we can make a difference are choosing reforestation de force to recycling our disposable solution so we're still serving our. lives truly unique and we know that their uniqueness is one allows us to live in survive. why do i see the environmental issues including 3000 on g.w. going. this is state of the union africa with a special best stop edition featuring stories brought to us by a part of spondon up on the program the protests that brought down and nigerian police units whose alleged corruption and violent tactics dated back to 1992 but will that end saws movements apparent success spell the end all these are tennessee . at the desperate farmers counting the cost structure a plague of locusts feasted on the cops leaving nothing to eat nor sell.

past the jury is still out on whether this her brain works but the south african farmers say good health begins the spanish flu and that it can help to beat the current 5. hello i'm going to walk them to this special edition of the program looking at some of the top stories of 20 twentieth's good to have your company now 22 weeks in october angry young people in nigeria took to the streets to denounce police arrest meant violence and extortion they say the country's sause units will special and to robbery squad had itself been lawful and demanded that it be disbanded that was the end saws but now the protests evolved into campaigns for police reform and an end to what was called bad governance in africa's most populous. nation now that if it

was laid on social media and was all stood by activists and services across the world the government gave in on at least one of those demands but no one's really certain about where the true reform is coming. edward is one of the few people behind the october protest that brought to nigeria to his town steve tens of thousands of protesters took to destry to demand an end of police brutality they stood their ground despite our swords by anti-riot for these they do are these part of peaceful protest as we live to fight for our right this is not an enjoyable want this is not the police police force that we want this is not the kind of good men to be we have to keep that for. comprehensible nor to new the government special anti-roll but his call it was fast formed in 1902 and nigerians have been critical of its tactics from years previous attempts to force

the government to scrap the police you need never succeeded but in europe energized the movement that much for 2 weeks in october and pushed the government of president mohamed dubois hurry to dissolve sas and see it will end police see the protests we organized on social media platforms. we just have to get a little kid off into the police less and mobilize and look less need to listen we did this media and also. when edward and a number of local and international say breaches called for protest by joint she says this solace you need and her boyfriend and kept them at gunpoint and this peaceful robbery scored robbed them of all their money it is a day she does not want to remember. it's been really hard. it's been really tough mentally i could still hear the sound of feet going cooking for

a long period in my sleep i would have died that day according to the government to count more than 100 people were killed in 2 weeks as a result of protest a probe is ongoing to establish who is behind the violence the keatings shoot and she was just coming to terms with assault by silas i'm just hopeful that manger we can see the point where. we can walk on the streets and not be afraid of getting killed by blowing force. this you need to fall and taking in nigeria's capital used to be a symbol of democracy and free speech but when protesters try to come in here they were asked to opt and where are the televised form in an idea and it's a simple that's democracy is eroding and it's a ton to a dictatorship. the ongoing probe looking into the police retired to compress

well i now see its findings are in next year but it doesn't need to fade into the process for the for the if you can think of you with death if you would not it would affect what is going to continue. and what hopes to be in nigeria that is free of fear of its own security forces. now these little beasts rights have ravaged the horn of africa of the sea a desert locusts destroyed vegetation resulting in huge economic losses several countries in east africa namely kenya ethiopia uganda and salsa done all still trying to contain what is the worst desert noticed invasion that the region has seen in over 70 is not despise the government says aerial spraying of pesticides to prevent breeding the locus just kept reading the un has warned of

a looming food crisis in february revisited some kenyan father has to try to find out how they had been affected by the 1st infestation. they were only there for one day to mid january but up my congress was invaded by desert locusts they ate everything from grains to the ears and even an entire field of watermelons but that's not all. like i do know present. normally by this time they're ready for harvest. you. have destroyed them all. the flowers even the leaves. little to seed. the locusts eat everything in their way in a day one square kilometer swarm of locusts can eat as much food as 35000 people. at this time of year my congress granted these are usually filled to the brim but

