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hello i'm christine it's good to have your company a national shutdown of universities has ended in south africa off to violent protests last month the students' union and called for the shutdown of the country's 26 university until government of great to cancel all historical student debt now that has not happened but the union says its end of the shutdown often meetings with the minister of universities and other stakeholders now in addition to the cancellation of debt black students all also calling for the government to increase funding for them they say they cannot afford to. for weeks now students across south africa have been taking to the streets fighting against financial exclusion of students the protests. started here at woods university in

johannesburg more than $6000.00 students were slated to be thrown out because they had accumulated too much tuition dept you see a whole new one of them she owes the university over 3000 euros i'm not able to say just that at all of course we are angry i am a 1st generation university. my parents didn't go to university especially coming from the player community we understand that these opportunities haven't always been available for us so we are very deliberate and very decisive in saying that this this is not going to be nice to us one more time the 22 year old already received degree she completed her studies with good grades and now wants to go to grad school to help improve her future career prospects but her course doesn't qualify for government support it is a big deal you know where i come from it's not just about needs not to my dick lee it is my parents it is my family this my community it is those who might be you

know looking up to me and saying ok i want to do what she's doing but yeah i know the pressure is definitely there father students in south africa in fees to their universities here davits university alone fees worth more than 50000000 euros that's almost double the amount that it was 2017 the universities are hoping for the governments to intervene but the big question in the end of the day is can south africa really afford free university education for. the budget for the state run this fast program which covers tuition and offer us a stipend for needy students as more than tripled in the last 5 years yet it's not enough says the head of the university's association the university's depend on the income raised by fees because subsidies and donations are dwindling 50 to 60 percent of the students in the system qualify for this. if it gives you these 3 for the. the question is we really don't have. a system with. the

system or. mixture of the load base of the system we don't have such a system for students that fall outside of the of the national. students financially it's. that is what we think the government needs to focus on. when a passer by was shot by police during the protests it was clearly anymore city between sides had 3 each boiling point despite several requests the minister of higher education declines to be interviewed by g.w. lucy who was lucky the student association managed to raise funds to cover her fees none the less she plans to continue demonstrating until everyone has free access to university education. and i'm now joined by southern africa are splendid hadrian krishi filed the reports that you just saw and he joins me now from capetown good to see adrian said tell us more about this national shutdown which has now ended

so basically the protest started earlier this year already when initially 1st 1st year students try to register for their courses but they could not register for than this 1st program the the state support scheme for poor students because simply the funds where exhausted there was no money there anymore and although the government said well we're working on it we will find a solution some students started protesting then afterwards around about the same time actually some university said we have to exclude some of our students from the classes those that have accumulated so much historical dept that we do not believe that they will ever be able to settle these steps and this is when the whole protest when nationwide we had protests in several big cities happening and it almost escalated a few weeks ago when police used excessive force tear gas against peaceful protesters and that was also the time when we saw as you've seen in the report the case of a young man who was just a bison and was shot by

a police bullet. right so that national shut down and the process that you have for into. it came of course as you were saying before the university said that they would be suspending the students who have accumulated all this outstanding mission fees. the universities have now made it turn around tell us more about that well so basically it's not really a turnaround of the universities only it's kind of a solution they found but it is not really a long term solution so basically this have now well for for the democrat year last year basically people who accumulated debt they do not have to pay it back for now so that basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of early say hulu in our report the student who was

supported by her student association but also some universities said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as he was saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observers have say that this is further excessive facing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day you have 3 players to the story here and you can kind of understand all the stories they all do have a point 1st of all you have students especially those so-called middle missing middle how they're called here those are students whose parents more than 20000 euros a year they are not eligible to apply for government funding at the same time many

of the families cannot afford to pay fees that are often $34000.00 euros for one year even at a public university and also the students it's very difficult for them to apply for a loan to cover their for their fees so they have a hard time and you also have other cases like you in our report she basically 10 supposed grad program that is also not supported by the scheme and because she doesn't have money she would not be able to basically study and this is of course unfair i mean also from my background i studied in germany for me it was given to have free access to education from school to university and enormous privilege so of course i can fully understand her and the students position but on the other hand you also have the universities here basically they are running a business in the end of the day they have to look at their expenditure and their income if they don't get money from student fees they will eventually not be able to pay lecture us and the last play of the government of course and i do sincerely believe that many in government do really want to make university education

