this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mona lisa. it is the virgin of the rocks, 2 versions, multiple copies, and a hidden drawing. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand today? the search for answers starts february 10th on d, w. ah ah . so let's go sit down with hong barbara since he has accomplished a rare feat. she's disabled and recently landed a job my lung finish. it was hard work, but now i finally reached michael. i'm part of the regular job market. dick tava, sharman cerebral. i would also like to be employed as well. i think i'd like to

design carts viner. he's also disabled. ah. 426272829. 3031. i'm la, 41 in yellow. for the past 3 years sharman sri balance has worked at a so called sheltered workshop in central berlin. i think that can go in another bag unless they these workshops employ disabled people to do simple tasks like taking laundry to the laundry. in the mornings i sharman has a cognitive and a physical disability. he needs a bit more time to do certain things. come over here. go on the other side

here, 9. now don over there now come here. you're walking in the middle of the route and on top. oh, that's what you mean. yes, you're right. thank you sir. but shaw am on would like to get a job outside of the workshop doing something more challenging. let's go with i felt i want to experience something new and that's why i want to work with carts. i though i am also interested in another scientific area that i'm focused on right now. this is elizabeth and what area is that demonstrates new physics, but i can't tell you more of us out then that while shar amounts ideas about that are still a bit vague. he knows where he wants to get to. eventually. he would like to design sustainable cars when the home is hyperlink. the reason i said i can't tell you

more, is that if i tell you people who watch this, my think negatively about my goals in, that's why i don't want to make it a big deal. out of it and say only the minimum has because if i say too much, people will think i'll never reach my goal. and thing with any allison in the past, people often underestimated the 24 year old long as of here at the workshop. he can let his creativity roam free food in nice relations. so innovation of ocean affliction. the art that's made here is sold and shar am on, is very productive. his salary is fixed. he earns a $180.00 euros a month, far less than the german minimum wage. yeah, and so excuse me. he wants to find a regular job. also to earn more of us is under toyota,

but so far the work was too difficult for him. william from london, daisy, my death lived. and on 15, if they decided that i should not be doing a normal job so that i should instead work in a sheltered workshop that i accepted that because i'm the one who was responsible for what happened is that affordable barbara is in ski, is already a step further, it's early morning and she's on her way to work. it took a lot of effort, but now she's part of the regular job market. although she still gets support from the workshop she was previously at. barbara has a job at a daycare center for pensioners. yes. here we are. i am. she likes to arrive early so that she can have a bit of time to herself before her 6 hour work day begins. oh,

they're all back there. oh anna, she comes on ciena. i usually arrive at 10 past 8. that gives me time until 9. i shouldn't. oh, good time for cigarette. there are days when she's less keen to work than others. barbara feels she's already overcome. the biggest challenge. she found a regular job after 5 years working in a sheltered workshop. it was a major step for her that i'd noticed i've always been interested in working with elderly people, wound up at night, but i wouldn't want to work in a nursing home depot. i prefer day care centers like this when i finished home. he here this will, eva why? i'm sure nursing homes are more challenging. it is harder and i think you need to work saturdays and sundays as well. sounds like there you have the weekends off with him with one. got mom. von yeah. good morning. go ahead.

let barbara disinfect the hansley's on. okay. barbara's job is to assist the day care staff. she's still learning what to do when it gets to the island. what grows come here? i was yeah, i was seeing them by then he actually hang up your jacket. there's a bit of commotion, but barbara stays calm. no, this is pretty normal. ahmad. it's often more hectic. that's the governing song. there's a staff shortage in senior care and barbara could see herself working here. yep. but work life isn't just about the job. it's also about teamwork and doing as the boss, tatyana says, anna, give me, anna, can you get me a coffee with milk please? barbara, barbara, please don't blow your nose in the kitchen. is the debited yet?