now they're practically empty. you get a good local song come on come on that's what i've harvested is very little i expected to get sounds of green grams 15 sacks of maize 15 and i didn't get any beans it's all of that they've all been destroyed. his neighbor is equally devastated and without the harvest he doesn't know what to do. there's nothing left to harvest there's nothing else i don't know how to do it's just this farm that's where i get through it we're afraid my family and friends everyone because that's right dirty i'm a farmer limited. this is the worst look at infestation that kenya has seen in 70 years farmers in this region have lost nearly all of their crops some of them have started planting again but they don't know what they will do if the locusts return . to step up the fight against the locusts kenya has started training its voluntary

national youth service while aerial spraying of pesticides is already being used to fight the i don't know just these. trained as a ground spray of younger locusts which conflicts. to form of like burn of my kind the government if it has come too late he doesn't know how to make up for his lost crops. only hopes that his next harvest will survive from you can support. now in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic this year the medic actually president launched a herbal covert 900 that he alleged prevented people from being infected now the race to find a cure for the corona virus spurred interest in herbal medicines although none has so far proved effective now but we sent our reporter to speak with a group of farmers in south africa who are cashing in at the time on the hype surrounding african wormwood. in south africa's eastern cape

province farmer john obvious sally and his family are picking the herb african war would. be. the everyone that's needed. in a moment all through the. something to be. both very important for me to believe but it is very very. likely. the family can pick as many as 10 backs at day. you can find the plant all over the place it has been growing here for a long time and the local farmers have been using it as a traditional medicine but now the demand is going up which is good for business here. back in the village they sell the plans for 4 euro's a back prices have increased along with demand for the herb there's a better place you know we like many believe warmer which can protect them from the coronavirus although there's no scientific proof. i give the fin some of these

because this is a good look around and. say are you question of being a man chinese knife lands for new things. and events will come flowing into you feel wally see. will come clear you know the right of you who want the villagers also believe in warm woods medicinal properties they've been using it for generations even though the village has no electricity no one here has been to the doctor for years one which is prized as one of the most powerful medicinal herb people here say it clears up a stomach ache and half an hour at a fever in 3 days all those letters in your body you can take it of you don't. want is a good medicine if you put your faith plonk you know if you really really have it. there's also a growing demand and. just bought lizabeth an hour's drive from the village the

corona virus is spreading rapidly and urban areas despite the lockdown. has been growing warm wood for the last year her grandmother has been taking it for now business is brisk. 20 bunches today for one euro each but she doesn't believe it can protect people against corona and i was coming i was going to them to the doctor and. i don't there are a group of days. there's been a very busy thinking about this do good about it here. i don't know about going on. there to show you the time because the most been asking you as well what are your customers that i'm going to get is going to. bring them here. but farmer john i. feel safe from the virus is daily cup of tea has a bitter taste but he reckons it's worth it. says his grandmother to the wife.

because if you merely. it's interesting i remember we did some final conversations and we did have the punch to tell us that now's the time to make school some of these alternatives and that is it for our special edition program. you can catch us on our website and facebook page today will leave you with pictures of the story still of. a coronavirus and. just raising awareness across the continent.

story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied drying land their fathers were soldiers from the french colony the families half of the german children had a hard time because the and they were

a reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and control culminating in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the children of shame. storage january 11th on d. w. . a year of empty city streets and empty theater seats as the world went into lockdown 2020 brought out new forms of creativity. the social distancing concert for instance on this arts and culture a look back at the year we weren't prepared for.

the arts and culture people have called 2020 a hot mess of a year and worse and they're not wrong it's been a wild ride to put it mildly with artists and the creative industries had particularly hard after many of us at the beginning of the year were naive enough to think the coronavirus was contained far away it didn't take us long to realize how huge its implications really were for the whole world including for culture. 2020 started really well for some artists. while film and music prizes were being given in the u.s. and europe in 2020 parts of asia were in a state of emergency. in february went according to plan but the new coronaviruses already arrived in europe in berlin the golden bears were given out while the 1st quarantine signs were being established in north italy in march the w.h.o. officially declared the outbreak of the virus pandemic in many countries public