accessible for everyone there's no doubt about that the big question here is money south africa is an emerging economy and there is not enough money especially if you look at the current pandemic that made things worse the debt to g.d.p. ratio in south africa is almost 100 percent because of the pandemic so that means all that the country makes in one year that's the amount of debt that this has accumulated already so it will be very difficult to pay that back on the one hand and on the other hand you have to make difficult decisions on what do you want to fund students or unemployed people or infrastructure i mean chrissie you know it yourself are some of the schools public schools in the country are looking like they're in the terror. right and in the end of the day of course the government also has to sort of keep an eye on making sure that you have the right amount of graduates and that they find jobs you can just sign students you have to make sure they find employment afterwards because otherwise what's the point of reading graduates on the market right that's entry increase reporting thank you.

that's a museum capital tunis is home to one of north africa is most important weekends but the new groom in all its beauty is creating a problem for the people that live around its banks they constantly complain of flooding and swarms off mosquitoes from the water but environmentalist have a different problem they say the witness has become a dumping ground for construction waste generated by the growing number of off building projects in the city. natural beauty and a dumpsite see jr groom is both the veteran at the gates of the capital tunis has been degraded for years but urbanization and construction projects since the early 1900 to $2.00 entirely new business districts here according to a government study more than 1800000 cubic metres of solid waste have been disposed

off in the lagoon in the last decade the government is well aware of the problem. the look cool and there goes daily fillings and this reduced their construction and that kick dumps if you do nothing it will disappear from the site. which would be dramatic because the lagoon is an important entering site for about $100000.00 my kotori birds including rare species the government has set up a restoration project but environmentalists are not happy about it. only as an s.s.h. and friends of birds are not against the development project in general but to be against a variant that was presented and accepted which does not take into account all the ecological specificities of the site. the project will involve the deepening of the lagoon a problem say the environmentalists because this will change the character of the

rest lent. she give up a listener lost some ducks to feet like ducks that can dive on the other hand the ducks that are surface ducks will no longer be able to find food and that means they will not remain any more in the sweat lent and neither will bathing birds like the pink flamingos as she. says she called me for more was. by the government rejects this criticism. that we were going to our project in the long term environmental impact studies and taking into consideration . as well as the hydrological aquatic environmentalists and ecological investec we need. x. needs to be taking weapon because to see jimmy lagoon as a forced most significant wetland in north africa is an important message for coping with climate change in the region. and that is

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well but. industry is controlling your thoughts the great books of the 20th century. present day hoaxers. raising. a 3rd. british singer celeste has been called the next queen of soul. or hear about her sudden rise to fame in her own words here on arts and culture and a little later on the show fighting to the death and style the intricately designed armor of ancient rooms gladiators. and also on the show a german city promoting centuries of jewish history as one of europe's oldest

synagogue. welcome to arts and culture well not that many debut albums draw as much attention as the one celeste put out earlier this year she says she made the $21.00 tracks on not your muse not for commercial success but just to be how she likes them and it seems a lot of other people like them too this week celeste was nominated for 3 brit awards. behind the scenes with one of britain's biggest new talents celeste epiphany. just to design a simple picture who's making the best out of the pandemic restrictions. on. it's been

a year of breakthroughs for the singing despite the kimono bias and look. 7 7 7 i think everyone in the last year and everything as being like somewhere in suspense and i just enjoy what i'm doing really and i think the. the sort of stardom thing is never like the thing at the end of it that i'm like looking to see what that point looks like or feels like and i guess some people it may seem like in the waiting room i don't really feel like that because i'm still you know chipping away every day or doing something and i feel like in my stride of things.

like strange. it's almost like. a song becomes like the map of my understanding of like myself and how i see the world and how i see my relationships with other people and. i used to write diaries and then i used to write poems and so at the age where i really needed. it could have been anything really it's just music became the thing that presented itself was so fluent to me. california parents. british mother.

