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starting today drivers in the u.k. get full benefits after link the court battle so is it the beginning of a shift in the gig economy we'll take a closer look at africa in particular where good platforms including ober have been growing in recent years. also want to show germany should see solid growth in 2021 despite its lock downs cold comfort for the service industry which has taken a beating. and can you overtake south africa as the condit super avocado exporter

but it comes at a cost of. clear and welcome to the show i'm seeing beers in berlin it's good to have you with us minimum wage paid time off pension contributions those are some of the benefits that over $70000.00 drivers in the u.k. began receiving wednesday after the company granted them worker status following a long court battle so does that market shift in the global good economy well 1st there are still questions left to be answered in the u.k. . it was the day he urged beijing this model came to a sudden stop driver celebrating victory over the right hailing platform at the u.k.'s top court last month after judges ruled that bar must provide workers' rights to thousands of drivers. i'm just so delighted thrilled and relieved that this day has arrived and we've got the rights which. no one has implemented

that ruling offering to pay minimum wage holiday pay and pension contributions today is an important day for all drivers in the u.k. and the reason for that is because from today any driver who earns on the platform and that's over $70000.00 drivers in total will be able to be paid for holiday time they'll be enrolled in a pension and they'll be able to earn at least a national living wage as a floor and not a ceiling. critics however see the benefits are based on time driver spend paired with a customer not time spent waiting for work despite this from the court the judge would also owns the funding of employment but the purpose is the legislation the claimants working touring was not limited. to periods when they were actually driving passengers but the destination. it also included any period when the group

would look at interview. on a list say the ruling could have huge ramifications for the exploding gag economy not just drivers but cyclists too not just the u.k. but father of field as government wrestle with the distinction between workers and contractors. could be taking a trip back to court soon over claims its new changes still don't comply with employment lol. all right we have to come back to this theme in a moment 1st let's take a look at some other global business stories making news. falling coronavirus infection numbers in south africa have prompted move tons of to increase its flights to the country starting at the end of march the german flag carrier had reduced the number of its trips from frankfurt to cape town after the south african city was declared a risk area earlier in the year. the m.w. says it expects profits grow significantly this year as the economy recovers from

the pen demick the german luxury car maker says it's speeding up its transition to electric vehicles spike lockdowns 2020 and a strong thanks to growing sales in china. new numbers show tesla is getting 5800000000 euros to build its factory near berlin that's according to documents obtained by german public t.v. tesla's 1st play in europe is set to open in july it will make up to up to $500000.00 vehicles per year. but german manufacturing exports are helping a still recovering economy there that's according to the country's council of economic experts today it cut the 4 year growth forecast for europe's biggest economy to 3 point one percent from an earlier forecast of 3.7 percent and recovery has been an even across germany and while manufacturers are managing to weather the crisis the service sectors continue to struggle duster production has been picking up as demand for german goods rises. especially alongside recovering trade in china

and the united states for 2022 the council of experts experts rather predicts growth of 4 percent. and i'm joined now by monica schnitzer she's a professor of economics at the big macs of millions university in munich and she's one of the 4 members of the german council of economic experts which released the prognosis today professor good to have you on the show your projection today of 3 point one percent lower than the earlier 3.7 percent projection still solid growth so is this good news or is it bad news i think it's good news because in the 2nd way the pandemic and yes that is growing so in that sense it's going to get much better at doing that and i ask you know in the fast way where we had lots of interruptions often. and now this is not an issue as our industry is an. industry is looking well but all of us who are here in germany can look around and see that much of the shops the restaurants that we go to normally are closed and

yet we're projecting a pretty solid growth figure does that mean that government spending is making up a lot of that output that's true but it's also that this part of what we are the c.b.c. in restaurants closed shops like it was they really only make up a small pot of my company so they're really try having far as our economy is industry output for instance and it's always says that i'm not. the economist and working so in some ways though while growth may be solid in some ways the service sector can still i guess the pain that they're going through can be hidden for example i mean many businesses could become insolvent. there is a risk that someone at least this is really kind and so on actually it's on its rates right now asked yet have gone down trying to keep the cost of this suspension off that you have to get insolvency and also because of this house being helped out