life was shut down and james blunt gave his 1st live stream concert from the philharmonie in hamburg from now on nothing was the same everywhere in cultural capitals look the same. streets and plazas. it is enough to close in some cities from one day to the next. going to marry with the middle of her still we had a coffee cup on the table you know everything with still their. customers want to love to perform. clubs shocks indefinitely festivals concerts all canceled. like this absolutely it was awful it was horrible i was ready to go on tour. it was a big shock i have to admit that i cried a lot. museums and galleries were empty for weeks

for celebrations of the 150th birthday of the new york metropolitan museum was blown off and while some powers as well able to open again in time the crisis will have long lasting affects and biggie's a real step backwards it will probably take 2 to 3 years to get back to even close to where things were on. joining me today to talk about the impact of the pandemic on culture is did nobody's own scott roxboro scott you are a film expert with cuts to the chase how bad of a year has this been for the movie industry being catastrophic i mean you could almost say it's the worst year ever for the film industry i mean it's the industry this year has done worse than did during the depression of the great depression worse than the world wars i mean the 2nd world war there are bombs falling in london there are bombs falling here in berlin but the cinemas are still open this year that the cinemas down almost around around around the world and you've seen

some innovation in theaters trying to make do i mean we saw drive in theaters have a real boom during the pandemic which was which was nice to see is a return to the drive ins but that's just not enough to compensate for really the billions that were lost in box office this year and i mean really since the start of cinema over a century ago the industry's never gone through this kind of crisis before it's almost brought to the point where people are saying the theater industry could be on the brink of collapse but there are still movies getting made there are still movies getting shown you went to the venice film festival for us this year which took place despite and make what was that like very very strange i mean it was interesting i mean you had the socially distanced red carpets you you had everybody wearing masks they took your temperature whenever you went into the theater and there is hand gel everywhere but it still sort of felt like there are real festival and i was really hopeful after the venice film festival this could be

a model for other festivals going forward but looks like they got lucky it was held in the summer when the numbers in europe at least were quite low and it looks like now for the winter months it might be much more difficult the sundance film festival takes place in january has already said they're going to do it mostly online and that could be the model going forward until we have proper vaccine until things may be returned to normal. if you and we have to talk about the winners of the coven situation the streaming services they've they've done well during walk down the yeah it's been grammy night i was sure it was like for you i stream like crazy during the lockdown. and i think a lot of people did and so you have the companies that are incredibly well and it's sort of changed the model i mean you see big film studios like disney put their films online instead of take into theaters warner brothers basically shocked everybody when they made the announcement that all the films coming out late in 2020 and all their films next year will go out simultaneously in theaters and

online on their streaming service h.b.o. max so far this is only for the u.s. but big films like wonder woman 1904 will be an online premiere in the us it's never happened before people are already saying this could mean a paradigm shift that will see an end to movie theaters i hope that doesn't happen but it's definitely to be a rough ride. thanks so much. and walk over 1000 impact on the culture sector looks set to last there have been some glimmers of hope over this year and a patients that have kept artists and institutions creative and connected while the virus kept us apart. you hold the celebration in the middle of a pandemic sure if you go digital musicians from around the world went online this year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer from beethoven.

museums like demarcus national gallery found a way around corona by offering 3 d. virtual tours. performers took to social media actor patrick stewart who cited shakespeare sonnets. the pianist. well peters an opera houses like those here in new york stream the performances around the world. substitute for found new safer locations to party like this gig on a berlin church rooftop. musicians found a way the dresdner symphonic orchestra performed on the roof of an apartment. held picnics performances with socially distance blankets and the music through

headphones. there were even super exclusive concerts with a single musician and an audience 6 of one. of ours didn't stop to salzburg festival which went ahead as planned albeit with fewer people social distancing and new safety measures. this would have been ashamed of artemis had he cancelled the festival this year because our festival was founded in much more difficult times shortly after the 1st world war when there was great hunger and meet. during her own of the berlin state opera held massive open air concerts for free. i can't wait to share this great music again record. good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be part of the live experience being the lie. that. this year thousands of publishers

from around the world came together online for a digital edition of the frankfurt book fair it was the 1st such literary event of its kind but everyone hopes it will also be the last. staying connected in the time of social distancing 2020 showed us in so many ways you don't have to be a famous artist to get creative people and walk down spend. hours and even days of reconstructing and posing as their favorite paintings here are some of the best posts we found on instagram. into the hiring actors showed us that the plays of shakespeare make even more sense inquire into you with the hash tag share your shakespeare.