a fishing village on the edge of a city right. this fibrin culture seems the city. of making music. something that had always been so significant even before i started to make music myself was like those times from my granddad to he would always usually have like me mr franklin i left it in live c.d.'s in the back of the call and i was hearing i put a spell on you buy me this month and the 1st time and i remember kind of like going like that in my sea because her voice was so deep and it kind of just like through

the call put a spell on you. celeste experimented with folk music cause electronic music but she kept coming back to jess and so following in the footsteps of great african-american singers and just and have music. cold. with. me one of the i used to was like we have to have nash try all this high and one summer i just took it out and i saw in my head like after the fast time and some mothers had come up to me and said all of my daughter has like yours but she feels too shy to come i take a picture to show you how just is just to show her that my you know me well you have that thanks.

that's the message of celeste debut album not. since a sudden rise to stardom comparisons to amy winehouse adele and aretha franklin have been on avoidable. now. i guess something that comes with. a heightened level of expectation for where you should be it's kind of just up to you to kind of set that aside and make your own way and kind of show people like why you're different.

today it's all about music but an ancient rome pop star status was given to the strongest fighters gladiators who battled wild animals and each other to the death to entertain crowds a new exhibition in italy looks at gladiator history and legend. on the big screen they alone heroes fighting for justice in reality plenty of us fought for fame money all their own freedom. this exhibition at the national archaeological museum in naples shows the history on display here. and their weapons paintings of gladiators risking their lives. because. it is mostly came from the fathers reaches of the empire.

they were captured slaves other times they were exogenous but they could also be free men who decided to pursue this career. most just for twice a year at most and yet very few made it past the age of the. there are deadly shows in the arena where in some ways not so different from big football matches today. the truth of it what if it all did for you there were many stalls outside the amphitheater selling takeaway food. it was also very noisy there will be music marking the various performances. there's no doubt that gladiators were at the center of ancient rome entertainment industry visitors can now see the part they played in roman society on the museum's website and when italy's code with restrictions on lifted in person as well. from italy

now to germany where 76 years after the holocaust the city of all sorts is now rediscovering and proudly promoting its jewish history the city boasts remnants of jewish communities dating back to the 11th century. before it is famous for its medieval city center attracting millions of visitors exploring the city's rich jewish history. it's for this reason that arafat is applying to be included on the unesco world heritage list. after its old synagogue a major tourist attraction has been very well preserved. it's a big one has been working on efforts you nisco application for over a decade. after art applied because we believe that these edifices are so unique that they should be protected as part of humanity's cultural

heritage he even writes. as a mentor. we know of many jewish settlements and communities that existed during the middle ages but most remnants of them have vanished those who got kind of talking some real. time to. rabbi alexander who moved to alpha several years ago to become part of the local jewish community reestablished after world war 2 after its jewish community now has some 800 members with. there is hardly a synagogue anywhere in europe or to has existed as long as this one. that is why i would recommend coming to our 1st of all to see this exceptional synagogue. the synagogue seller boasts a vast collection of 13th century gold and silver coins jewelry and other items.

upstairs in the former ball room historic hebrew manuscripts are on display. next to a medieval jewish bath or mix discovered in central air force in 2007. major construction work was needed after a section of the riverbank wall collapsed. we discovered vestiges of an old cellar in the process. we continue digging and found brick work not found in any cellars in this city. doesn't equality it was clear at that point we had found a mikvah. for. the city's so-called stone house isn't far dating back to the 13th century it was once home to jewish residence. the city began carefully analyzing the stone edifice in 2015

its ceilings feature a unique will themed paintings which were created by the residents. here over 100 gravestones from the former jewish cemetery on display. after jewish medieval heritage could make it onto the unesco list the 1st in germany. and this year germany is celebrating 1700 years of jewish history keep tuning into arts and culture and check out d.w. dot com slash culture for more i'll leave you now with the royal opera chorus in the london in their 1st performance all together and a year and you may recognize the anvil chorus from verities opera it's about saudi season.

