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china, they're asking why volkswagen is still running a car plant that he says he doing business in berlin. welcome to the program. south africa's unemployment rate has risen to a record high of 30.8 percent and leapt up by more than 7 percentage points during the 3rd quarter. according to the national statistics office. the country is experiencing its longest recession in 28 years with coronavirus restrictions, forcing many businesses to cut wages, reduce staff numbers, or shut permanently. africa's most industrialized economy has long suffered from extremely high levels of joblessness and government corruption trapping millions in poverty. but i speak to our correspondent in cape town. thanks a lot for joining us. this is a big jump in unemployment. how so many south africans fall into the figures? well, part of it i think is that south africa had one of the strictest lock downs in the

world, basically for months and said that definitely has hammered the job market. what we see is that over 2000000, people that lost their jobs during that hard down have not returned to work force and the number that you are mentioning, the 30 percent that's. that's a narrow definition of unemployment. if you look at the broader definition of unemployment and you includes discouraged work seekers, we're talking about 43 percent unemployment. so that indeed is staggering. and a lot of these are young people of africa. already florida's quarter had the highest youth unemployment in the world. and now it's even higher than it was. yeah, the closer you look at the figures, the worse they are. so the south african governments failed to prevent this. but have you got a plan to change it? yet as there are several projects that they're starting, for example, to just announce a project of free online courses for young south africans,

namely in coding in a building off apps. but that's of course, only for the youth that actually has access to a computer and internet and a lot of them don't. we also see that they have opened up the borders, so they hope that investors will come back. it hope that tourists will come back and that, that's basically basically the plan. and i think the plan is also just to, to make sure we won't get a lockdown again because that will be disastrous. what is economy? yeah, those changes that relaxing a very harsh lock down is not expected to bring people back into work. yeah, they hope so. actually as of today, south africa is welcoming tourists again from all over the world. we have relaxed a little bit already. you know, a while back, but we still had a long list of high risk countries that weren't allowed to fly into south africa.

but as of today, the whole world can visit south africa again. and the hope is that that will, you know, fill up, the hotels fill up their restaurants again because that's also a sector where there's a lot of job losses and a lot of lot of those have closed down. so yeah, that they hope that that at least will give a little bit of relief and presence will come up or say yes they even, they actually spoke on television to today nation. and he's saying to people as well, like looks that africa at the moment the figures are not extremely high. but he does see that people are starting to relax because of that, you know, no mosque, no social distancing. and he is also saying, let's please all make an effort to keep the infection rates low so that we can get back to work and build up the country again as much as we can and don't need to go back to, to still staying indoors and, and not working because as i said that that's something really day economy will be

able to handle nestle's. those figures are staying relatively static. and this one in capetown, thanks for joining us. africa's biggest economy nigeria has ratified the african continental free trade agreement. is a key step towards creating the world's largest free trade area. the deal already signed by $54.00 member states of the african union commits countries to drastically cut tariffs with the aim of boosting trade by 60 percent by 2022. it was long, unclear whether nigeria would get on board the country is highly dependent on oil. a commodity traded globally rather than within the continent. german industrial giant, siemens has posted billions of euros in profits for the last fiscal year. that's despite the coronavirus pandemic battering parts of its business. its bottom line showed net profits of $4200000000.00 euros. that's a quarter less than during the previous year. almost half the profits came from the

recent spin off of siemens energy. the figures cover c.e.o. joe cases final year in charge exiting siemens to be replaced by roland. but they are going to, if executive has been speaking to date of the business, we asked how it sought to find a balance between satisfying shareholders and being a socially responsible company. but the old way of or thinking, you know, the business of business is business, meaning don't care about any board. it has the bow show low value. there, it's outdated and it should have never been that way. a quantity which does not serve society should not exist. that's my view. so we have to have a societal value. and if you look at the stakeholders, employees cost them and shareholders, the traditional ones. there is a new constituency, and if the society so they have to say they want to, you know, have kompany is performances, they lability, they want the companies to be responsible. they do not want companies to just fire