and steps from angola to a south african beat this was the dance craze that spread through the web and the world like wildfire the jerusalem up. to. a year of walk down of dance challenges streaming films and concerts and 2020 was also a year of losses here are some of the great entertainers who left us. we said goodbye to multiple film legends douglas died at the age of $103.00. marks from seato also died with one of his final big appearances in the series game

of thrones. and now the one who left us the french actor michel. the italian film composer and no more to call me. i am the british director alan parker i bond. james bond. 0 he made history as the 1st james bond so sean connery died at 90. but he never really liked his role as the iconic british spy. connery made some of his best films just off the 100 in his double 07 badge among men the epic adventure the man who would be king like yourself too and that is our film test for the years and bloody mark. can you forgive me. he hasn't survived to see his last plans

put into action the amazing christo he won't ever be forgotten by germans to his covering of the rush start building in 1905. these voices too will have stopped forever in 2020 goodbye from the french club of singing juliet who was married to michelle piccalilli for 11 years. the rock guitarist eddie van halen died at 65 with cancer he influenced a whole generation of musicians many songs that he beautified with his solos are milestones in pop music. the influential bancroft's lost one of its founders in 2020 call florian schneider

s late but initially played flute and later concentrated on a stop pushing the trademark crushed rock sound because. we've almost made it through 2020 and we hope that you'll let us be part of your new year thanks for watching arts and culture.

conflicts you don't hear a lot about it in europe these days but for more than 2 months felt very compulsed by as you corruption and the government demonstrations my guest this week from sofia has been made so such a bus minister made him so sure of spiders she contributed to the government mistreating its most vulnerable people nation of its human rights. looks so for. women. hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a scripted reality show it's not just good versus. evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china turkey people are told it says nothing and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond it you are facing scare tactics

intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to give me all of the smoke and mirrors it's not just about being clear and balanced or being neutral it's about being truly. funny was cordoned off and i were giving. frankfurt. international gateway to the best connection self in road and rail. located in the heart of europe connected to the. experience outstanding shopping and dining office and trying our services. biala gassed at frankfurt airport city managed by from.

this it did have a new supply from berlin london and brussels signed off on the brics a trade deal u.k. prime minister boris johnson angsty agreement just hours after a u. leaders do the same the accord seals the u.k.'s new relationship with the. and goes into force a new year's day. also on the program the u.k. becomes the 1st to authorize the use of the. oxford university vaccines it's cheaper to produce and easier to transport. argentina.

argentina becomes the 1st major country in latin america to legalize abortion it's a landmark decision for pro-choice activists despite strong opposition from the catholic church. and welcome to the program it's been months indeed years in the making and many doubted whether they're even ever be in agreement but just a short while ago british prime minister boris johnson signed off on the brics a trade deal between the european union and the united kingdom the top officials earlier put their signatures on the 1200 page agreement in brussels the deal which was announced on christmas eve lays out the terms of the new relationship between

the e.u. and the u.k. following their divorce earlier this year the agreement is due to go into effect on new year's day johnson says it gives the u.k. free trade and flexibility and an opportunity at a new beginning. what i wanted was once. the treaty the i just saw. and. i think the beginning of what will be a wonderful relationship between the u.k. and britain both is in the right. with us today you know to tell you it is very good. question you ask yourself this i want to raise. yes it's a good deal let's get more now from our correspondents back at mawson london and terry shoals in brussels they're good 1st to you quite simply what happens now. well now boris johnson has signed the deal is an international treaty and it will