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are we alone it's a fundamental question of humanity trying to figure out whether or not. life existed on mars pretty clear water was there quite abundance while that would be interesting so on mars the atmosphere is 100 of what we have here on earth it's very very cold and at the past it's like we have started you could imagine bringing some surprises and you know if you do and build a little self-contained pressured vehicle or vessel which is be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive forever we're going to have through off the earth eventual and i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere.

this is the job you news live from berlin security alert in washington d.c. the u.s. capitol is on lockdown afterward also from the socket ramming a vehicle into 2 police officers assaults but as been shot and is being held in custody. taiwan's deadliest train is also indicates the packed train derailed inside the tunnel also colliding with a truck at least $51.00 people have been killed and dozens. it's more injured. also coming up. in

a story count over of power in asia but it an alleged coup attempt raises questions over the stability of the new president's government. we begin this program with breaking news from washington d.c. where the u.s. capitol has been placed on lockdown after a car rammed a barricade outside the capitol injuring 2 police officers fox news correspondent jackie heinrich as post just posted this video currently showing emergency services responding to this incident the area was put on alert after supporters of former president trump arrives at their on january 6th but officials recently began scaling back a barrier is put up afterwards citing a reduced security threats. on this breaking story let's cross over to

our washington bureau chief enos pull in is what else do you know about this incident so far. the u.s. capitol police is reporting that a car rammed into at least 2 capitol police officers the suspect is in casa de and both officers were reported to be endangered and all 3 of them have been transported to the hospital they are are. coming reports in that the college driver came out wielding a knife but that's not really confirmed this is just referring to some reports from some colleagues has anything transpired yet about the attack all the circumstances of this time. there's still conflicting reports and it's probably too easy to say and we shouldn't jump too far or to any conclusion at this point we do not know if there were any motives behind it even so.

there are as i just mentioned some unconfirmed reports that the person came out of the car with a knife and after that shots were fired the big questions here are now was it a lone actor or is there more to come you know we mustn't forget the memory of generally 6 is still very very vivid in the capital of the united states here in washington and it's not only the police who is in high alert it's every washingtonian i'm sure who is informed now about this incident incident and it's really boring the more my it's be to come. is you mentioned the rising that. he was 6 and how could something like this happen today after the tightening of security measures following the storming of the capitol.

well they just lowered the fencing off to 4 months of the fence surrounded the entire capital as as you just mentioned as a responds to the generally 6 storming of the capitol by blow calls just has been calling for the fence to come down because they're just living there they want to enjoy their life spring is bank here we are just entering the easter week and people just one and so are so urgently come to bake and come back to a normal life here in washington but we shall see how this will turn now it's over the next hours and days to come of her chief in washington d.c. in a sport thank you eunice. i will keep you of course updated on the situation that throughout our program and later at least 51 people have been killed in a train crash in taiwan the crowded train appears to have come off the rails inside

a tunnel after hitting a truck dozens more were injured in the incident in eastern taiwan many travelers were on the move during a holiday weekend in which people traditionally tend to family graves the government has ordered an independent investigation after the initial rescue operation is complete. shuffling to safety one train carriage roof at a time these passengers are being rescued from taiwan's deadliest railway disaster in decades. and all of a sudden i just fell from my seat to the ground i hit my head and saw it was bleeding. the train crowded with more than 400 people to rail in a tunnel after slamming into a truck that rolled onto the tracks from a nearby construction site the impact ripped some carriages of posh and crumpled others. rescuers worked for hours to reach trapped passengers.

many of whom were rushed to hospital. many people were crushed under the train seats from the collision and there were others on top of the sates so those at the bottom were crushed and lost consciousness. the accident comes at the start of a busy annual long holiday weekend when taiwan's roads and railways a usually packed investigations into the cause of the crash are ongoing there has been a joyously is standing by for us inside the hospital where the seriously injured are being treated very close to the crash site of course joyce what's the latest. so those search and rescue efforts have already and dutch and other bodies of the 50. have already been sent to a nearby funeral home for family members to identify and among the 50.

dead one of them is a french national here is 28 years old and he died just 2 days before his. so what else do we know about the victims the dead and the injured. there is a total of $160.00 injured passengers and 2 of the. japanese nationals and one of them is from a cow and i am currently in a major hospital in washington near the crest site and 55 of the injured presenters were sent here to this hospital and unfortunately one died and she is say 6 year old girl and her child here or sister is also in the intensive care unit now. so the by no any more details about what exactly happened

