going on the african con housing unit docs. november 9th. the this is dw news live from belen commack of fox fall again, plans to close factories in germany for the 1st time ever. and please say the company is planning to shop to at least 3 plans in the country dealing face about germany's back phone car industry. also coming out of human rights groups found the alarm of red, drastic planned to stop out have mass militants and gaza. they will, in the so called the generals plant good truck, hundreds of thousands of civilians without food, cold water. the

launch like a welcome to the program. the heads of folks are against work, as council says, the condo and intends to close at least 3 factories in germany, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. folks stock and has never close a plant in germany before. you know, it's been, comes off, the vw reported a 14 for central and net profits in the 1st half of the year. and ended a decades old agreement with unions on job security. the company has been in talks with unions as a cost saving plans, claiming weak sales for forwarding prophets f. this finds paying out 4 and a half 1000000000 bureaus to shareholders last year for more on this ongoing by type. so i guess in from dw business kate's, how big of a blog is this to for slogan on the german economy?

well, i should probably begin by saying his thoughts liking hasn't actually confirmed these reports, but it has them denied them either. so i think that's quite telling, it's really hard to overstate how much this matter is. folks logging is a global icon, it's being synonymous with is made in germany. braun, i know the company is coming out and saying, well, we actually can't make in germany anymore. at least not the way we used to in terms of the immediate impact. as you mentioned, we're talking about 3 plans out of the 10 folks funding has in germany, potentially closing. we don't know which ones are in question, but no matter what, tens of thousands of jobs are on the line in an industry that is re the heart of the german economy. the disclosures don't come out of nowhere. how did we get to this point? i think it's been a perfect cocktail of problems to be honest. so the 2015 diesels console certainly did a lot of damage to the dw brand, but that's not the reason why we're here today. so folks on has been really un, unable to stay competitive over the last few years, was really slow to embrace electric mobility and that sluggishness took place

against a backdrop of china's rapid rise. so time has always been a really important export market for german carmakers on for a long time. they did really well there. but what's happening now is that chinese carmakers have begun making very high quality, inexpensive vehicles. so that market is problematic. but on top of that, those time these funds are not coming to europe as well. and that has less folks, i'm really struggling to, to, to remain competitive. so folks fucking and struggling, how can anything be done now to salvage the situation? well, german unions are very strong and they are certainly st. they'll fight back and they've tracked and strikes for example. but if you think about the issues the focus on is face and you kind of divorce them from the general space of the german economy, which is in a pretty poor way, right. and i growth has been very sluggish. for some time. germany is locked in competitiveness compared to where it used to be. it's now considered not very innovative as well. so you've got a lot of is use that term government has that it will address,

but it's going to be a very steep auto bundle and it's one that folks bug just really want to stick around for it to be honest. so what's our gym and companies saying now that they need from the government? well, it's interesting because of course folks funding isn't alone instructing right now . and during that time, so what i felt was actually called a summit this week for the has of big german companies. and they wanted some pretty simple things. they want more investment, they want less red tape. they want to make it easier for foreign workers to come and work for them here. the problem is also that they wants political stability and that is something that is lock you right now. so the conference, that's why it's called cold. he did not invite his economy minister who up at high back and he did not advise his finance minister custom in the, on the effect of that was that the listener from a different political party called his own some us with industry that does not look like consensus, i think that's a really big issue right now as well. kate, thank you very much for your analysis. that's kind of focus on from. do you know what your business are tending to the conflict in the middle east now and israel's

parliament is set to vote on legislation that would effectively bomb the un release agency for palestinians unreal from operating in israel and the occupied palestinian territories below was could severely limit for the humans activities in garza, i'm the occupied west. bobby cooper and rocked depends on israel's corporation to deliver it. is fairly curious as the agencies employees of involvement in the october 7th terror attack. the legislation has voted support and as well as parliament and not extensive does not know how to send in emergency services, say tens of thousands of civilians upfront with out access to food or medical supplies in northern garza is has been run thing off. it's offensive against him off in the area. the siege has many worried as well may be implementing the circle general's plan, which would force anyone left in the north to evacuate and surrender,

or stop. israel's intensified assault has led tens of thousands of palestinians to flee the north of gaza. the un says many of those remaining are worried if they leave. they'll never be allowed to return human rights groups echo that fear. the evacuation orders and siege tactics have them worried. israel has quietly begun implementing the so called general's plan. it calls for the northern 3rd of the strip, including gaza city to be cut off and declared a military zone. anyone left behind would be treated as an enemy combatant states. israel should maintain control over the north for an indefinite period and create a new administration without from us splitting the gaza strip into to the chief architect of the proposal. is this man a former head of these really national security council that shouldn't be given?