people, because there's a pandemic issue, which is of you know, for nature which can be, it can be defeated. siemens passed a german government compensation scheme for energy companies hit by the plant nuclear phaseout who had to be completely reworked. after a court ruling, a constitutional court here found in favor of germany of energy for vatanen phallus, saying the scheme violated its fundamental rights. germany began its phase out after the fukushima nuclear disaster back in 2011. the swedish company can now hope there'll be more financial compensation on the way for decommissioning. its nuclear power plant compensation for investments that became redundant. soon after the reactor meltdown in fukushima in japan. the german government in 2011 said it was reducing the certified life spans of the country's 17 nuclear plants for safety reasons. that also had 2 plants in clement bones,

brittle in northern germany. at the moment, only 6 nuclear generators are active in germany. they're all slated for compulsory shutdown by 2022. button file has not restricted its legal activities to germany. it's also taking its case to the international center for settlement of investment disputes at the world bank, where it's also demanding billions of euros compensation for the loss of its power stations. china continues to ignore criticism of its vast network of detention camps and prisons in the northwest region of jang, human rights groups have increasingly put the spotlight on western companies investing there. one of the biggest is germany's folks fog and burning a reports. the capital of china's western region to weak and other minorities. this is one of the most heavily policed regions in the world. china's repressive policies against ethnic minorities have been called it. genocide is also

a german carmaker most controversial. it w. is the only international carmaker to have a plant in the region of 20000000 indians. i don't fully made the decision to build this factory more than 10 years ago. it was a decision made solely for economic reasons. there was no political motivation. the fact there is no in a politically and socially sensitive environment. warnings as china has covered the region with a massive system of prisons, internment centers, and reeducation camps. australia's asp institute has documented $380.00 facilities across the region. hundreds of thousands, possibly millions have disappeared in these facilities on a recent visit, and it's constantly followed around, didn't stop from filming some of the facilities of official prisons, some are unmarked, and some cynically designated as bookish trains. there

are several levels of security from high security prisons to just friends come on. kyra, some arcana, cars are born in china has spent several months in one of these so-called vocational schools in 2018. what they had to learn there had little to do with professional skills. he says, to make it in this camp we had to send in the chinese anthem and other communist songs. they taught us that china was the strongest country in the world, and we had to study materials about the 19th communist party congress. that's in there. it was. china is portraying the mass detentions as a means to provide opportunities on the job market. but there is growing evidence of forced labor inside the camps or after release when former detainees have been paused to sign up with employment agencies. we w says there's no indication of

forced labor and its operations have a shift in the law to the act, say, but we hire all our employees directly. they send their resume and we have a job interview. and then they hate charge apartment and the operating department make a decision based on the resume and the impression they gave me was happened to them before is something that is hard for us to new stuff is through extreme shriya enough to footsie. chinese authorities are aware of the controversy my mind to stay in their car this time, but they call it a factory. god. bro . go filming is not allowed here. because of did they just tell you? no, i saw you from my window. coming out. what did they tell you with all of what they just supervise our work? b w says it will stick to its investment, but the controversy is likely to remain economic levy. w.'s investment never paid off. it was planned to build $50000.00 cars a year here,

but its output is less than half that and finally, plans for a new highway in kenya's capital nairobi have hit a snag all because of a century old fake tree. it was due to be up rooted to make way for a support pillar for the chinese funded road. but a government spokesman announced that following an outcry, a presidential decree has been issued protecting the tree, which is the height of a 4 story building. now the china road and bridge corporation and kenya's, highways or 30 have agreed to reroute the road around it. and that's all for most of us

to the point. strong opinions, clear positions of international perspectives of the past has not really settled on america's presidential election. but one thing seems certain if and when joe biden enters the white house, he's going to adopt a very new and very different foreign policy. find out more come to the point from this point to the, to some 60 minutes on in the art of climate change

for cosmos or what's in store for us to come for the future in the 1st column, the 2nd biggest city in such culture. this is state of the news africa on the program today. ethiopians fleeing a government military operation in the northern region, also griet off boring insisted on i did thousands. the un is warning of a humanitarian crisis. and face been raised in angola with protesters violently catching with police people and worry about mass unemployment and the rising cost of living class. slinging olso scenes with a catapult help kenya solve the country's deep.