of the subsidies of the government rizzi a pig out of insolvencies but is that it will be restricted mostly to a part of the economy that's really a rather small so you don't share this concern among some economists that there could be the zombie companies so-called zombie companies that are basically walking dead companies who have been receiving benefits and then once they can declare insolvency we'll but they're sort of basically going up the gears of the economy that doesn't seem to be a major issue some companies maybe have now not the how i mean that's really different and difficult to differentiate at this point because you have to move fast at myspace has to move fast but i don't expect to see any numbers of insolvency that really will check out as the financial stability of germany because of the overall share of this company is really rather on the. professor the council projected today that germany would see lower growth than the rest of the e.u. and 2021 of the average why is that why it's not on the growth because we may have

to lesson last year and you see that those companies can trace that not just have it last year and now expected to approach and that's the same actually for germany and last year a project that they gemini would be hit and then we would have higher growth rates this year so that always goes hand in hand all right marcus that's our member of the german council of economic experts thank you for your time thank you. or we go over to kenya now the country has overtaken south africa as the continent's largest avocado exporter and 2020 export revenues sort of 33 percent through october so it's little wonder perhaps that more and more companies are moving toward avocados but that's putting another important industry at risk along with kenya's wildlife. an elephant at the foot of mount kilimanjaro it's

a site that attracts hordes of tourists to national park on the border between kenya and tanzania every year but that can soon change the fence around these avocado fields blocks that came on a wildlife corridor or the migratory path for many animals from one grazing area to the next the kenyan company killing a fresh operates the farm the manager can't understand the critics after all he's provided work to 300 people in the region another source of agreement. making the. video. which around 2000 fans are on the move in this area scientists vicki fishlock observes there are migratory movements on behalf of an environmental protection organisation. we can't just tell elephants oh please don't go over there and you have babies a big animals they build those huge bodies off. and they need lots

of space that's why the mass i try my lets the elephants graze and water in peace around their territory. and ideas. for animals to go to chew lower sabo will be blocked and that will be a big problem but it will also cause a big human wildlife conflict because they'll try to pass through routes inhabited by people. this is why we must bring our land together to create that corridor. and there have been reports that the fence has already been damaged by animals 3 times in the past month and if there are no more animals to sea in the national park the tourists will also stay away and many people will lose their jobs. well it's cuba's best known export and gold cigars last year the cuban cigar industry struggled under the weight of the crowd of ours endemic u.s. sanctions and bad weather strong demand from abroad helped save the industry from.

young. tending to bacco plants that will be made into cuba's famous handled cigars the farmer has struggled like the rest of the cuban cigar industry with the economic fallout of the pandemic u.s. sanctions on cuba have also made it hard to secure diesel fuel and fertilizers and unusually wet weather last year didn't help but our sea is hopeful this year will be different. it has been a little hard due to the health situation that the country is going through. the weather has not been favorable but we have to be there working to see if we can achieve a good harvest. so that this year will be as good as last year or even better. the war on. exports have been keeping the industry afloat

cuba sells around $100000000.00 cigars called poor abroad each year demand from overseas held up last year as smokers bought premium cigars with the money saved on travel and entertainment the part to cost cigar factory in havana kept running even during the worst days of the pandemic. nor was it going but going to we are not going to say that it is a negative impact we are simply a little limited but an impact that will cause unemployment lack of cigar exports this is not been the case we have continued tax port. does things the worst is now behind the industry partic os for its part hopes to boost production to almost 5000000 cigars this year. and here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you. right helling out goober has started treating it $70000.00 drivers in britain as workers instead of contractors that follows a supreme court ruling means that drivers can now receive

a minimum wage paid holidays and even pensions it's unclear what it means for over's operations in other countries. that's it for me in the days of the business team to check us out online dot com slash business i'm superior that's watching. to the point strong opinions clear positions international perspectives. the arctic ice cap is melting away make me to easy to exploit the region's huge reserves of natural resources 3 major powers the us china and russia vying for the biggest possible shamble for can't see how explosive is their rivalry. to the point . in 60 minutes on d w. in the height of climate change. africa's most of.

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