i think you can eat in the kitchen, but please well your nose and wash your hands. here. may a document to annoy and dick barbara knew on the team. take one of the jobs here as now hers and for some of her colleagues that wasn't so easy but equally well because they said we are doing much more work than she is them. and we can't hand things off to her. when kennedy of coverage on baton and so there was a need for all of us to talk this through, but including now tona back it's shar amone's workshop in germany. these workshops were recently criticized for being to sheltered and exploiting workers. but there are reforms who to mca an employee here that is helping shar amman, find a regular, better paid job. what against oh, has to keep your ear to the ground and tell people, hey, i want to work with cars. can i do an internship to learn the ropes?

mcglenn comes in. the house will be in london. okay. destiny sherman's previous internship with the mechanic didn't go well. from their perspective. i did a lot of things wrong, but i really did do my best. as linda food. absolutely. as of course, no one doubts that i did, but that job wasn't right for you guys. no more. i think i would like to design cars. whole to design. yeah, that's kind of refresh and that's what i can imagine doing. here i am designing as well i make art. my idea is, you know, my vision to design a sustainable car. i mean, just the outside level. oh, if you had met us, i would really like to find your research department where you can be creative with our here to, to live right and unfold where it's about exploring and testing different shapes of an attorney. but that's also really a challenge and undertaken the name by the hell a law, because typically that's

a job done by people who study design or are train engineers. yes, yes, true. but i still want to pursue the spanish. okay. that's good to know. as a job coach here, oh, to try to find something that meets shar amounts expectations and matches his abilities. there's plenty of demand on the labor market. yeah, yeah it's, i'm just in a meeting with the dental companies have begun actively looking to sheltered workshops to recruit employees differ. good guns. okay. dolly soon by you phil i, i might have to internships at a bakery of in fact the job interviews already lined up and on my god, there are several i will employers, her looking for insurance. so it's high. so some of them i always rip it. i know

how i should do it and it won't work for me. do you know why the why? because he can hold it on the right or left. no, it takes a lot for the economy to become truly inclusive. both employers and employees need to adapt. but in this case, it's barbara who worries her contract at the daycare center won't get extended. she doesn't want to return to her old job at the workshop. and this in betty will be the admin, not people. there had severe disability, my job movies and some have big deficits defeat. it was too much for me. this will be to feel given to day, she has an appointment with the job coach to speak about a training opportunity. i know when they're coming. i know not, but the problems barbara has been facing at work have left her feeling demoralized one of them job and get that i. what do i care about work? i've been working despite severe pain medicine garb,

acted as that. nobody said you have to work sick. that's not right. so isn't it? well, but they did as well. no, but they had the feeling that again you are missing work. so again, long while we are doing about this is, do you want to quit by december 31st? does that's no problem on all long didn't yes, because this is a dull java i plane. it's so dull you who they are and what can i say or greenish, but i don't really enjoy this work. it's always the same. they arrange for you to america to come to the day care center more often to encourage barbara that. hi, as miss isn't keith, see you in 2 weeks is good luck. yeah, you too is things are looking up for sharman. he's about to start an internship at a car paint shop. it's not the design agency he was after, but it's

a step in the right direction. today's the day he signing his contract. i've never done a paint job before. multi well. okay, but you fixed cars? no, no. what i would like to learn in january and want oh okay, you're new to this? no, right. no worries. sharman is treated without prejudice here and the boss is open minded. i hi there. how are you? good. well, and you uh, wish was off to me and i'll help this young man and he can learn something here. come sky, he can do this for week internship out. that's not a problem. as to his schedule and his buddha tooth tooth will. sure am on sri ball on one day design electric cars. only time will tell me, but in any case, he has taken the step he wanted to go out into the world and away from his old job at the workshop. as for bob roja since keith, after the 3 months her contract was extended by another 6 months.