be law will be in effect from the 1st of january like you've explained parallel this process in parliament house of commons has already voted on it all on it it's going through the house of lords and then later on probably in the evening it will be presented to the queen so that's that's a parallel process but the really remarkable thing is that all this is being done in one day and many critics of the government all remarking that well it was supposed to be about giving back control to the u.k. parliament to only have a day or half a day for the house of commons for scrutiny a lot of m.p.'s in this debate have been mocked that it's just fooling for sure what they wouldn't want terry over to you in brussels the european commissioner council of signed off on the deal e.u. leaders gave their approval a few days ago but it's still being called a provisional application of the agreement why is that. that's right william and

that's because as beer good explained had happened in london the european parliament said we're not doing that when it became clear that the agreement was going to be concluded only in the final days of the year the european parliament said that simply not enough time to give due process due scrutiny to the more than $1200.00 page agreement and they said we're only going to look at it in january and it may only come up for a vote in march no one's really threatening to to nix the deal no one wants to go through all these months and months of negotiations again but the parliament is saying hey we have the right to look this over before we say it's ok i think what. lawmakers in london were complaining about is fair you know this is months and months in the making and why would you have only a couple of days to that to then say that that it's a good deal and that you will have sufficient oversight of it so yeah that's going to delay the final final approval of the brics a deal for a couple more months beer get we heard earlier boris johnson say brics that the

deal is not the and but a beginning rather churchillian of him in a rather ominous of people know the history of that quote it's referring to so what is this statement really mean in reality. well i mean this is the day that boris johnson obviously is celebrating himself as the man who accomplished something that's historical and for him it's all about reclaiming so rinty and for him it's about you know being this pastor who promised that he would be able to get an agreement with the e.u. that's basically paves the way for the future and that's i think what he's eluding to he is saying that this is a basis for the you and the u.k. to to cooperate on what he's not saying is the trade offs and that's what critics are already mocking. the great city is have has not done historically and boris

johnson and his government have not yes this is an agreement that is good to move forward voids for example really hard breaks and that would be catastrophic catastrophic for the u.k. economy but still economically the u.k. will be worse off because this immediate trading partner there will be new areas and that these trade offs that have been made clear and obviously this isn't a boris johnson doesn't want to talk about the trade offs buddy wants to talk about his accomplishment and this is what he means without all right because most and london terror scholz and brussels as always thank you very much. the european union has struck an investment deal with china after 7 years of talks you has hailed the accord as a major win for automakers and other european companies seeking to do business with beijing as it will give them greater access to chinese markets but critics accuse brussels of ignoring human rights concerns and risking

a rift with washington we'll have more on that in business coming up right after this program. now let's turn to some other stories making news right now more than 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded after a large explosion struck yemen's airport the blast occurred shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed unity government returned from saudi arabia none of the government delegation is thought to be among the dead. more than 20 people are unaccounted for after a landslide struck the norwegian village of goodrum north of oslo authorities evacuated some 700 residents after the early morning disaster which left at least 10 injured emergency services are searching for survivors and securing homes teetering on the edge of the crater left by the slide. who tremors have shaken central croatia a day after a powerful quake killed at least 7 people in and around the town of entry into

south of the capital zagreb rescue workers have been scouring the wreckage looking for survivors tuesday's quake was the strongest to hit the region in decades. the united kingdom has become the 1st country to authorize the coronavirus vaccine developed by astra zeneca an oxford university it's the 2nd vaccine to receive emergency authorisation from u.k. authorities after the beyond tech pfizer one trial data suggest the latest vaccine is less effective but easier to store and transport authorities say they plan to start rolling it out within days the united kingdom is struggling with a surge in virus cases that's threatening to overwhelm hospitals dr john campbell is an independent health analyst based in the u.k. earlier we asked him how important this new vaccine is. this new vaccine is the best news we've had in the pandemic and it is going to change the situation entirely now in the united kingdom we're going to start

