so sick of it and at the end of the month it will be taken off your wages. but it was way cheaper than regular stores because the company bought it and even then i asked that. if you also had excellent medical care provided in-house for staff and their families i missed this and the company also had a football pitch for staff and a club where we could have dances to celebrate the festival joining us we were there all the time on friday we go home but on saturday we'll be back again. as i am the 1st. mama mercedes's now a distant memory priscilla serious economic crisis demand on the truck market has slumped a mercedes benz doe brazil has already seen redundancies and severance packages perhaps it's no coincidence that the management are not keen on a foreign t.v. crew taking a look around. its day

to have roberto's trip to south. asia but. follows the i. love it. nothing. wrong with. the old trucker songs help to keep his spirits up while he's on the road. to a hate. love. to give a. damn. thing as love. can't believe.

that last done. boy. who wouldn't fancy something new and better in life. but given the chance to swap i'm not sure my heart would be any. way the only thing we've been partners for so many years and my truck's never made me unhappy that he was it meets my expectations oh god it's a really sound truck no bill got there it's perfectly happy when i drive slowly on the cadillac but when i step on it because i have a deadline to meet also no problem with the doc i do not think that i can help it i like it. i feel comfortable with it even when i'm asleep missing the big thing for

me. let's. go live to sleep. eat. every cent counts sense roberto you have to watch your budget to end up with any money in your pocket that means only getting gas where he can get a discount. diesel here costs $77.00 euro cents. a coupe of the moment lose the free rate isolator but i get a discount if we don't move my seems to think of. it. all to me a plea. of. a. little money that we have to cover highway to. charges than everything else ourselves the companies

don't pass out that it. was as long as the drivers are on the road the wholesalers and distribution companies continue to play the market and the drivers. roberto goes to ask if a fax has arrived for him. he's expecting one his delivery order from the company for tuck. in the old i still don't know where i'll be taking the watermelons these are the forms of the strong love of the song was. the only information he does have is the approximate direction he's heading with his 1513 model truck and its 15 tons load of melons.

to. succeed his journey takes him through the state of maine us rice past an indian sugarcane fields. some lights on the horizon are not a city they belong to the enormous sugar refineries. another tiring day at the wheel comes to an end. it's friday and bankers short and pages is looking forward to the weekend he's checking the weather and. where in the state of pattern in the southwest of brazil. showdown lives here on a farm belonging to his mother in law together with a. he and his mini mercedes than their city

600000000. dollars excuse. me. is $23.00 jordan is $24.00 and the couple are sprucing up a small framed truck for their sunday excursion said. jordan bought it secondhand and restored it himself. for me so you think. that i've always been crazy about mercedes. lackey you know when i was 16 i made a paper model of this truck which i still have today. it's an old

love. the top hole and is taken from my father's 1st truck childhood memories. to that it was really difficult to find the original parts for the restoration. but i spent 2 years searching for the white protective hub cap for example. now they couldn't sit in the 19 seventies and eighties people thought that chrome elements would bring good luck and more jobs. this number plate holder was already made like that by mercedes to sort your feet. it's an original part that i found and restored to the history. of the club. and my t.c. i got married in december during the summer in brazil. there were 3 of us you me and our truck. we planned every little detail.

i had my dress on with slits down the side to make it easier to get in and out. when you made a little truck for our reading this wasn't going to say it's. yes we were so happy that day. many of the people in the region are the descendants of european settlers and economic refugees families who have now been here for 5 generations. to come you know or something to be my forefathers come from true here in germany thanks started to farm the fields here back then the brazilian government gave away land to immigrants says in the. immigrants who settled all the way down to floaty are no police on the coast of such a caterina state they also included many italians such as the forefathers apollo

luis. there's a little film playing in my head when i look at this vehicle my father used to drive it i learned how to drive while i sat on his lap. when i was 14 i started helping him at the wheel although i didn't have a license. polo is now a building contractor and a collector of vintage mercedes benz models. well the areas today covered with tower blocks used to be dense forest land. back then we were given permission to cut down trees. we would load up a truck like this with timber 4 times a day and then take it to hospital as a shop some floor not. for heating fuel.

