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former russian subsidiary hoping to secure germany's energy supply after gas pronounced cuts. we have an expert on what it means for prices and in uganda. activists try to keep a french energy giant out of the country's largest wildlife rescue. i'm christie plats and this is the w business. german car maker volkswagen is facing brazilian prosecutors over allegations of human rights violations at a farm. it ran during brazil's military dictate dictatorship accusations include slave labor, torture, and even killings. prosecutor say they have documented years of atrocities committed by volkswagen managers and hired guns at a cattle ranch. the company owned in the amazon rain forest basin in the 19 seventies and eighties. now they hoped to reach a financial settlement for the victims a court house in brazil. ya. here behind closed doors, prosecutors were set to confront one of the world's most powerful automakers. with a series of explosive allegations. it revolves around this farm in brazil. the

accusation that volkswagen benefited from slave labor here during the 19 seventy's and eighty's m. r fordham. joe was a form of modern slavery workers. how to work 7 days a week. more than 10 hours a day without any pay ot us a sing he said, be to go get cheap. would you came in at all? so the prosecution alleges that there are hundreds of cases in which serious human rights violations occurred. they say workers were little more than indentured. servants. witnesses speak of being shackled after attempting to escape, being forced to work at gunpoint and even of murder, becky, to say, when someone tried to escape, the managers would go after them and shoot them. but they beat up those who tried to escape on the street in the shack this but she and i stood out, but she alone bohak. volkswagen bought the farm in 1973 at the invitation of

brazil's military dictatorship. to day the company says they take the accusation seriously, but must 1st analyze the results of the investigation before commenting. any. this surprises christopher copper, who says he informed volkswagen of its involvement a few years ago and got some conflicts. i examined the operations of this farm during my studies and 2017 o 4. after my discovery, i told volkswagen that during this period it had used foreign laborers who were essentially forced into slavery lot on fully from a good form. brazil's prosecutor now wants justice, must him suck woof. we are convinced that volkswagen will acknowledge its responsibility and that there will be a settlement with the prosecutor's office and the former workers, brazilian society will be compensated for his unacceptable incidence in his out. it's unclear how volkswagen will respond to the allegations while we

go now to correspondent mathias able, who is in brazil at the hearing for us. hi there mathias, can you tell us what came out of a hearing today? so the hearing took 2 hours in the room behind me and the 8 lawyers, or folks about disappeared without an official statement. they wanted to study. now at the accusations of the prosecutors and the federal prosecutors, they are waiting for response from folks logging until september. this year, so they have no 3 month in order to give a statement. and so the prosecutors hope that folks warden and yet might be ready for an agreement. and the prosecutors want to avoid going to court. and so that an agreement might help the victims, financially that's at least the wish and the will of the prosecutors in order to avoid a court case which could take many years and month now mathias, we know that this farm was owned and operated by volkswagen. to what degree did

german management know about the atrocities taking place there? what more can you tell us about that? finally, we have to say they knew about it, and there were reports already in the eighty's in the german magazine spiegel about it. so there were rumors about it and for decades already embarked lately in 2017, the historian chris of a copper which we heard in the report. he published his report and, and for the 2nd you about in these accusations and about the, the what happened at this farm because mister copa, a dedicated one chapter on this farm or in the prostate in brazil. so they knew about it also the management but and yeah, we don't know why they didn't act so far. that's one of the secrets folks lang might. yeah. might to tell us about a in the next months which are to come. i was not he has about in brazil. thank you so much for that. well moving on to energy berlin,

we'll bail out the former germans subsidiary of russia. natural gas from gas prom, to the tune of 10000000000 euros as it races to secure gas supply around russia's war with ukraine. trip gas pounder, money, a trade stores and distributes natural gas across the country. it's already under state trusteeship. after separating from its russian parent in april, a german state bank will provide a loan to shore up the company, which is struggling with high gas prices and russian counter. thanks. and the deal also renamed the company, securing energy for europe, g m b h. well, to break this down, i'd like to bring in an expert on global energy systems, dr. tom o'donnell. tom, thanks for joining us. it. this is sort of confusing breaking down german gas prom russian gas problem. you could almost think that germany is bailing out a russian company. what exactly is going on here? can you break this down? ok, well indeed, thanks for having me tonight. yes, it's a,

