to our south africa. my current your character are the car for the. africa out of a better. over the. top in the public perception africa is now assuming the position to which it was always untitled so most of it is of it is a. few months starting january 1st. this is d.w. news live from berlin firefighters in australia under world lentulus train for nearly 4 months now among those working to put out the flames are many volunteers take a leave from their jobs in some cases risking their lives. in government has announced plans to compensate them and honor their efforts.

heat of south africa's constitutional court. the day after they 1st meet the group's give their 1st concert at a music school in so what. each group introduces itself by singing a piece from its own repertoire busy. that. right afterwards they performed their 1st joint arrangement him from the middle ages jazzed up with african beats. the who. can you believe that we just did that. the 1st time. i. see it i have truly arrived. they're finding the african audience his enthusiasm infectious and some will sing has a long tradition here and is part of everyday life. the next day of rehearsals belongs to separate so to see he's been commissioned by george avila to compose a work that will be rehearsed here for the very 1st time. it's untitled the birth of change. the aircraft. carrier. there. the vocalists will later be supported by a full symphony orchestra oh whoa. word. here they're getting acquainted with the new work which was created on a computer and has never been performed before. you can see. 23. at some point things just c

though it's winter in south africa it feels like summer. this series has come to this university campus outside johannesburg to rehearse the new composition together with the orchestra. germany's national youth orchestra is taking advantage of its summer tour through south africa to rehearse birth of change with separate so to see for the 1st time. the more. you. will. want to move. to. the composer once his music to entertain people 1st and foremost but with this piece he also hopes to create a tribute to society's unsung heroes the cleaning ladies the janitors and the bakers. birth of changes to have its world premiere at the beethoven fest in september in the german city of bonn. 6 the vocalists are struggling to make themselves heard over the powerful sound of the orchestra. after they were still there are invited to a broadway the south african name for barbecue. it's a cult. an area tradition that brings people and cultures together. is. very. c.l.a and just 6 have a lot to talk about music their everyday lives and snippets of taxis c

just that mean it's still south africa is it your inspiration so the africa will always remain an inspiration for me it's my lights on south africa but i think of being in berlin allows me that space on the fiction to have that distance away from a very vibrant v.t. conflicted jogger fee set the country so i think the distance being in germany being in berlin the spatially i think is very helpful for my state of mind ok i would just bowl and inspire you as well. as inspired me interesting ways it's been more. to be able to access these thought equal differences with its architecture with its european r.t.c. with its within modernity i think that being able to access that has been has been a video inspiration for me in my work i want to talk to you about bicycles because you feature them quite a bit different. and i know there's an interesting story concerning apartheid that sort of has to do with box of the story goes back many many years it goes back to the 2nd world war. and it's regarding this of african soldiers and the forms of compensation. will go with 2 soldiers who volunteered to fig

i'm sure south africa will wa nt to ta ke years.l want to take our scalp back here in england. what might four matches in a week, the last one you hope being in the final at the copper box in london. it will be pretty intense. you will find out a lot about your players. absolutely, and this is another huge step up for us in terms of challenge. it will be great that we can bring some confidence in from that recent in south africa, but to play these three nations, all with a distinct style of play, is a huge learning curve for some players more than others. we have experienced players, but there will be a number of players that aren't used to having to counteract tactically three very differing styles of play in close proximity, so it will be a huge learning curve for all of us, but ultimately what a fantastic opportunity to have met all the teams in the top five of the world in these opening few months, because we also toured australia and new zealand earlier in the year, so from my point of view, a huge and fantastic opportunity to

south africa's economy continues to real g.d.p. growth turned negative in the 3rd quarter the 2nd contraction this year in the country turn its fortunes around before received another junk bond rating. also on the show zimbabwe is in the middle of a hunger crisis it's not just economic mismanagement behind it but increasing drought. and it was a showcase project for china in africa so why is the moment also nairobi railway struggling to attract business. this is your business after report i'm stephen beers in berlin thanks for watching. south africa has slipped back into negative economic growth latest figures showing g.d.p. shrank by 6 tenths of a percent during the 3rd quarter of this year that's well below the small amount of growth that analysts had predicted and it continues a volatile trend that has seen south africa a yo yo between expansion and contraction over the past few years and this time around the economy was let down by certain industries in particular namely mining manufacturing storage and communication now add to