. it is believed that a crane truck downslope. from a construction site near the tunnel and hit the train which was housing by. the authorities a stereo investigating whether the truck was improperly pocked which caused the incident. to that your correspondent joins the they're bringing up to date thank you very much to us. has sworn in a new president's the 70 marks the 1st peaceful transition of power in decades for country but still facing challenges. will have to deal with growing islam as extremists and the united nations still ranks as the world's poorest wells poorest nation. president mohammed presumed can breathe easy now he's been inaugurated as new shares

a new president the 1st one democratically elected since the country's independence from france in 1960 yet it almost didn't happen just 2 days before the ceremony was to take place some of the country's military allegedly tried to launch a coup according to the government it's still not clear how it was stopped. the 61 year old to zoom was elected in a february runoff poll that was contested by his main opponent smile on a former president who was toppled by a military coup in 1906 was mine claimed the latest vote was marred by fraud but the shares top court confirmed bazooms victory perhaps the biggest problem facing president bazooms government and its military are terrorist attacks by groups like boko haram and other organizations linked to the so-called islamic state and al-qaeda last month 137 people were killed in one of the worst attacks by suspected islamist militants but. for a long time the criminals of the islamic state in the greater sahara affiliated

with. almost exclusively attack defense and security forces the defense to be secretive but for some time they began to attack village chiefs and then progressively civilians in an indiscriminate manner to progress through mousy beautify and discrimination depicts since last january they've been carrying out massacres of innocent civilians on a large scale thereby committing sometimes real war crimes. terrorism is a real misfortune for our country. president bush june will also have to tackle the country's poverty the un ranks the poorest country in the world he also promised to improve the nation's educational system so that more young people stay in school longer and hopefully reduce the country's soaring population growth. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today new hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations over iran's nuclear program washington has indicated

it's willing to discuss returning to a nuclear deal with tehran via indirects negotiations in the austrian capital vienna the trump administration unilaterally pulled out of the deal 3 years ago. clashes have erupted in the disputed region of kashmir villages threw stones at security forces they responded with tear gas and rubber bullets delhi says an earlier indian operation killed 3 militants many locals that support either independence or pakistani rule over kashmir. ukraine's president says his army is quote ready to retaliate against any attack all of them is selenski has welcomed support from u.s. president joe biden in their 1st phone call records that russia is currently moving troops towards its border with ukraine. and christians around the world are marking the easter holy week for the 2nd year in

a row the pandemic means that celebrations are more muted than usual jerusalem's old city is normally packed with visitors from overseas now it's mostly local christians but they can at least take part in some services. yes every step in the preparation of the special cookies for easter is where we host and i knew about them key is hosting family and friends at home in east jerusalem after a year of restrictions coming together feels even more special everyone here is facts in a tit that makes it easier to keep the tradition of making. as we made of similar lina and filled with walnuts dates or to start chose this year we're happy to be together. 'd for this ok's. this is accurate to say that i cherish because it's passed from generation to generation this year because of the fee and everything we

managed to be together 'd last year unfortunately couldn't we were just maybe $5.00 that there would cross on top of each other so we were able to go it. still everyone is cautious the method of preparing this weeds with a shape symbolizing the thorny ground jesus war and despond stepped in vinegar is handed down from generation to generation. drusilla old city is the center of easter celebrations for palestinian christians and usually for visitors from all over the world the church of the holy separate prayer is believed to be the site of jesus' crucifixion his tomb and resurrection last year it was closed several times because of the pandemic this year it's also very quiet here with mainly local christians visiting foreign tourists are not yet allowed back so for us last it was difficult because we couldn't celebrate in a nice way now there's

a sense of looking forward to practice our rituals and go back to the holy places that are right in the i had people were really looking forward to go out during the year we had just stayed home and how many people would notice to celebrate together we really missed it to. good or not last easter church services were limited to clerical stuff and streamed online for the community. but now those who have been vaccinated can attend in person again. this year's people came for to separate in person in the mass this is an even more beautiful challenge because we can celebrate their participation we want to see people face to face who want to look into their eyes because we want them to live this experience to get them. back in the onions house the 1st batch of cookies is ready it's a welcome return to beloved easter traditions and a celebration of a gradual return to normal life. and

a reminder of the top story this hour. look at live pictures of the u.s. capitol in washington which has been put on lockdown police say a person armed with a knife rammed a vehicle into 2 officers a suspect has been shot and is being held in tulsa. we'll update you on that story at the top of the hour that's it for the for me up next so better. literature invites us to see people in particular. i like to see how it sounds as the kids find strange grown up around. make objective is to. do the 3 books on youtube. in the. climate change. minister.

