing were clear conditionality the long list presented off political and environmental demands for more sustainability for instance where not directly linked to that investment. trade deal and that is something we'll have to observe in the in the months to come to what extent that will play out. this in

brussels thank you. russian president vladimir putin has granted a $1500000000.00 loan to belarus and face to face talks with the embattled balance in the into the bush and they discussed a wide range of issues during their talks in sochi including joint military exercises but a routine leader is facing unprecedented anti-government demonstrations back home and he's looking to moscow for support. it was smiles all around as russian president vladimir putin offered his bellow rescind counterpart alexander lukashenko a seat in the face to face talks in sochi of the 1st since look at shane coburn the presidential election in august extending his controversial 26 year grip on power in belarus. and co has had a lasting relationship with moscow since he 1st took office in may 994 when he signed an agreement with then presidents boris yeltsin to integrate into

a political and economic union with russia but he didn't fully implement it now location could be forced to fully commit to the terms of the agreement placing his country under the aegis of russia during the talks valve to stand even closer with the question. russia remains true to all of our agreements including the agreements stemming from the union states treaty and the collective security treaty organization we see as our closest ally and obviously as i've told you in our numerous phone conversations we will fulfill every obligation to. issue you to what appeared to be a warning to antigovernment protesters back in that a ruse the main thing is not to cross the line there's a red line and you are familiar with this even more than myself you had to draw these lines in chechnya when you were

a young president i remember that and god forbid this happens in belarus but there are certain red lines nobody has the right to cross. the hood. create unprecedented protests sweeping batteries are now in the 6 week an estimated 150000 people turned out in minsk alone at the weekend the aim is clear they were. 2 hours to look a sham co from power. the united nations said it is receiving wasn't described as a launching reports of the repression of peaceful demonstrations the un human rights council has agreed to an e.u. proposal to call an emergency meeting to discuss the antigovernment uprising in belarus. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world will start here where doctors treating the russian opposition leader alexei novelli so his

condition has improved and it is now able to get out of bad taste in the valley had been in a medically induced coma following what german government says was poisoning with a nerve agent. according to berlin specialist labs in sweden and france have now confirmed that diagnosis. russia's main program and particularly of russia is claiming a clear win in sunday's local elections there were position candidates did make some gains the vote is seen as a key test for president putin and was overshadowed by the in the valley poisoning . by dance the parent company of a popular video sharing app tick-tock says it's chosen oracle as its new u.s. technology partner that it won't sell the app or part with its source code president trump threatened to ban tick tock unless its chinese parent company sells its u.s. business. well president trump has arrived in california where he plans

to see it firsthand the devastation caused by massive wildfires along the west coast he's jus' made with firefighters and emergency officials in the north of the state who've been struggling to control record blazes that have devastated 20000 square kilometers he's blamed the fires on poor forest math forestry management the failure to clear deadwood democratic rival joe biden has pointed to climate change as the reason. children in italy have begun returning to school more than 6 months after they closed because of the pandemic some regions postponed the reopening as some schools are unable to meet the new requirements but for those going back it's a time of excitement and apprehension. social distancing has already been abandoned in this school as children flock back after half a year without class. and i believe that. it will be somehow different.

but it will be an unforgettable experience. was it i'm probably going to school year will be more difficult because of the coronavirus my previous school had fewer pupils but let's see it will work out some how. many schools don't have enough desks to ensure the kids are kept apart teachers a voiced concern that infection rates could soar in classrooms which do not look less crowded than they did before the pandemic the prime minister acknowledges the problem with. it will be difficult especially in the beginning. our schools have been underfunded for years and the pandemic has made this even more obvious. now what if you have to do your part by following the rules so that your health and that of your loved ones is protected. the pupils are forbidden from sharing school material which is kept in

a box after lengthy preparations the measures are put to the test but not in all parts of the country rising infection rates have delayed school reopening in some regions. a space research is of encountered potential signs of life on venus they've detected phosphate gas in the clouds around one of our nearest planetary neighbors it could have originated from any number of sources but researchers aren't ruling out the presence of life. is there life in the clouds around venus. it's too early to tell but an international research team has discovered a clue the rare gas faustina on earth it's produced by microbes who live in low oxygen environments. telescopes in chile and hawaii start of the gas by its chemical signature. phosphate in molecules in venus's clouds absorb

short wave radio waves that exist in the lower atmosphere but can the gas really come from microorganisms. the researchers explicitly say that they are not in the position to state that they've discovered life in venus is that most feared. could result from natural processes like lightning volcanic activities or for other reasons and yes most of any case. if there really are microorganisms in venus as clouds they would be hearty beings indeed those clouds are full of self iraq acid which is for all to life. whether there is truly life in those clouds must be confirmed by further observation a russian space probe is expected to reach venus a surface in the coming decade. in french football party.