this company was the daughter of a gas problem in st. petersburg. but at the same time, if you look at all the infrastructure it owns, there's deep german participation between this russian company and other russian energy companies and german energy companies. so the whole industry is in to entangle very deeply this goes back to the 1980s when his pipelines were for the oil. pipelines were 1st built through ukraine and poland and so forth from the soviet union. and now have been renewed with these north stream pipelines. this is a very deep alliance. it goes back a long time. ok, well time we also heard today russia's gas prom saying that a delivery through the pipeline will be cut by 40 percent due to complications related to sanctions. just after that, the german government announced this bailout plan. what does all of this mean for germany's energy supply? germany has a very serious problem with the war in ukraine. this all bets were off for germany,

germany band, for decades on the part of the partnership with russia. i would say this was a geopolitical decision in certain level in order to guarantee a certain freedom for german capital for german elite german business under the general predominance of the united states and the western alliance. they thought by having this alliance with russian oil and gas, it gave them certain freedom. they were worn for years by all parties in washington and in eastern europe, that this could end up in a colossal disaster. and now that's what's happened. i mean, this was 55 percent of germany's gas came directly from gas brown and something like about 34 percent of the oil last year. so there's no guarantee now that's gone and they're desperately looking for other sources. but the problem here is this company, jamaica gas from germania administers much of the infrastructure in the company.

and the government has to keep that infrastructure going. the storage tanks in the pipelines, and that's what this bailout is about. tom odon on darla and thank you for joining us. thank you. well, in uganda activists have sued french oil multinational total seeking to stop oil exploration in fragile ecosystems. total signed a $10000000000.00 deal to commercially exploit uganda's oil and gas. some of which is located inside a national park. and ugandan minister said detractors are blocking important growth opportunities for the country. this is the meeting which sealed the deal in uganda . working bold, multinational so late bite at our energies. have committed over $10000000000.00 to commercial exploit to candice oil and gas. this is an exciting news for a country. it's a long awaited me and we should actually throw a patty. this sector is expected to create over 1600 jobs

for you condense, but not everyone is as happy as the investment minister in the process of uh, looking at that then the video and yes, brought us. we forget that actually we are doing it at the cost of our niche alva, to what is the more communities tile is building the world's longest heated pipeline to trust. put crude oil from landlocked uganda to the c port in tanzania. the french mo, to nation is now compositing over 12000 people to piv were for this development. also gunned as oil has been discovered in fragile ecosystems like matches unfolds, national park. environmentalists have no drugs to towel to the courts of law to stop oil activities in the country's largest wildlife sanctuary. while the programs there, whatever the i thing will know, very weird that in africa these no, in

a country that is producing oil in a manner that dr. politics, the people unpredicted the vitamin that is the reality. letizia. and we have in love. it's in evidence from the thought of the doctor. it is going to be different in that, at a global stage to tell festus criticism for investing in fossil fuels, despite the pressure to face them out due to their c o. 2 emissions. but you can't essays, that critic some misguided the one who is telling you that don't do is doing it. and they know that trustable, uganda is well and dawn with natural resources. so the only way you can stifel them or stiffle, uganda is my telling them. don't do these, don't do the other one, don't do that, just give them a list of dance and then they don't progress. and then what do you do? you take their natural resources in some african countries,

all production as cause devastating impacts on the environment and communities. you're going to see it as land lessons and plans to manage natural resources better, but environmentally, some not convinced. well, that's all we've got. if you'd like more, you can check us out on d, w dot com backslash business, and the dw youtube channel. you can also find us on facebook from me and the whole business team here in berlin. thanks for watching. ah, he treated in his with to is a former park fighter now guy, the tourist over the former combat with violence do rages in columbia. 60 years

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