people. are going to use today the future of. deja dot com for their search. click. may be on the cusp of historic change begins in what could be one of the world's biggest oil fields but while the country needs the cash many fares will come 1st will cost. a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic is that it's driven to digitise ation where so the why has been sluggish well look it's an innovative way one business to speeding workers turning up town. and fighting blackouts with

something like our solar power is offering an alternative to kenyan businesses struggling with electricity out. of business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. now supporters say it could change the course of namibia's history oil exploration company recon africa has begun drilling in the country's vango region it believes the area could contain one of the world's biggest oil fields but environmentalists and locals fear that exploiting those reserves could come to greg's a cost. the oil is thought to be under the cover and go basin a large area which covers most of namibia and botswana but also parts of angola south africa zambia and zimbabwe but the region contains some of the world's most unspoiled landscapes and vast biodiversity some at risk of extinction the local economy depends on tourism conservationists fear the environmental damage which

would result from oil extraction here. the wildlife will be diminished and the beauty and pure nature that's here will be harmed in some way he worries that the drilling sites will impede the migration path for the largest population of elephants remaining in the wild if recon africa prove up the oil reserves they suspect are here they'll expand the number of drilling sites in the area and build vast infrastructure to support their plans to tap the oil villages living here are afraid their lands will be confiscated taking away their livelihoods as small farmers communities fear that contaminants from drilling would seep into groundwater used for drinking india a geisha i. am going you know i can't afford a lawyer who would help me to stand up against an oil company if i don't go don't go because if things are doing we don't know what the.

environment experts have already accused recon africa of multiple breaches of their own environmental protocols the world wildlife fund namibia has called for a strategic environmental assessment of the exploration area before the namibian government approves any further work. the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the painfully slow progress of digitization in germany many companies were ill equipped for employees working from home and schools unable to offer digital learning but things are improving thanks to startups using the crisis to kickstart digital projects that may well last beyond the pandemic. the cafeteria is empty no one can eat here because of strict guidelines that are likely to remain in place for a long time and yet hundreds of employees in this frankfort business complex need

their lunch and they'll get it thanks to clips a new app designed to order lunch while strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines customers order and pay by phone their meal is ready for pick up and the lock box just minutes later for the company behind the app the pandemic create it's just the right environment to launch. off the core of our isp and demi came as a shock for us initially as many of our clients are restaurants and much affected by the lock down but now we have seen that the crisis is actually an accelerator for digital technologies demand for digitalisation is up and for us that's a big chance. the pandemic gave a boost to the startup behind the app because going digital provided a lifeline for its customers such as restaurants that would have otherwise lost

even more business although some see they would have invested in new technologies anyway like leading kirar a mark is in yard. and we've seen that the world is changing and much of what our guests do ordering paying is already happening digitally that's why we have to sided to rule out as commits technology in all our restaurants and. as new technologies bring change to established business it remains to be seen what the long term effect might be. more on the state of digitize ation in germany chelsea delaney with 3rd and 5th economist university of applied science. so they've been timid has certainly put a lot of pressure on germany and german businesses to speed up the pace of digitalisation is it working so far i would say digitalisation is not in a bad shape but by international comparison it's not looking overly good so it was

a good idea definitely to have in those programs that have been put in place to dampen the effects of the pen damage to have some digital components included in the sense that some support measures knowledge support digitalisation in germany which support venture capital for example financing to start ups and these kind of things so that's going definitely in the right direction we need that. so germany is now in the midst of this 3rd wave of infections the vaccine rollout has been a bit of a disaster lockdowns are being extended what is the outlook now for the german economy. it obviously all depends on how the right but given what most experts expect that pandemics nose down substantially over the next few weeks and months. but the projections for these 3 to 4 percent and also for next year so the losses in terms of production that the german economy incurred last year will be recovered at the latest by the end of

