people feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of the troops who stay behind. this place starts october 16th on d.w. . if there's a country that knows what change feels like it's germany on october 3rd 1990 the country are unified to ideologically different systems became one the challenges were manifold the former east was economically behind a 3rd of state run companies there were shut down leaving millions out of work with

no choice but to start over and that's exactly what today's show is all about. to this day the truck or trout the is the symbol most associated with east german industry the now iconic vehicle was manufactured in the city of stick in the state of saxony it was known for being on reliable and extremely polluting but 30 years on change is brewing in its birth place today is home to one of fox law against most innovative car factories. car manufacturers are scrambling to catch up and get ahead of the future is an electric shock means are brought to go transformation of germany's alter industry suppliers are struggling in west and eastern germany i'm sure but no. electric cars need to have a tree. what they don't need to get cases like this because they don't have multi

speed good boxes. and that is a major problem for young. he heads the works council it's a company that makes cases d.t.h. hide and now the work force numbers more than $300.00 trainees i can tell you that there will be personnel changes very probably firings which is of course bad news out of here for which. it's tough very much especially because i know everybody here and it's very worrying. d.t.h. is a di cost of the supplies various components to the auto industry especially good cases . the shift to electric plus the impact of the pandemic have tipped it over the edge into insolvency. its biggest customer i spoke spoken to is moving fast to switch to electric cars its contents macau in eastern germany no longer makes any cars with a combustion engine the workers that have

a job guarantee until 2029. i'm somewhat students because the parents make out that transformation process means that every employee has theresa scale and learn how to do other jobs every worker has to be retrained sometimes multiple times with bunch. of a cow is the w.'s most advanced plant it's in both the group strategy to go electric. the trouble is other manufacturers started to make the switch sooner i know in the elite in terms of science many say feed w. has been too slow off the mop. we've perhaps been a bit slower than i would have liked but it's never too late we found a good point in time in our development and can manufacture electric vehicles in large numbers it was a similar discussion some years ago about s.u.v.s and they did this with your own

before this on the s.u.v. skiing people were saying vokes wagon was too slow and was too late in fact it was just right the technology was mature and sales were good and kept growing we intend to do the same with electro mobility us sales will take off again or but as we do when denver go every country in. its newest call just unveiled is the id for an all electric compact a c.v. made in civic how. it weighs in at about 2 metric tons. this is on the energy for a special because it's an electric s.u.v. designed for the global market i have great expectations going to go big in china and america. but the current pandemic has hit the welts 3 major markets hard china the e.u. and the us the german automotive association expects a 17 percent drop in unit sales over the last year. t g

h hi to now has been hit so hard by the switch to eat cause and slumping cost sales the some workers will probably have to look for another job. i must make me think about the division between east and west germany. just finished a struggle i feel better here in the east it's even if i would earn more in the west this is where you get home as a child. we one country now no no definitely not. but people always say we earn in union wages and i can east as well as in the west but they don't say is that union wages in the east are lower than in the west aka chuck you don't just get the best of the for. for many so as long as there are such differences we can't be one country united. the impending job cuts are preying on everybody's mind at the factory who is going to be fired and who will be invited to stay nobody knows yet. because it's i'm curious the slogan in

a word the meeting was worried as we expected restructuring plan has not yet finalized but start in some jobs will probably be affected that is john to buckle up on whether the plan makes sense i don't know further discussions are needed president not just put off it's an exhausting struggle for works council members and not only his. other companies have already announced they will slash thousands of jobs. as many as 400000 jobs could be at stake in the german auto industry. factory closures are nothing new for young scholar force almost 3 decades ago after german reunification the factory where he did his apprenticeship was shuttered. it wasn't a problem. but why is it different now. i'm older. so this time it will be much harder and that's

a cause for concern as much as american. b.w. inspect our house no immediate reason to worry. about the east german trapeze of his youth now he drives a new electric. it's good for marketing. it's the most important car now for the factory and our future. combustion engine cars were once built all electric ones will soon roll off the assembly line. v.w. is investing 1200000000 euros into the switch to electric. a huge amount has been achieved since of unification still differences between east and west do remain after the wall came to an end there was a major brain drain from east to west and to this day young people head west for jobs all the more important then to create opportunity is at home my colleague. met one family of entrepreneurs doing just. jack hardly seems like this