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we off what's going on on the same problem at different places in south africa. blockades are now part of the daily life. this is the w business. i'm kate ferguson. thanks for joining me. german business leaders are beginning the year on an optimistic nose, according to the lation survey from the e for research institute. ceos in the manufacturing sector are expecting to see an increase in i put in the months to come. this despite continued concerns over the war and ukraine and further interest rate hikes, figures follow other indicators of a more upbeat mood among the german businesses. come a week after german chancellor, all afloat that he was caught, absolutely convinced that germany would not fall into a recession to sierra and for more on this we can talk to clemons 1st. he's the president of the ego institute. clemens lovely to have you. the can you tell me how

do you interpret these the latest figures wired from business was feeling better the main reason is clearly that the likelihood of a gas rationing scenario is very low. now, because we've had a very mild winter flow gas storage. so there are plenty tunnels coming on, so that was the one very important risk for the economy and this is off the table now. at least for this went on next when the come to be critical. but for this, when we are out of the woods in that regard, what we also see is a slightly easing inflation pressure even beyond the improvements with supply bottlenecks. so a number of positive factors also, the government gas price break takes away some uncertainty for consumers and firms like both of regarding energy costs. so this also

contributes to a reduction in uncertainty. we see these are the factors that contribute to these positive numbers. ok, so some reason for optimism, but it really wasn't long ago that the i m f with predicting that half of the e u was going to fall into a recession this year. no german chancellor, all assaults says he's absolutely sure that germany isn't going to enter recession . why they mixed messages? well, we have been seeing better those coming in approximately since october. so the for index, for instance, has been increasing since october and we have been saying for some time that the risk of recession is declining. politicians tend to be optimistic about this statement by tom such as just reflects the improved data also the business climate. the next data for me, for that has been coming in for some time, suggesting that the situation may be better. now what we will see next year is

roughly stagnation in germany, so it's no positive growth. so no reason for excessive optimism, but the very negative scenarios we were discussing in the autumn, the scenarios are now off the table and it's not a good news necessarily across all sectors either. is it what about construction? what's the look there? yes, construction is the one sec there where we don't see significant improvements. and that's because we have rising costs of construction. we have seen that for some time materials are getting more expensive wages arising. so we have a growing costs in this area and at the same time we have rise. the interest rates and a lot of construction is finance with depth. and the impact of these rising interest rates is very strong. a lot of people are stopping construction projects because they're saying that the costs are too high at the same time we have increasing

tendencies to regulate rems, and we have increasing discussions about rent caps, and that also makes investment less interesting. all right, timing. thank you so much. thank you. now to some of the other tele business stories making news. all passenger flights in and out of berlin's international airport have been canceled. our staff said a one day strike for higher pay. airport authorities are advising the 35000 effected travelers to contact their airlines to re book their flight. unions are calling for a $500.00 euro a month, pay increase. the u. s. justice department is suing google for its dominance of the online advertising. marcus, accusing the tech of giant using on lawful mean to eliminate competition. the move is part of the government push to rein in the power of big tech,

which has enjoyed rapid growth over the past decade. now power has returned to most cities across pakistan after a nationwide breakdown left the country of 220000000 people without alec trustee at the beginning of this week. train pharmacist, mike here, a lot more had come to a dock cell with internet mobile phone services and 80 and also action markets are becoming increasingly common in pakistan where small failures can lead to cascading effect through the nation to terrorizing power grid. the lease is out, it comes out a difficult time with the economy already facing pressure from inflation and dwindling foreign exchange. reserve your spot, the pakistani energy minister, how to say about the situation. good. the see, got his arm here. we've learned our lessons that we need to invest in the distribution system, which i will report to the prime minister after some time about maybe the album

gall bladder that the power is fully restored. i like that we are vigilant and making sure that such incidents do not occur again. and we have to make investments in laying the lions as well as their safety. as i walked into i loved about i know. and to talk more about this, i'm joined by i report at ward i in one word i thank you so much for coming on. you've been to pakistan recently where parish is really half and quite often how do people deal with them? well, i was actually in pakistan in november, that was quite reason and we have what we call load shedding, which is basically scheduled power cut. so you're kind of half a prepared for them. so i've faced a lot of them when i was back home, but rare are these kind of like nationwide or 24 hour outages. my family was actually struggling quite a lot. i couldn't get in touch with them for so long. so many of my friends who work, remote, or from phone, from home, had to struggle to go from house to house, looking for a back up our generators. we all have some of them,