next year and in that sense it looks like the permanent effects the permanent damage of the of the pandemic is not as pronounced as the 1st as should be expected 1st. we've heard reports for example from the us of trillions of dollars worth of stimulus to help support the economy through it the pandemic have europe's stimulus efforts gone far enough. it's quite obvious that the european government has done much in terms of stimulus to the effect of the pandemic which is in part because the differently we have much stronger. protection laws for example we have these schemes. which effect on. disposable incomes in germany and the european union so in essence these measures to support income which are large part of the programs in the us are not as necessary

in europe but there are still obviously as we talked about in the 1st question the need to support infrastructure needs to support digitalisation. these measures should be pushed further ahead than what we're seeing. now some of the other global business stories making the news german companies will present a plan next week to redevelop the port of beirut according to germany's ambassador to lebanon the port and many areas around it would destroy it last august in a massive chemical explosion that killed 200 people the disaster deepened 11 and worst political and economic crisis in decades. egypt expects to get more than a $1000000000.00 in compensation after its suez canal was blocked. by a massive cargo ship a canal authority also wanted interviews that the ship ever given and its cargo won't be allowed to leave egypt decides to go to court damages.

russia has 20 manufacturers in 10 different countries to produce its vaccines. it follows a meeting between president vladimir putin and an official for the job production is already underway in india and south korea and other manufacturers could. this month. and you know says it will immediately start hiring pilots beginning with ago . 303 ready to meet growing demand for air travel is the latest sign of recovery in the u.s. economy dr airlines says that this week it would no longer block middle seats as it has done since the start of the pan but. now frequent electricity outages mean businesses in kenya can struggle to operate as a consistent level to help them out to german startup is offering an alternative to the grid in the form of low cost solar power systems they're already making a difference in one of kenya's key industries laois.

since her love of flowers has brought grace near china a long way today she's the proud owner of a flower farm in the town of near the kenyan capital nairobi it's a certified fair trade company with more than 500 employees. or nearly 30 hectares of land are covered with greenhouses full of roses all of the flowers are grown without the use of chemicals once harvested the roses are packed and placed in a cold store ready to be sent to europe both the cold store and the artificial lighting use a lot of electricity but the power supply isn't always reliable in kenya and power cuts are frequent. grace near china has often had to decide whether to keep the flowers fresh using a diesel generator which is costly or to let the roses die so for years she's looked for alternatives. renewable energy sources like solar power were

always very expensive. but last year she got a solar system that offers up to 150 kilowatts of power financed with the help of a german startup called a go to go. get us about the benefits. we all saw that it was possible to start just a few steps and to get to a place where we have. she now pays around $2400.00 euros a month to the start up it's a lot of money but still around 30 percent less than she used to pay for electricity after 9 years the system will be paid off and she'll only need to finance the maintenance costs. because the ego serves a number of businesses in kenya including another flour company called rift valley roses he. here they've set up a floating solar system. a colleague

a co-founder marching band has come from germany to inspect the installation he's worked with solar power for 16 years and swears by it companies that use it to reduce their energy bills actually saving a lot of money. secondly it's also saving c o 2 emissions and helping us to save the planet. the investment has definitely paid off for grace need and it's encouraged her to keep aiming higher than to sell flowers that are not only fair trade but also grown on a farm that's completely climate neutral. and just before we leave you a man from the u.s. state of georgia as have the last laugh after a workplace disagreement. mechanic's shop. $915.00 after he left his job but rather than send a check his former employer dumped over $91000.00 or oil and grease covered pennies

on his driveway but a coin company has now stepped in to help flatten cleaning the pennies and even rounding the total to give him a $1000.00 in cash. that's it for me in the business team here in berlin to check out our web site peter we dot com slash business about. economic news for. drought instead of rainy season in rwanda climate change is threatening harvest. a startup is now increasingly yields it's out in forms farmers about the plants water needs. are energy and sure is chiefly rikishi. climates marked africa. in 60 minutes d.w.

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