robin road grew up in apartheid era south africa and made a name for himself with the street he moved to berlin 17 years ago and is now well established on the global contemporary art scene as an artist in south africa's young democracy road address the country's new possibilities the hopes and the fears of the buildings in johannesburg where his campuses. even today he has a difficult relationship with the white wounds of calories and even his own. fortunately ole road needs to make oh it's a great idea and something to draw with for the good you. just. she is another road to sign to the c.e.o. and didn't have. a bit of road road who joins me in the studio welcome thank you so much as it said you are based here in berlin and you once said lynn gives me the breathing space what i have internalized in south africa so just that mean it's still south africa is it your inspiration so that it will always remain an inspiration for me it's my roots are in south africa but i think that being in berlin allows me that space on the fiction to have that distance away from a very vibrant v.t. conf

it's not been much fun for england for most of the first test against south africa.the squad have been hit by illness, a batting collapse in the first innings and scarce success for the bowlers this morning. but a fine rearguard in the evening session has setup a fascinating final couple of days in centurion, led by opener rory burns. adam wild reports. wherever england travel, their barmy army follows. on this centurion morning, what they found was frustration, the england squad ravaged by sickness, south africa unsympathetic, extending their lead further and further. archer eventually found a way through but it felt more like a blip. quintin de kock getting to grips with the best bowling england has to offer. tempers frayed, ben stokes and stuart broad with a frank exchange of views soon seemed to put it behind them. stokes replaced broad and he immediately did this. that is how to settle an argument. the exhaustion of the effort was obvious. archer's fifth wicket of the innings greeted with only muted celebration. south africa's final flourish taking their lead to

south africa's debt laden energy supplier eskom has been dealing with its hopeless lack of capacity through a process called load shedding south africans are regularly seeing their power being switched off because there's not enough to go around and this is the basic meat we need those seeds. economists fear its effects on south africa's finances the flow trading will have a dampening effect could will cool with the colony to reduce to an official recession but it is not cool with the economy to collapse. what is concerning is the fact that this this stage of low trading was not anticipated tall. now the south african government is appealing to the energy industry to help it find an extra $2.00 to $3000.00 megawatts of new capacity without it the lights will continue to go off and the cafes will continue to be shut. our correspondent from go is in as we saw there in the report how owners of small businesses are making the best of a bad situation an economist actually talking about a looming recession is the business community in south africa using patients. well definitely and as you say it

south africa distilling gin from elephant dung. but 1st to pakistan according to un sustainable development goals all. children should be in school by 2030 but this won't work for countries like pakistan. get off it's easy to clock in the morning and sajid muhammad should be getting ready for school but the 12 year old stopped going a few years ago in order to work and support his family plus a lot although i come here early in the morning and stage a late which is very tiring when i get home i have a bath and go to the must. we don't have money which is why i can no longer study. subjects situation is the norm for millions of children across pakistan a new report from unesco estimates some $5.00 men are out of school at the primary level and glows news of the most going to van posing unmarried as children and afterwards of going to school pakistan's then been doing education crisis is mainly down 2 decades of under-investment and mismanagement of the entire system and faith in politicians to finally improve things is so low that m

around the studio something what why rwanda i mean there are plenty of i mean i would think maybe south africa kenya i mean why rwanda well rwanda is of course one of the fastest growing economies in africa so africa stagnated last couple of years on the you know with the part about their struggles with a colony so rwanda is a good place to be economically speaking it's stable politically it's also not a very very big market so that also allows them to maybe test a product and see how it works out and it's quite unclear whether they'll be expanding this in terms of scale ability of course they're probably waiting to see the results for themselves and like they said in terms of demand for electric cars we heard that in the report there is not much of a demand for electricity bills in africa so this is on that way to be smitten with ride sharing as an option and speaking to that how feasible is electric mobility in africa it's not very feasible we are obviously always reporting in a lot about the problems power issues in a lot of countries i mean one that we haven't reported too much about it th

welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max keyser time now to go to south africa and talk with abraham cambridge of the sun exchange folders closure i'm an advisor i am i a done iris i see are very well howie oh excellent so listen it's been about 2 years since we last spoke so for those who don't recall tell us about some exchange what you call solar powered money some exchange is a pig's a pig a solar panel micro leasing platform and i was a baby and awoke to purchase a solar panel on line the gas and stored hid it in sunny south africa and eventually sell electricity to organisations schools and chose one lakh reserves you name it anyone from a desktop computer or a mobile phone can now slow the power africa the greatest thing about that is the income generated from selling this other is returned to people in big point so it effectively allows completely global irish of so pounds and wherever to the effect of the stream modify sunshine from one form into the other and why do you think this is profound is that many individuals especially these days are increasingly frustrated by that

south africa got more troublesome runs.heir ninth wicket in the closing minutes, but they aren't yet all out. england finishing boxing day with leftovers remaining. patrick gearey, bbc news. we would probably have liked to bowl them out before the close, but to keep them under 300, hopefully we can get the last week it quickly in the morning. if we get them under 300, we will be batting nicely, we are confident we can get a first—innings lead, so i think quinton de kock played beautifully, it would have been nice to get him early, but that is the way cricket works, all in all i think pretty pleased. in the premier league, mikel arteta could only manage a draw in his first game in charge of arsenal, while carlo ancelotti got his everton career off to a winning start. earlier, spurs came back from a goal down to beat brighton despite yet more var controversy. here's natalie pirks. it never rains, it pours. yesterday, jose mourinho‘s dog died, and tottenham were still reeling from allegations of racism in the crowd during thei

our natural existence of individual sovereignty while all primates of course have evolved from south africa that's where all the great experiments and humankind has come from and it makes sense that he would be from south africa here in america to rescue us from our primitive ways that will kill us if we don't evolve and marginal revolution points out some of the other you know technologies he's developing on why they're so important to an individual and to a society how you can protect yourself solar panels plus the tesla give you mobility even if saudi arabia goes up in smoke and world shipping lines are shut down that's how our federal government sets our national governments and these giant militaries keep us in line they say well if you don't have us then saudi arabia's oil might not get to you and there's going to be apocalypse and you're never going to be able to get to wal-mart to buy your goods well here they're saying if you have solar power panels at your home and fresh water and things like that you can you can survive any of that stuff but i would talk about dig a little izatio

on the game in south africa some see the top 2. is the top. of this body art are trying to prove that it's cool that. i am any of my good you know you're welcome to the program africa has the fig drug problem and it's killing hundreds of thousands every year we're looking at the suffering this multi-million dollar business courses and what can be done to stop it now according to the world health organization africa accounts for 42 percent of the global consumption of substandard and fake medicines their results are deadly 250000 drug related that are reported every year children are dying every year from malaria or pneumonia due to fit drugs flooding the market cartels free on developing countries with little or no regulatory oversight like in kenya where our correspondent melanie corrado. has been investigating it's been a year since 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a publi

reporter: ernest darkoh lives in cape town, south africa.an md and a master's in public health from harvard, and an mba from oxford. but he always knew he wanted to work in africa. ernest: we are literally one of the most richest and vibrant continents you can imagine, right? and alththough i technically dot have what i callll a home couny in africa, because i have moved around my whole life, i really do feel africa as a whole is my home, and i am a product of africa. and this is really a place where i feel like i am in my element and i can make the biggest difference. reporter: darkoh is visiting a new clinic for transgender patients. he's an expert in public health-care management. his company, broadreach, is helping the clinic optimize its operations. many of the patients are or hahe been sex workers. many are hiv positive. there is still a lot of stigma attached to transgender in south africa, and healthcare has been sparse. but here, both patients and staff are accepted for who they are. gigita: i choose to loveve ane truly to myself an