paolo has tracked down veteran mercedes models only for the country he's now restored 8. legged. to. get. hold of his most recent acquisition is this 312. he was already 10 years old when i was born i was born in 67 and the truck in 57. trucks like this helped to build the roads in brazil by transporting materials. this was the 1st mercedes model the engine brakes tires and axles are all original parts. take it for a drive 1st to see if you like it says his mechanic. the starter the

clutch they're all from 1957. right here they do. you think you know there's no secretiveness engine was with a pair of pliers and some wire you'll never have a breakdown like this one. i'll start it up and we'll see why you should be obvious he. didn't give you. all those veterans are not exhibition items they're used for their original purpose thanks. they're in good shape and because they're more than 15 years old and i don't have to pay any road tax. the maintenance costs are really low to.

use the flat face as we call the $321.00 all the time insurance for a new one would be too expensive plus there's no place a new model can get to have this baby care and the my good. luck. that. the. billing shown paid to by sound when i knock on the tires tells me whether they have enough air in them to think i would like to also. there might be a puncture from a nail somewhere as a result was up until this turkey a tire like this currently costs $800.00 re ice which is too much. like it so after

a while i swap the front tires to the rear and then get them retreaded. is to say that only costs $550.00 s. . for me and i'd love to give it a general overhaul but earning so little and having to pay for all those things while on the road means you have to choose. what i think of the truck restored or feed your family so. i'm constantly having to postpone it and in the meantime the rust is getting worse oh my oh. 000000000. oh oh. it's sunday and roberto is around a 100 kilometers away from some fellow and wasn't. about to. go on but my boss. a.

lot of. the. casual mailbox man these guys were most goes to go with these melons you got to hold. the sprawling metropolis that never sleeps the main wholesalers market is located in the downtown area it's late by the time roberto arrives and he still has no delivery order but he heads down to the market nonetheless. the woman at the gate wants to know what goods he has on board having no delivery order means roberto will have to leave his truck by the entrance to the car park.

it will be safe there she assures him. roberto is now just 50 kilometers from home but he's worried that parking his truck unload there would put them at risk of being stolen. night and day trucks roll up here from all over brazil $12000.00 a day in total. was. many of the drivers have been waiting several days to unload their deliveries not a good sign for roberto. their patience man but sometimes the truck drivers get fed up especially when they see their fruit beginning to rot sometimes reports roberto they open their truck bed side panels and dump fruit onto

the street but unloading their anger like that will only hurt themselves he says they're basically throwing away their own pay charges but you can often wait for $4.00 days or more at the market and no one is paying for your meals let alone all those last days so. some drivers resort to trying their luck in the lottery. but. the baritone has had enough and goes looking for the representative of his customer for talk who he was supposed to meet here we know that he. was and this is where the city supermarkets and other retailers buy their property it's. against the backdrop of the economic crisis crime is a growing factor there have even been robberies at the market itself the newspapers have almost daily reports of trucks being stolen and their drivers abducted many do

not survive says roberto. the market is a good shooting location for pain that is thought out on a t.v. show. that caters to truck drivers oh good god no you know up to the day they got me all of them were barito is vocal in his praise of his beloved truck but silent about the conditions he has to work under. he finally tracks down his crew tack contact. so i know what they're doing the man is still making calls to find a buyer salvi i just want to unload mr. bring them to a company warehouse in about 2 hours of all if that are done all i want is my money . and all i have left is 2 and a half 1000 re ice about 640 euros for

a journey of 6000 kilometers and 13 work days to this vs one of the gulf. water on the levee nummy great complete the book to be shot of cantina got me on this you. could all see somebody come over to the us are a good sign yes. it was the auto makers 1st factory in latin america mercedes benz argentina was founded in 1951 specializing in trucks and buses. its management would later face accusations of having collaborated with the military dictatorship in argentina but its products are to this day i don't live by many in the country.