i don't know, 10 days to live with the soul says totally those that these will will provide. and after the 5th time, all the sylvia will become to be a mandatory zone. and all the from us people will stevenville whether some of them will fight those. some of them are civilians, they will have 2 choices, either to so rondo or to stop island as part of a group of retired generals, frustrated that a year into the war. israel has not achieved its aims of destroying hamas and free the remaining hostages. they believe the plan would break what's left from us and lead it to free the surviving hostages. the plan was made public last month. it was immediately condemned by human rights groups. scholars have also questioned its legality. during a recent visit to the region, the us secretary of state says he was personally assured by prime minister benjamin netanyahu, that israel is not carrying out the plan with regard to the,

the so called generals plan in the north. let me just say again. first, the united states fully and fundamentally rejected the 2nd, as i told you, the other day of the government of israel says that it is not the policy of israel and also rejects the plan. the u. s. has threatened to cut weapons deliveries to israel if it does not step up and speed up the flow of aid into northern gaza. for what on this story last spring and no me but cove. she is an international human rights lawyer negotiates and media to check them house in london. know me as we've seen it as reports, human rights groups. it is really is already implementing this plan in northern gauze that what do you make of those days as well? i think there's

a lot of ground. so the way seeing the evacuation board is continuously being issued and some families have been evacuated to more than 10 times and the displaced into areas where they, they're no longer have any humane conditions. i met with a number of i was this is who visited the gaza strip last week and they were visiting london and they stated that the situation is very clearly in humane. so some women, they said, you know, didn't even have underwear because they had just left in the clothes and there was just no way for them to get it. so clearly, you know, it's, the situation is beyond the catastrophic and it is illegal to, you know, carry out forceful evacuations in this manner. and a solution needs to be found. then really, the only solution is to put pressure on prime minister netanyahu to accept the

junction proposal on the table, which is being discussed in doha today. so you know, the was the to end and it has to be a ceasefire. the hostages oral them hundreds and one of them dead and then like, need to come home because this, these false evacuations. i'm not going to stall unless there is a ceasefire. you mentioned the hosted, there's hostile just the proponents of the so called generals plan. believe that this would help get the hostages back alive. do you agree with them? a good thing actually i think to this all the respects, i don't think that supports the both as of the plan think, i think i think that the mis oh, the lie that it's a military pressure depending on how you want to look at it to the ministry pressure was going to bring the hostage to his back has been prison wrong. it's a well over a year now. and a 101 hostages, that's a very,

very large number. have some of them in the eighty's. so some of them were 7 months when they were kidnapped. i think it's, there is nothing. i don't think anyone in israel, including the general, believes that military pressure has got to bring the health just back. and it's been stated very clearly by the chief of stuff by the minister of defense. i mean prime minister netanyahu for his own reasons, is keen to prolong a will. to date was the opening of the can i say these are you calling them in the cost of very long some of the recess which included the period of the so called high holidays. you know, the new year and duncan pool and so called and the 1st day 1st speech and he talks about a great potential new reliance that he's in visiting with the arab states. what now what he feels he knows that potentially some of them on,

on his side knowing what to do about the hostages. oh, like not one, he did not mention the hostages today in his opening speech, i think send to basically him. and i'd like to touch on on, on another i'm glad to connect such as sets of both on a bill that would essentially bind the walk of the you an agency for palestinian refugees, which has been a source of critical life for decades. what is israel's, and go with this bill in your, in your opinion, who doesn't have go? the goal is the goal really is to get with the familiar, you know, um, you know, the united nations work and really things. and they are the backbone of not only humanitarian aid, they also provide schools, you know, they run in many ways, you know, all of the refugee camps in know them being gauze at that base in a number of countries where palestinian refugees, of president, the, the headquarters are in a month, but obviously israel has no control over what happens in amman or in syria and

lebanon. so they're focusing on the gaza. is around the west valley, the them, you know, especially to close their offices and choose them already 6 months ago. i think that the, these riley government and the connects it and particularly the cabinets, you know, the lights fall removed from the book actually is happening on the ground. and yes, which is the case. there's a number of unreal book as fast suite. thousands of $3000.00 plus workers may i add in gaza. a number of them participated in the already dis, atrocities of the 7th of october last year, and a number of those uh, members of her moss. but that said, i do think that the that recruited them knowing that and they took action very

swiftly once the information was given to them. so i think that there's a necessity to work with on run off against under. i don't think either you and agencies like unicef will w h a world health organization could, can replace entre, i'm right, is the only you and organization really is. he's the backbone of humanitarian aid in garza. but i do think, su, correct. you said that the commit such as them into positive that just ations in the same way that the class and possibly just lation that the against the palestinian state, which many, many of the opposition members have stated numerous times in the past, is the only solution to the conflict, no one else has come up with a better solution. so if he's not that i've had all in the many, many years of negotiating for peace in this conflict and others. thank you very much for your analysis. that's the know me by called with the type of house and not

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