we've patton's into luxury fabric of our 1st half to master the machines before she could take over as production manager. now she supervises a fact of workers. of them on the outside and you need to know how everything works to be able to organize things properly otherwise you don't have a feel for it. because it is a family owned company i was trained by her father and her uncle. went on. to sense of humor which is always important not to take things too seriously but to laugh at things because if we didn't we'd stop coming to work. with on life wouldn't be much fun of the was and hopes to fight wrinkles. but as i went on through through the my own clothes responsible for machinery and investment what is

quality control and procurement through to my father's responsible for production. which in this review put up to warn us of these my boss a step above me and he also takes care of the bookkeeping and sales. for the fatigue but more than anything else she's inherited his love for the product jack ard fabric. and i love textiles or i wouldn't be working here and i also love the way they're made the textiles are just so diverse that they've become a real passion of mine shaft avoidant is. balla is one of the world's last remaining companies to manufacture the precious jacka damask fabric a firm but night cotton material with artistic patterns woven into it rather than imprinted on the surface. it's used for table cloths and bedding. and

also as closing for african customers. and industrial stuff. the power weaving male in our in south eastern germany is 130 years old in that time it seemed many threats to its existence. especially after world war 2 eastern germany became the socialist g.d.r. the company was taken over by the state in 1972. the old power logo was replaced by one proclaiming a just so called v. e. v. for people's enterprise. it was for new york windows that goes with it was a tragic experience for the family i had just finished my degree and had intended to start work here. in studio but when that happened i knew i wouldn't be working

here after my studies. instead the 2 by our brothers worked as textile engineers in other state run enterprises virtually none of which survived. then came in 1909 and the fall of the wall offering them the chance to start over again. had to my brother managed to convince me he said the product was marketable and that this was an opportunity. to get the company back on its feet all debts 1st have to be paid off and new machines installed. it was a massive investment. at that time the ballad brothers were working around the clock. as a defender happy so it was a very hard time for us as a family. we lived in the villa at the front of my father was basically never there . is an opposite we're really proud of what the pair of the machine. they stayed

the course and were so tonight. the family is on the grounds of their weaving today it's the company's headquarters. the bow is invested a lot of care in restoring the villa. i grew up in this building as a kid and the works grounds were my playground when i was young and it's school. so i formed a bond with a villa in the factory itself when i was a child and the connection became pretty deep with. rebuilding the company has been a labor of love and one day no doubt a successor from the host of offspring who follow in michelle footsteps. a labor of love is certainly not how you could describe the subject of our next

report us here in for in a new stage of the airport is due to open at the end of october a mere 9 years later the project seemingly endless problems were the brunt of many jokes about the myth of german efficiency our reporter in. the story. the brown new berlin brandenburg international airport finally open 131-2020 that's about. 3289 days from the 1st planned opening day so her let's hope it's worth the wait through minnie's former chancellor and berlin they are very grand priest everyone at the terminal and friends with the famous quote of this if i were asked to say what apart from peace was most important to me then my answer would be freedom maybe if berlin's current administrators were asked why apart from building

a world class airport for the german capital it was most important to them then that would be opening it does these things happen along the way. to go through a letter airport code for this airport was meant to be. for berlin brandenburg international airport but that turned out to be taken by the will by national airport in india so don't get confused about the b r. the sign showing arrivals and destinations had been hanging here for so long that eventually they stopped working after a few years they had to be switched out to the tune of half a 1000000 euros. more than 90 kilometers of cable. so for a few months and 2030 in the light stayed on because they couldn't figure out how to switch them off because of a technical glitch. but 9 years and 7000000000 euros later the airport management

says it's finally worked everything out and volunteer airport testers are here to take fake flights to see if that's true. lots of people pretending to go to frankfurt today but not everyone finds a toe of you today and cullen bunn. how do you find the new airport it's quite nice very modern very scary as it sounds it's pretty and still looks new even though it's been here for so long it still looks good to try to get out i think this is. i'm really surprised i can positively surprised yes positively. perfect perfect ok perfect temperature yes i like kids but i'm here to form my own impression now the check in counters are made of regionally sourced award so they're very pretty but i think there should be more of them it doesn't feel like there are nearly enough. so there are no soffits for

electricity or charging but i have been promised that they will call hopefully until the airport opens. the really more of these around this was really hard to find but i do have a favorite part of the magic carpet a 1000 square metre artwork made of bright red metal ribbons this has been hanging here for nearly 8 years. but after kong of its installation artist pay white said perhaps it represents magical transport. reality found. a relevant question soon we will finally learn whether the airports dreams of well being an airport will finally come true but some parts of it like the shopping zone are still under construction. the duty free. shopping possibilities aside and look at the bigger picture i think the old seeing . build it in the. airport and the travelers