this is northeastern argentina. the heartland of the country's cowboys and rangers the gauchos. how to land. this small city in his province with a population of 45000 just so happens to be called say this guy. told. me my. dad told. me that. the region is the birthplace of the gauchos but also has strong associations with the national drink tonic week i'm at 81st can seem to by indigenous peoples. mercedes the town it doesn't take its name from the card which it predates by several decades missing it

is it's a name given to girls in spanish. a mercedes means our lady of mercy in the months dedicated to families she comes to visit school children at home on a. public transportation in the city of messages comprises a fleet of old passes all of them vintage mercedes benz models. that is drunk everywhere including at this family run car workshop. we saw god and his 19 year old son for condo are the owners of the buses used to ferry mess a day knows all across their city. and about an idea. i put on a video about our work and of course you will never sell them. and they're part of our family heritage and i want to say you know i did something handed down through the generations my father was

a bus driver and i've carried on the tradition and hopefully my son will to. make. it but in most of what we've only ever had mercedes they're easy to repair and are super reliable and that's. a comfortable ride for the passengers. there also was very affordable ride for people from the countryside come to work in the city. to. make them. according to my mother when i was 4 months old she would put me in a basket to write on the bus with my father. and i would always fall asleep it was like a swing and the noise from the box like a lullaby. for the youngest passengers it's their school bus.

and the other. when one of them drives past so i can tell from the sound which model it is. it's. the suckers have 3 buses which set out from the main square in 3 different directions. and his province was also $100.00 destinations for european settlers in the 19th century such as the soccer family. the family jassim few may have swiss german roots. the solders host reunion events a few years ago we had a gathering of $600.00 solders so. i checked our family tree and i'm the 5th generation here in argentina yes a lucky interconnects young. to

love and to care for till god was part say the sagas and when the seats for the passengers have reached the end of their tether here in my state is people give the aging trucks and new lease of life. no these eggs weren't broken by the bumpy ride that happened while we were loading the truck say the 2 men up front there are the sons of the city's main vegetable trader who say be a down to. the convenience store is also

a family run enterprise. this is their boss their father the sabeel dante. the real i bought this off the solders. it was the 1st public bus in our city and i've had it for 24 years it's never had a breakdown. more than the one. i would never sell and i would argue that such a great boss again. where no back in brazil. it's sunday and the young bankers are dan and his wife leticia a town official are often

a day trip to the coast and then on to the mountains. it's a region with a scenic landscape that the roads are lined with pine tree forests. geo. plays it was his way to get home when i turned 18 i told my father that i wanted to be a truck driver you see the way my father said no way you can't make a living out of that but they don't you know i'm grateful that he said no i could use the same i really like being a banker yes of course i would also fancy working with a truck the old out here and you know. right i drive during the day and you at night i reckon we'll do that one day more.

plain. joining the couple on their day out is paolo luis from floating. there touring the landscape there. and the foothills of the set of. downton range. that. hollow is eager to prove that his elf 312 built in 1957 will have no problem scaling the 1500 metre high sound. which it

does passing by a new truck that appears to have broken down. was dented truck soon comes to the rescue. many. people old timers on the other hand reach the top in top form where they have a fair share of admirers to the delight of the proud owner of politics. on. the team and. good trucks don't age they just change owners who did one really believe clearly leverage and they never let us down unlike the new trucks that have to be towed and

you have seen the proof there was a few. you know every and then out all their antiques veterans come to them and. put. me in. conflict so you don't hear a lot about it in europe these days but for more than 2 months follow kariya compulsed finance you corruption and see government demonstrations my guest this week from sofia is the need for such a bus minister and social policy why does she continues are stuck in the job it's mistreating its most vulnerable people in violation of its human rights over again conflicts of. 30 minutes. for the.

story of producing and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied dry land their fathers were soldiers from the french colonies. at least half of german children had a hard time because they were a reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and control culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. we call them the children a sham. starch january 11th on d. w.

. the be. this is day to be news line from but i learned by global party happening mostly without spectators fireworks my top cities from sydney to all closed up tight terriers the world says hello to 20 trying to walk with her on a virus running rampant or farts is there are visor people to stay home and watch the show on t.v. also on the program last trucks cross between the european union great britain the head of the u.k.'s final departure from the e.u. single market at midnight brussels time and take a huff century. i'm on the eve of