and will the rise of e-commerce spelled bad news for south africa's glitzy make up all this . i'm not a jones and this is due to the business africa welcome. online shopping is huge in most parts of the world in germany some 94 percent of internet users over 16 shop online but the situation in africa is very different there are fewer than one in 20 people use e-commerce a huge potential market but there are hurdles regulations such as consumer protection are lacking in many regions and purchases often don't trust online retail infrastructure is another problem if roads are bad reliable deliveries can't be guaranteed rural regions often don't have street names house numbers and payment systems are often in adequate despite this potential online retail giants have been cautious amazon for instance invested in south africa and 2013 after a year of losses it pulled out again china's alibaba has been more assertive setting up digital retail shops in rwanda and ethiopia but despite a whole market advantage it hasn't been easy for african challenges gerri an online platform jamia went

as a child he worked in south africa.y we organised the protests when my family was forced into exile in my dad stopped working and we came to britain. a few years later, i found myself and we came to britain. a few years later, ifound myself needing and we came to britain. a few years later, i found myself needing 50 yea rs later, i found myself needing 50 years ago the campaign to stop the 1970 cricket tour using the rugby tour of 1969 slash 1970 as the target for the springbok campaign. we disrupted the matches and forced the cancellation of the all—white cricket tour and i was never another one to britain until nelson mandela walked free from britain and apartheid was ended. do you want to pick up on that? we are following it chronologically, if you like. you area chronologically, if you like. you are a player in the late 60s, early 70s, and you are faced with a proposition that this was an important rugby country, south africa, but it is an apartheid country. you are faced with a personal decision to make. first time

micro-level in the 2nd half we talked to abraham cambridge of some sun exchange in south africa and he brings home the point that you can tap into the solar energy and fuel your own existence unencumbered by any state apparatus which is fantastic part of globalization that keeps us powerful as unique individuals is that we can speak to people around the world we're not ignorant we don't rely on one you know giant news organization for example or our state department to tell us what's happening in latin america or asia or anywhere else in the world we have internet access we can speak to people around the world and he points out here in this article starlink musk's plan for $12000.00 or more cheap high speed internet satellites will free the internet from reliance on any terrestrial government and you already see the beginning of the splintering of the internet as it's parts of it get handed off like dot org that domain name has been handed off to private equity so that's going to be like crushing that's one of the beginning of the privatization of parts of the internet and it's already

south africa, four down at the close. england clinging to hope.ck in this match is through a long, dark tunnel. patrick gearey, bbc news. there was plenty of late drama in tonight's premier league game, as wolverhampton wanderers fought back from 2—0 down to beat ten man manchester city 3—2 at molineux. wolves scored all their goals in the second half. matt doherty with the winner in the 89th minute. both city's goals came from raheem sterling. the champions are third in the table, 1a points adrift of liverpool. wolves have moved up to fifth. and you can find all the football news on the bbc sport website. but for now, that's all of the sport. back to you, huw. and that's all from us. there's more throughout the night on the bbc news channel. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. hello. this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. in a moment, a first look at tomorrow's front pages. astronomers are warning that their view of the universe is under threat, because of the prospect of thousands of new communications satellites being launched.

jonny bairstow following, it was starting to feel like south africa's day. root‘s dismissal only made that feeling stronger. with the captain gone, england put up little resistance. a difficult week on and off the field for the captain. we had to deal with a lot of things outside the game itself, but we stood up, especially in the last two days, and we've really come up and shown a lot of character. it's very frustrating that's all we've got to take from the game. england move on to cape town for the second test on friday. over half of england's touring party have come down with this flu—like lurgy — as they've described it — since they've been in south africa. whilst head coach chris silverwood didn't blame the defeat on it, he conceded it didn't exactly help. now i have never been involved in the build—up to a game like this before when you are told on the morning that your players are falling over. yesterday joined josh showed a lot of courage and there are players showed a lot of courage and there a re players left showed a lot of courage and there are p