hosted better brothels a maasai of a name a says he was the target of racist slurs from alvah gonzales until late in the match or punched him in the back of the head the clash boiled over into a full scale brawl 5 players were sent off moss a one the match one nail polish later denied name was allegations. i mean for we going to take a look at some mountain biking here in germany not in the mountains but in an abandoned quarry after months away from the sport because of coronavirus restrictions fat tire riders from across europe got together to practice socially distance tricks in a radically transformed setting competitiveness managed a couple of firsts in the competition including the 1st ever backflip boss spent a cliffhanger. office. as reminder of a top story at this hour german chancellor angela merkel says the e.u.

and china held open and honest how the open on these dialogue on human rights issues which needs to be continued she was speaking after an online summit between the e.u. and china would also include the train and plight of cell phones. the situation today to more world news up to talk of the hour up business updates is a good. person a drama competition marketing numbers atmosphere power fight at sap intuition love hate money. fans friends fans spam and fans old people. on youtube joining us. good news crime fighters are back africa's most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate

speech prevention and sustainable production all of the zones are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. take talks owners make their choices software company oracle appears to have been chosen by bite down to take over its u.s. are after president trump ordered the business be sold off. opec turns 60 but it's not such a happy birthday low crude prices put the cartel of bind oil giants forecast lasting damage from the corona. and as the e.u. edges china to play fair in business will look closer at the chinese taste to

taking over german businesses. this is the business i'm robots in berlin it's great to have you with us software company oracle appears to have won the race to take over the u.s. arm of video up tick tock the company has confirmed its part of a proposal submitted to the white house by to talk on a bi downs the us government says it will review the plans over the past day it's emerged that bite down rejected a bit from microsoft president trump ordered the sale of the us business threatening to ban it otherwise. on this let's speak to alison stewart alan who is c.e.o. of london based international marketing partners which advises organizations on how to expand worldwide alison oracle may not be known to many of viewers know and ordinarily a business software company is it a good fit for tick tock. well one could argue the only reason it might be a good fit is because oracle supplies all of the sort of cloud computing technology

so that all of the information that tick tock gathers about its users their habits their preferences about what types of short form video they like it's there almost like a data organizing company and so you could imagine making the case that maybe that's where the fit is however it seems a much more obvious fit with microsoft because microsoft has experience of engaging with and selling to consumers like us whereas oracle's experience is really with businesses they don't really understand consumer marketing in the same way they have interesting to hear from by dance-y. they've made this decision but if they do divest their american business can they be successful without it. well that's a really good question i mean obviously the global population without the united

states is still a very big number so i have no doubts at all that china and the bike dance owners tick tock owners will want to look at other opportunities you know markets in southeast asia in terms of short form video and entertainment and social media are exploding with enthusiasm and there's huge opportunity there there's opportunity in india although currently talks not legally allowed and there are opportunities throughout the rest of the world so even if the u.s. market is closed to them they've got plenty of other opportunities in a lot of other places meanwhile back in the u.s. what is it about tick tocks that has had the likes of microsoft clamoring to get control of it. well numbers is really what it's all about and data so we know that in the social media world it's all about the data and given the number of users

that tic toc has microsoft would be in heaven if it could access that kind of target population of customers they might want x. boxes in the future they might want video games they might want some of the where's that microsoft sells so you're presenting microsoft in a lot of ways with an added customer base that maybe they otherwise wouldn't have had and therefore profits that come with that but it appears that oracle has won this race we'll see what the white house makes of those proposals alison stewart allen from international marketing partners thank you for joining us thank you now to some of the other business stories making the news. japan is following china and south korea in suspending german pork imports officials last week confirmed a case of swine fever in germany's why would bore population german pork exports

have been soaring after the disease devastated pick stocks in china. and european carmakers are calling on the e.u. and u.k. to avoid a no deal bret's it they wanted to cost sector 110000000000 euros in last trade over the next 5 years failure to security you would mean tariffs making vehicles more expensive and hitting demand. that the organization of the petroleum exporting countries opec is celebrating its 60th anniversary it's marks the occasion by downgrading its outlook for global oil demand this year a coronavirus pandemic has pushed already low oil prices down even further that's proving a disaster for oil reliance economies particularly in africa 7 of opec's 13 members are african nations including our geria nigeria i could tauriel guinea and congo. so we can now speak to n.j. i accuse c.e.o.