a year it will see you have an office and german chancellor i'm going to map calls for patience in tackling the tanganyika a crisis she describes as a once in a century chapter. unfold gal welcome to the program. well the pandemic has put a serious damper on new year's eve parties the shia one of the 1st countries to ring in 2021 new zealand was able to celebrate with. 19 white towns in the pacific nation crowds were allowed to gather without any need for masks or social distancing to celebrate the start of the new year. straightly at the traditional a spectacular sydney harbor bridge fireworks went ahead the recent new outbreak of

people had to stay home and watch the show on the. lights and laser show although jackie right the 1st isn't important is the chinese new year which will be celebrated in february. thousands of north koreans masked up. sticks of. wood of a it's coming. here in europe the united kingdom will leave the e.u.'s customs union a single market at midnight central european time finally bringing an end to its membership of the european union the u.k. will then trade goods with the 27 member bloc under a new treaty agreed with brussels last week britain's departure brings down the curtain on nearly 5 decades of e.u. membership. goods from britain role of the ferry at cal

a france it's the last day of the year and the last day of the united kingdom place by e.u. rules from midnight brussels time the u.k.'s membership of the single market and customs union ends and with it friction free trade. the deal struck on christmas eve will ensure that goods will continue to flow without tariffs but increased red tape such as checks and paperwork could cause delays for whole is. one of the concepts the smallest claim even just a couple more minutes for drivers to prove that their merchandise is customs approved with the right documents and the right barcode if that takes just a couple of minutes we know that even with normal activity there is a risk of those infamous traffic queues at all on wednesday the british parliament voted on the trade deal agreed with the e.u. lawmakers had just hours to scrutinize the 1200 page document can only

a few voted against it even though many agreed that it did not fulfill boris johnson's breaks it promises. but for the prime minister the goods were delivered. here it is for a few good. question you ask yourself this is how i really. yes. deal is good for you but also. at the port of dover the last day of the year began with clear skies and clear passage to europe 4 and a half years after britain's voted to leave the european union a cliff edge breaks it has been avoided but rough seas could be just over the horizon. d.w. correspondent barbara faisal is in the french quarter of callaway i asked her how people there are viewing the new reality when the borders tight at midnight. people are if it said you do feel among the inhabitants here

a certain amount of free correct few who work for the port because the ports here is really what color he lives off this is their main existence will mainstay really and that is for them really a moment of a certain regret because they've they felt that they were so closely tied to britain there was no really there was no border there was really nothing between than just this bit of water here which is just 37 kilometers nothing more or less and so they. are said but they also in a way are quite matter of fact and say they will have to learn to live with it if this is what they wanted then we can't help it we will just have to arrange ourselves with it we just have to sort of make do and yes it will become more complicated and yes we are using them as sort of close friends but they will still stay neighbors that's pretty much what everybody here says. professional who

don't use drugs and understand alex forrest whiting. alex so we've had a torturous a for a half years of negotiations and political turmoil in europe and in the u.k. . what will actually change well the way it's going to be much more paperwork and red tape but i think one of the big things that will change is the end to frame movement and that means that for example british citizens will no longer have an automatic right to live to what to study to retire in the in the same for european citizens who have been to go to the u.k. it will be more changes to immigration rules visas of the u.k. for example bringing in a new points system which would make sure that e.u. citizens are treated the same as non e.u. citizens they will also be issues for tourists ok if it's a short trip of somebody going to the u.k. or to the. they won't have to have a visa but they will have to have probably have traffic insurance there will be

more complications if they want to take their pets abroad and of course people have to stand in different lines at ports but northern island for example will still have to follow some of the e.u. rules and that's because it's part of ireland and so they didn't want to haunt border across that and chip route which is a very tiny british territory next to spain it's just been agreed that they will continue with free movement they will become a member of schengen to make sure that there is no harm. what do you think it's been is the biggest question mark hanging over the post directly relationship i think it's all to do with services because for the u.k. the service industry is worth 80 percent of the british economy and yet this deal that was thrashed out between boris johnson the e.u. didn't really mention that nobody quite knows what the rules are going to be how will that affect for example the city of london will british banks be able to sell

their products to the e.u. we really don't know at the moment and of course that seems crazy but you have to remember that with boris johnson this was all about politics this was about taking back control the british prime minister putting perhaps more focus on fish which is worth no point no 4 percent to the british economy then to financial services just so he could say he'd won so you and i we've been talking about this not for the best part of 5 years. talked as a whole and at midnight i'm very sorry to disappoint you phil but no it does not this is going to go on and on because there are still so many issues that haven't been mentioned haven't been thrashed out and let's just mention one other scotland scots and remember the majority of people that did not vote for brics it there is now a very real chance that the u.k. could end up 5th uniting scotland getting independence so it can rejoin the e.u.