some of energy like electricity stored for times like this. but actually this kind of 24 hours when really throw you off, especially the starter for work week on a monday and in the january of the new year that says it was quite difficult for everyone back home. absolutely, the scale was just breathtaking, wasn't it? now, at the infrastructure in pakistan, and when it comes to power is really crumbling. why is it in such bad shape? the system embarks on the electricity grid is actually quite inch and it's very old . there's a running joke that we have that if you look at the skyline of garage, you're bound to see these electricity wires hanging everywhere. it seems that there's like a lack of investment in this industry. there's so much political and economic upheaval. there's always this kind of where should we invest and who should we invest in? but this kind of outage, i hope that it has shown to the government that investment needs to be made in the transmission of energy as we've seen or the energy crisis, things can go up and down so fast and having your economy and your people be

without electricity for 24 hours. that's so damaging for, for example, in industry, the textile mills industry, the reported that they may have estimated losses of over 70 bill, me $70000000.00. and that's, that's a lot of, that's a lot of money. it is such a huge impact and we did just hear the energy minister there a thing that he investing more, but the government in pakistan has a lot of other economic issues on his plate right now. doesn't tell me a little bit better than i mean, so after the floods of summer, 2022 things have just been going downhill. the i m f. review is also pending. that's something that's really high on the government's agenda is to achieve this because a lot of analysts say that might solve a lot of the problems that we have right now. now some of the requirements of the i m f is put through is to remove as to impose more taxes and remove some of the subsidies. that means things will become more and more expensive for the people of box and including electricity and energy prices. and if you like this kind of economic, this is such an economically difficult time for the country. priority need priorities

need to be set street. so if this at this outage or start us anything, it's that it's important to look at different industries and it's important to look at how the economy of the whole country is functioning. and it's also very important to look at energy transmission and see where we go from there. absolutely . when it run, thank you so much for coming on. thank you. and pakistan isn't the only country suffering from power problems? south africa has been grappling with an energy crisis for years. no age in coal fired plants are a major problem with state owned energy from asked common, barely able to afford to buy diesel for emergency generators for an ordinary people . blackouts are now just part of daily life. the machines are still running at typical kudos. furniture workshop in johannesburg, but soon the electricity will be turned off. it's called load shedding a form of energy rationing because the country can't make enough. it's lead to frustration everywhere. that has dorothy, ah,

it to put it in business terms. it means loss of income, less loss of revenue. and it affects my profitability in a hugely, to day, the power has gone out 3 times. each time for 2 and a half hours, hulu can still run his smaller appliances of a generator, but the larger machines are down. now he and his team after work at night, and on the weekend whenever there's enough juice. but that makes production more expensive and his customers aren't happy wanted that to explain to them. okay, fine. the cost of anal becoming immaculate and it's beyond what me and you had actually just to make your product alone. i'm suffering a 30 percent loss. it's not that big. we had an agreement, it's hard for cooler to deliver his products on time and even to pay his employees . lot, shedding has become a massive problem for the south african economy at home. however,

many have gotten used to it and learned to manage the daily blackouts, like the cook normal family. they know what to do, keep the most important devices charged at all times. an app keeps them informed about when the grids turned off. today no cheer do 3 times one at 2 in the morning been 10 and again now it's 6 o'clock until office 8th and that's what we rely on. tracy, this is the stage. these are the outages and are pretty accurate for cooking. they've switch to gas. sometimes they even had to rely on a little camping stove. the fridge and freezer can handle 2 to 3 hours of being turned off. extremely important though, is enough light, no matter how demit is. make sure that you have your illuminate illumination sorted out 1st because it does affect the spirit. so everything goes dark for a moment when the lord shedding begins. but soon after solar charged lights go on,

you and the family carries on. oh, do you know the good side is that i can spend significant time with the kids we bought and i get to see them live in. we're more present now that there's no screen there playing board games instead of watching tv. at least that's a good way to handle what is otherwise a serious crisis for the country. all that rot so far. so for more you can always check i d, w dot com slash is this where on the dw news youtube channel as well, for me and the team, it's the by and take a sometimes a seed is all you need to allow the big ideas to grow we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning packs like global ideas. we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world

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