are the 1st part that's mostly done but the 2nd part is. speaking of going places the woman in our next report certainly is here's the story of how she waved goodbye to the corporate world and set foot quite literally on a brand new. it's vile and i worked for a dax listed company i was responsible for personnel and organizational development worldwide but i was going to manage a manager yes a stellar career with top pay but by her late forty's she'd had enough it's hard celeste i wasn't why maybe it had to do with my age you reach mid-life and wonder will it ever do anything else or will it continue on this path. if i want to change the now's the time. many people feel trapped on the treadmill and just accept it

and i decided not to accept it. she took a risk and opted for something completely new she now makes shoes for a living. now works with her hands rather than sharing meetings how work life has changed completely she underwent training with her such a fight shoemaker the 2 of them then went into business together selling tailor made shoes. she's managed to step out of her manager role now she speaks to customers as the shoemaker. quite differently i sit on the floor in front of people i'm not addressing them across the conference table back then i definitely wouldn't have used such a personal or friendly manner. so what are her former colleagues think of her radical career change.

decision i'd like to do the same but i can't take the risk or i can't do it for various reasons some people said she's crazy or that i didn't say anything but i'd say the majority was a little envious of me lives off. does she think many would like to leave management. she took the risk and had enough savings to carry her. around says that with her new job she now feels a lot more free. embracing change doesn't always mean doing away with the old though in bangladesh ship building is a centuries old tradition that the country is in the process of turning of that no high into a high tech industry there are already some $200.00 large scale ship building companies in bangladesh our reporter made that so visited both a traditional boat builder in the monic ganz district in the center of the country

and he got a taste of the modern shipbuilding scene in the port city of chittagong. when it rains in bangladesh it often rains hard and read length of sleep. but work must go on here at western marine shipyard in chief. the latest order was a milestone not just for the shipyard but for the country such large cargo ships have never been built here before. when. one would we don't. know it. when you got. the shipyard is so far delivered 4 of these ball carriers to an indian steel company getting this contract was

a big moment for the shipyard. but hopefully just the start of things to come bangladesh wants to become a key player in shipbuilding bottom of this as you know is being 2nd largest in the textile and garments and. now it's time for definitions we call it shock to ship so i pick. the industries. he says time to start and ship building has started. foot boat building is actually a centuries old tradition in bangladesh and not only by the coast. large areas of the country lie only just above sea level during the rainy season the lens disappears below the water. resit in simply learn to live with it but

without a boat almost nothing is possible. to live. there bringing season is the most important time of year for boat builders like so the season is nearly over these are the last boats you'll build for now when the monsoon rains start to fall each family needs at least one boat. it's a good business. on a few years ago the water level was even higher. then i could sometimes sell a boat that cost me 2500 taka for about 7000 talk about. $7000.00 taka is about 70 year olds abdul halim learned the craft from his father for both builders like him nothing has changed for generations.

he lives with his family in the money gunge district in central bank would ash a long way from the ocean through. he's already bought the wood for the next boat season until the monsoon arrives business will be quiet. and. building is only seasonal work. but we don't have to look for other jobs in the meantime. when we're not building boats were either farmers or we run other small businesses. that's. how the man's money for the family by selling snacks it's something he can do in any season it's 3 back in chittagong the biggest seaport in bangladesh although there's still a lot of poverty in the country the poverty rate is falling and the economy has

grown significantly in recent years. still there are 160000000 people living in this densely populated country and there's not enough work for everyone. the hope is that ship building will be the future driving force of the economy exporting cargo ships is a relatively new enterprise for bangladesh the 1st order came from denmark in 2008 germany and many others after that so this industry could create a lot more jobs potentially up 210-0000 info. 15 years those who already work at this shipyard consider themselves lucky. so i'm going to have all of us on that we're so proud to be exporting our ships abroad down the road to work here in such a big international shipyard. like. the shipyard in

chittagong is also working hard to modernize just being the cheapest isn't enough anymore sustainability and green energy are important factors especially for european customers. we are working with some buyers. given that the ship should not meet with it indeed instead of this fossil fuel as well as the ferries which will be operated a battery operated phrase shipbuilders in bangladesh hope to stay one step ahead of the competition in asia thanks. you know what they say the only constant in life is change and that's a thought to leave you with at the end of this edition of made it's been a pleasure having you along for me on the team it's goodbye and taker.

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