at some later date i think we can say that this is probably the end of the beginning of brics as i think so 1st why to see you again of a new year. you know take a look now at some of the other international stories the u.s. says it will inch increase tariffs on a range of a new goods including wine it's the basis development in a 16 year battle over subsidies that both sides pay their aircraft manufacturers boeing and airbus new charges are being imposed on an airplane parts as well as brand is from france a. recent pakistan have arrested $24.00 people after a hindu temple in the northwestern town of tara was satellites destroyed several muslim clerics were among those taken into custody the temple became a target of muslim protests after the minority continuously was given permission to renovate it. the vatican has announced pope francis will not hold new year's eve on new year's day ceremonies because of

a flare up of saturday causing i mean this back and leg and the pope is suffer from the condition in the past those the 1st time in the years that ill health was causing to new needs a significant outbreak of the. german chancellor angela merkel has called on germans to help the pandemic by sticking to the rules in the weeks and months ahead it was likely to be her final new year's address the chancellor us and the country is facing hard times but hope is in sight now that vaccinations have become the corner of the it was pundit me of the coronavirus endemic was and is a once in a century political social and economic challenge the us and has to it's a historic crisis that has demanded a great deal of all of us and too much of some of us if i started i know that mustering this is story effort has required tremendous trust and patience on your part and continues to do so. there were chancellor angela merkel the news of the

whole of her new year address here on the dublin in just a moment. now is the coronavirus pandemic and here are some of the latest developments around the world starting in the u.k. which is seen nearly a 1000 coffin 1000 deaths for 2 days in a row 3 quarters of england's population has been placed on the strict is left of the very strict sions to try and counter the rapidly spreading a new virus variant it's a very senior infections a bright shop it's more than 23007000 more than the day before it's also seen the highest number of covered 19 the latest deaths in new york and china has approved its 1st covered 90 vaccine for general use state owned assign a farm says it is 79 percent effective but hasn't published a full trial data but as we say goodbye to 2020 d.w. correspondents around the world have been asking people what they're hoping for next year there is of course a common thread they all wanted to be very different to the issue for me.

i let him and i wish good health for every person for everybody in germany in 2021 on the front of my day i hope sydney to anyone is actually putting their best good to see me who is and actually just like being a bit more free and i like to meet i'd out but this is just so much fear and it would be so nice to be masked the to be able to meet family friends to be actually hug them you know just just be able to do the normal things again yeah that's my hopes. for myself i hoping that i can live a better life. i want a good family and for life to just be ok. i don't want a life of struggle although in life there is struggle no matter what nothing is. going on or you any idea or not i just saw. i hope we can go back to work again i'm a dancer and would like theatres to open again so that humanity can find its smile

. that i make it that 2022. are all. you know thousands of people every day die my age i just want to make of 2020 through. things crust now a virtual performance is a nothing new for the arts and culture sector which has been the main thing i come in $1000.00 shutdowns i shouted venue's deprive them of their audiences this year and institutions found in of us have ways to stay creative i'm connecting. you hold a global celebration in the middle of a pandemic sure if you go digital musicians from around the world went online the sheet to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer from beethoven. museums like denmark's national gallery found a way around corona by offering 3 d.

virtual tours. performers took to social media actor patrick stewart cited shakespeare sonnets see. the pianist igor leave it. to the theatres in opera houses like those here in new york stream the performances around the world. clubs to 2 or found new safer locations to party like this gig on a berlin church rooftop. musicians found a way to drezner symphonic orchestra performed on the roof of an apartment block. 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. didn't stop the salzburg festival which went ahead as planned albeit with fewer people social distancing and new safety measures. this would have been ashamed of our timidness had we 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 the . other berlin state opera held open air concerts for free. i can't wait to share this great music. good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be part of the live experience being. here thousands of publishers from around the world came together on mine.