a mass rollout of this vaccine from the 4th of january we're going to be vaccinating a 1000000 people a week from that point and that's certainly going to build up as the logistics and infrastructure develops and as well as that what we're going to do is we're going to give one dose of this vaccine and then wait a full 3 months before we give the 2nd dose so that means an awful lot of people are going to start to get a fairly good level of immunity straightaway without waiting for the 2nd dose and of course it also means we can vaccinate many will people so it really is going to change the situation in the united kingdom and in time in europe. germany has registered more than a 1000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the 1st time since the pentagon i began the country's public health institute says that's partly due to a delay in reporting over the christmas holidays but new cases have remained high throughout december especially among the elderly and it's fear of the number of daily deaths could climb even higher in coming weeks.

record bringing some commit or humans in germany more work than they can handle despite weeks of lockdown measures germany has registered its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the beginning of the pandemic. because it's i believe the numbers show how brutally is this virus still strikes and that we're still very far away from any kind of normality. right and since it. considering this situation i don't see how we can return to how things were before the lockdown as hard as it is this also applies to new year's eve so this has to be the quietest new year's eve that germany can remember this is going to end. the persistently high caseload is putting enormous pressure on the health system compared to many other european countries germany experienced

a relatively low number of deaths in the spring but december has been the deadliest month of the pandemic so far. schools restaurants and many shops will remain shut until at least january 10th the restrictions are likely to be extended by chancellor angela merkel and the state premiers next week. but there is hope on the horizon. we work through what we want to do our best to fight this pandemic and to eliminate it from the world. you know you already. see these seniors are some of the 1st to benefit as germany gradually rolls out its vaccination campaign 60000 people in the country have received a jab so far but most of the population will have to wait months to be vaccinated. large new year's celebrations prohibited and many cultural venues looking set to remain closed for a while yet the outdoors. taking up

a new place in people's lives helping to take the edge off of this winter's melancholy. let's look at some of the other developments in the pandemic the u.s. has reported its 1st known case of a corona virus variant that's spreading widely in the u.k. and believed to be more contagious officials are investigating how it reached the u.s. many other countries have already reported cases of the variant venezuela has signed a contract with russia for its sputnik sputnik the vaccine officials say they will inoculate 10000000 people in a 1st face argentina has started vaccinating its citizens after taking a delivery of the sputnik vaccine last week and south korean authorities are scrambling to get on top of an outbreak in a sole prison with nearly $800.00 inmates and staff testing positive the government says prisoners with good records will be eligible for early parole to reduce numbers at the facility. argentina's senate has voted to legalize abortion and the

landmark bill that could have across latin america argentina is the largest country in the region to make abortion legal but the catholic church plays a dominant role there and the issue as polarized society. nervous yet full of. after decades of campaigning and setbacks these women anxiously await news from the argentinean senate. i have to 12 hours of debate lawmakers approve a bill that will legalize abortion in argentina up to the 14th week of pregnancy. we have as you know very excited it is a historic day there's nothing more to say it is a right and we're going for more this is just begun. i can't believe it i swear it's crazy.

it's a victory for the women's rights movement just 2 years has rejected a similar bill. until now only committed in cases of right. wrist. to seek out dangerous illegal terminations. president alberto fernandez had made reintroducing his campaign promises to give the pro-choice movement precious momentum. the anti abortion campaign hopes that would keep restrictions on abortion like most of its neighbors. some of the most restrictive laws in the. catholic church from. the movie i saw at the senate i acted as celebrated their victory but stressed that the us is far from over. coming up after the break business news with the.