of security and law group which specializes in oil and gas law in africa how africa's oil exporter is doing are they struggling even more than the likes of saudi arabia and iran. abscess absolutely you know what a saudi arabia. iraq and some of the m.p.'s are produces when they have a recession and african states having depression because the reliance so much on these pro huge parts of government spending come out of our house so when you have to reduce decor crimes to be cheap and i think harken states are suffering and beyond that a lot of projects have been counsel and a lot and jobs are being lost on the hoping that the market can recall and he can move out of these really really big or times what's the solution hair is it diversifying away from oil and gas and doing it quickly or is it is it getting

money from elsewhere the world bank the i.m.f. . i mean we always will because i mean i cheated in africa you chant but you always opposed just going tomorrow and asking for markey from the world bank does not mean we have to use african resources used to get africa walking again and that's what we need to do so diversification is really key we need to look at a car show we need your garbage truck coming because we need to look at building or that or that any of the industries i like to mention opec 60 we have to also celebrate got because i just point we have an african that is champion mormonism this is back in build on this is that time where we get to support team and doctors file economy so that we can we have got a stone that we're coming to future because you would be on the song to veto it just depends of if we are in. now you mentioned the 60th anniversary of the

founding of aipac now the majority of member states are african countries there's africa have a big say in aipac. of course after casting big say over what we've nigeria don't forget we have a very brilliant charismatic leader or hold it right now for armies and if you back you that is really he was a risk or one of those responsible who did declare a state of cooperation to get a few years back let's see if the oil industry expanded will there ever russia all the opec countries to get a true was true on your problems and that you still want to sit in your market too deep but it doesn't stop there you only you know you have to always fight to be on the table because you not only table you going to the big africa east africa cattle . we have to use the word cd to really dive if i can only have the strongest sea

and industry for work but don't forget and if you poverty and if you transmission climate change these are going to be issues that africa all pick would have to deal with and we should not forget that because we i don't want what we have you don't refute people with no access to any we know access to that have to be energy poverty is going to be something that opec would have to you know we eat a future no matter what happens thank you very much enjoy a crumb century and don't know a great thanks for joining us thank you for having me now the year was caught on beijing to make further concessions on market access has passed of investment agreements between the 2 powers and leaders of the european council and commission germany's angela merkel and chinese president xi jinping discussed economic relations in a video conference on monday if i'm to have long complained about the lack of an

uneven playing field chinese firms have easy access to your pay in markets but not so much the other way around yet some european businesses say they've been lost without china's support. german made kitchens like those from pub and pole are among the best worldwide now though the 120 year old halford based kitchen maker has been taken over by a chinese company has done from port important to ensure the poker survive and stay here in halford long term we have to look for a buyer with the coronavirus crisis certainly sped up the process. halford is in westphalia one of germany's strongest economic regions the areas business association is concerned about the number of potential takeover candidates their companies struggling due to the pandemic doesn't tend to say i don't know if it's a trend but we clearly keeping an eye on things. we support open borders and so foreign investors are very welcome of course we expect our investors in china to receive

the same open markets and conditions as here that's not the case in all sectors though for 4. or 5 totem pole is not a one off after running into financial difficulties some years ago bealefeld based sewing machine manufacturer to do a cop was taken over by chinese investors some fear that the chinese would steal the company's peyton's and stop producing its machines in asia but few wins for us and group it was a really good move it represented strategic progress a step in the right direction under our chinese owner we've made substantial developments and been very successful. nonetheless the local chamber of commerce fears that chinese companies could stop buying up large numbers of ailing german companies china is investing billions world white german companies

are big favorites. finally spacious clean and see through an unusual a new public toilet block has been built in a tokyo pop the nippon foundation commission prominent architects to refashion public facilities a yellow baby changing room pink for women and purple for men when not in use translucent by an electric current running through the walls as soon as the users lock the door the walls turn opaque or put some trust in them. and also from a in the business team in berlin thanks a lot for joining us. clearing

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