unphysical then he'll have more on that e.u. china trade deal and i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour course you can always get the latest at our web site you have your dot com or follow us on twitter and instagram akademi news m y m blue cross thanks very much for watching. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d.w. world heritage 316 get the map now. walk in immigrants. they know the police will stop the doctor because the

solution to their flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. i'm on and coveting are stuck in the spanish border area that are there waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starch generally 18th on t.w. . putting lipstick on a pig critics bash at historic investment tax between the e.u. and china it aims to rebalance economic ties bunch of pundits say it misses the mark on chinese labor rights. and critics say it's the nigerian government's own fault that lower oil prices it's drying up say culpas as the economy should have diversified musica. been facilities let's do business the. union and china have

struck a deal on a comprehensive investment agree that it comes after 7 years of talks e.u. hails the accord as a major win for automakers and other european companies seeking to do business with beijing but critics accuse brussels of ignoring human rights concerns and risking a rift with washington the deal still has to be finalized a ratified a process that could take several months. in the meantime let's talk about this without chief international editor richard richard what's in the deal and what's been left out. well ben this deal is all about making it easier for businesses from each side to respect it to invest in their respective areas so it's not a trade deal it's an investment deal it's about going to the country and trying to do business there so this is been a particular bug bear basically of the european side for many years as you just mentioned this deal has been in negotiations for some 7 years about the fact that

european companies haven't had as fair a crack at the chinese market as their chinese counterparts here in europe and examples of that would be for example that european companies have had to set up a joint venture with a chinese company in order to do business that or that even they've been forced to transfer their technology to a chinese partner in order to do business that the e.u. is hailing this deal is stripping away many of those practices and it's certainly found a lot of supporters here in germany in the business community business associations to be coming out during the course of the day really hailing this egremont as as a big deal but as for was not in the deal world is quite a bit an important thing is elements on investment protection now that is something that hasn't made it into the deal they're supposed to be negotiating about that over the next couple of years so they could be haggling on that front and the deal is also facing some really profound criticism on a couple of areas one is labor rights and practices within china and another is

whether is geopolitically sensible to be doing this deal at this moment now we've been speaking to one prominent critic his name is reinhard booty call for he is the leading china watcher in the european parliament which will have a very important say on this deal because it has to ratify it so let's take a listen to what he had to say. whenever somebody who's negotiated a deal tell soon that this has been the best deal ever the best deal in history you should be highly suspicious and indeed the european commission is putting lipstick on a pig here because this deal even though it has some advantages for european business is highly deficient in other. strategically important dimensions notably there has been no success in the negotiations with regard to the

protection of labor rights of the chinese neighbor arced and now this seems to be a new opening for strong transatlantic relations with an incoming biden administration led by a veteran leader who respects and values a partnerships why would the e.u. rush to finalize a deal just before that happens i understand why the chinese put pressure on finalizing the deal because they are very much afraid that the e.u. and the us would come together again and put up more efficient opposition to some of the injust practices that china represents but why would we give a hand to the chinese showing the middle finger to joe biden i think that's a strategic mistake was that richard has brussels stuffed up by moving on this

without wasn't it. it's quite interesting ben because the messages coming from the e.u. on this really quite mixed now on the one hand an e.u. official speaking today said you know was really quite defensive about it saying that this is all about europe asserting its strategic and autonomy the message seeming to be it's up to us what kind of deals we do with china but on the other hand the european union has done a lot of outreach already towards the biden administration saying that they want to cooperate with it very closely including on china so it's a little bit hard to kind of like find the coherence between those messages but whatever they're saying this is really not going to be a great start i mean biden's future national security advisor himself came out publicly recently really trying to get the europeans to hold off on this until they've really had time to consult on it and the europeans seem to have ignored

that now what's going to be interesting to watch in the months ahead which measure the early ratification what happens when this deal goes before her and her booty call for who we just saw and other critical people in the e.u. parliament that will be interesting to watch very good question rich a book of hers there for another view i spoke to force one more director of the asia and china program at the european council on foreign relations a pan-european think tank i started by asking how he described the deal. i think it's business rather than critics it's a product of the trade and it's a product of the german presidency by chancellor merkel who prioritize really. the industry issues and maybe that should be right for investment deal the only problem is and in china everything is political nothing is purely economy so my main worry when i look at the supposed draft of the deed nobody has the final text by the way and even today is not the final text but it there still have to be written in one

run a look at i worry about what's the section make it isn't what's the very thick ation mechanism there are lots of restrictions put on by the chinese side and you know depending on the depending on the capacities of a lot of accent on the mystique row and we know what that is in china very did so on arbitration mechanism in fact what passes as rb tradition is often a top level review by both parties meaning the e.u. and china an eventual difficulties which means a process that should be legal and straightforward runs the risk of being very political one way or another will tell me more about that because only. because an illegal mechanism is something that is it is extremely important in this sort of investment deal when we look at examples like tech talk t.j. i while away said teenie all of these chinese companies that have caused

a lot of controversy and tense relations between the us and the e.u. what's going to happen. on the one hand there's nothing to prevent either the e.u. or china from performing a so-called investment screening according to their rules and therefore forbidding an investment on national security grounds or something that passes national security or because there runs that's the positive side is that the hand of the e.u. is not hampered by the deed but what i worry about is how do you solve kwara was in the implementation in the implementation of actual investments you don't see a court of arbitration and you genetical court of arbitration you see a lot of recourse again to the misty close of both parties and to even to a negotiation on top there is going to be a review mechanism twice a year for example about this but to me it's not a legal process and as such it's

a dangerous process to manage the safety security and investment and that should concern investors whatever the opening looks like it is just let me quote china's ministry of commerce a spokesperson saying that the deal does give chinese companies a legally binding access commitments to the european investment market. are those commitments not strong enough or not tough enough in your opinion because i mean the european investment market is relatively open to the chinese already isn't it of course it is. what the premier is doing is confirming to the chinese companies that they have access to the european market which they always have the problem is the other way around it's above that you access of european companies to the chinese market which has always been more close in terms of investment because of

the way that china entered into the world trade organisation as a developing economy with special rights. to africa now and a double whammy for nigeria the corona virus is causing economic have it and then there is the pandemic squeezing of oil prices the country's main source of revenue africa's biggest oil producer suffered badly from the plunge in crude prices especially in the early months as you can see here of the crisis it's tumbled by about 20 percent this year critics say the government's. made this one cause this problem itself by not diversifying years ago but is also a deteriorating security situation in the north east which is causing alec attacks and mass kidnappings by militant groups main attempts to lure investors the country of folded unemployment and inflation rising while bank warns the economy risks unraveling. economist johnson says there were policy and economic missteps that

made it inevitable for nigeria to plunge into recession with the way did nigeria go wrong. thank you once again. the midget's i did with how did that 20 something government on t.v. decently wear full cost on lots of government to govern what they took control there is tremendous off production and we'll say see just what a government was focusing on trying to stimulate economy by providing a subsidy for consumption spending money on such that as an option up into them but if i put a lot of products is that us criticize one is on it fast structural audit critical so she. supports i mislike heads here on education so we saw it. for years. as we have for it said it we're on the necessary concept shows. increasing government debts and that we saw that the government finances we had

become in very difficult to manage because at some point the government was go to and from what and it's been used to some of it's not does it got to this picture that mr chip who the government has removed the fuel subsidy that was costing the government billions every year it's also raised electricity tariffs moved towards a market driven exchange rate i mean they're all big moves yes and that's said to good to know how. it could be netted somebody's going to make a situation that going to find is there may be compelling for the government or because that is going to be pretty certain to show we see it in the senate passed with a government that could actually pointed out that it moved subsidies differently to the products how that just did it. cries of interest to what it costs obviously effective and that the government also pushing to bring in private sector they're frustrated if you haven't previously the government what focus in on such

a front but it sure when you do know how to live in to provide to you don't just briefly how's it going to battle corruption and fix the security situation the types of things it needs to eliminate to attract investment just briefly. well for them it's a bunch of. processes believing it that's what's possible when interfaced used . those industriously to go to t.v. to say this is your goal we'll have to leave it there sorry business. conflicts you don't hear a lot about it in your feast days before more than 2 months folk area combust financial corruption and the government demonstrations my guest this week from sofia is very nice to such about mr labor and social culture survives she contributed stuff in the government which mistreating its most vulnerable people in violation of its human rights organizations clicks and for. 60 minutes.

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