Entice anyone fires came from jurors or dealing with any and i thought i killed many civilians i mean the irish coming in clearing my father winding things i was a stone dont recall i wanted to build a life for myself lactase the totally but suddenly life became relish a kind of sob. Providing insights global news that matters d. W. Made for mines. That easel gate scandal is making history in more ways than one hundreds of thousands of these loners take you to court and its germanys a small city. The collapse of British Travel john thomas put scabious truism sector under serious pressure. And German Family business flourishes in uganda growing flowers in east africa for a budding global markets. And ventures all an extra business. Is in court in germanys very 1st Class Action Lawsuit the civil compensation claims relate to the Diesel Scandal the court will have to consider if Vehicle Owners suffer damage from the emissions Trading Software itself or from subsequent beds imposing on driving older diesel. They could be a watershed moment for germanys legal system 4 years after the emissions scandal broke hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers now have the chance to hold the carmaker to account. Its the 1st ever Class Action Lawsuit to take place in the country similar auctions in the United States have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. Really good of analysis for were confident about winning them and the arguments speak for themselves. The leaders knew about things from the star side from on funny and you havent put anything for that you cant contradict this. And. Put stock in lawyers maintain that the carmaker has removed the emissions cheesing devices and argue that diesel owners cannot claim for compensation while continuing to drive the offending vehicles the heart of it to this day hundreds of thousands of vehicles are still in use by customers for us this means that theres no damage and therefore no reason for compensation these days hearing comes just a week after german prosecutors charge 3 v. W. Executives including current boss happy with market manipulation accusing them of failing to inform shareholders about the Financial Impact of the emission scandal a further indication that the costs of germanys biggest postwar industrial scandal are still being counted. South africa has surprised many economists by posting a significant trade surplus for last month in july exports meaning a trade deficit of 245000000. 00 but solid sales for mines help tip the balance in august. For 50000000. 00 its positive news against the backdrop of gloomy a picture for South Africans economy is slowing the government expects growth to fall below its 100 percent target this year unemployment is at 29 percent. Well thats the highest since 20132013 rolling power cuts hitting homes businesses thanks to problems that state Energy Company esco in a new weekly newsletter called from the desk of the president Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted Economic Growth will be low it says the government is formulating a comprehensive Growth Strategy to take things to another level well he says hell announce that strategy within the next few weeks in the meantime lets talk to town correspondent as. First of all what is the president s strategy go to be. What she said theres so much pressure on him now and hes going to implement reforms to to lift Business Confidence and to boost growth and he got into that quick because he no longer is longest and not clarity of course that not. The problem is a little bit is that the budgets of the government this will go already overstretched is not a lot of money to invest and even even to borrow so they have a problem process that is that they have to be smart stick to be smart on how to spend that money and what we know so far is that theyre definitely going to look at the restructuring of state owned enterprises like. Talking about establishing an infrastructure funds to one test and to structure and hopefully more jobs as well so thats what we know so far have been a couple of weeks we know walkley i went to school Economic Growth strategy of south africa. The trade surplus thats just been announced that sounds promising or is that just a blip. Yeah it sounds promising but actually south africa east facing increasing headwinds the economy entered its 7 months of a weakening cycle in september. Business confidence is is the way this has been in 3 decades and you mentioned the unemployment figures after 29 percent seen rising deficit so yet it does was a little bit of positive news today for south Africa South Africa definitely need it but if you look at a kind of long term trend it hasnt looked good for a long time and it for a short time being asked of you know the government and our process definitely need to intervene fast so what needs to be done alice. Yeah what needs to be done of course to be investment in south africa i mean when they come up possibly keep president thats what hes been saying im going to explain this im going to make sure theres more investment in south africa so for that it is important. That there is it is a Clear Strategy so hopefully that will break some of the confidence back but as i said it is not going to be easy its going to be an uphill battle we only only to day heard again that there will be layoffs in another big my here in south africa need to go and work very hard to turn this around the battle in south africa continues thank you alex. Monday was the last chance for kenyans to swap their old 1000. 00 shilling banknotes for new ones a 1000 shillings is worth about 10 us dollars the new edition has been circulating since the beginning of june the idea was to flush out dirty money being ordered by tax evaders private business men and criminal groups those with large stashes of the old notes have to prove their legal origin thats forced some to get creative on the reported as counting out thousands of the old notes to buy a block from the sadies lonsway. Gabby is tourist sector is reeling after British Travel operated thomas cook went bankrupt last week with the season edge of begin hotel known as a scrambling to cut their losses the holiday firm was one of the largest tourist operators in the small west african country can be as government says it brought in over 40 percent of the nations tourists. The tourist season is only a month away in gambia normally that would mean hotels would soon be bursting with british holiday makers but the recent collapse of thomas cook has put that in doubt hotel e. A. s could only look on as their key source of custom disappeared. Thomas cook. Brings in about 57000. 00 clients to discount. And that constitutes about 40 percent of the division to some numbers to this country so it is something that did not go down well with. Not only the brothers in fatality but because of his 2 great effects to the economy of the country more u. K. Tourists arrive in gambia shores than from any other country without thomas cooks help the Gambia Hotel Association says it will have to find alternative cheap ways to bring brits to the beaches otherwise hotel owners will have to make tough choices if the status quo happens continues we would close one of our hotels. That we were building that. Should have opened in december. Because we have to show how we can fill up. The gambian government has organized to emergency meetings aimed at finding solutions before november when the tourists had been due to arrive. Customers stranded by telescopes bankruptcy may have to wait longer than expected to get their money britains aviation regulator says the company has failed to provide all the information it needs to refund holiday makers its a result of think the customers may need to wait at least 2 months before their claims can be processed hundreds of thousands of travelers believe stranded after the firm collapsed last week. German companies tend to be wary of investing in africa citing a range of hurdles from corruption to infrastructure but one step down based family owned a family owned business has found success in uganda cultivating flowers on the shores of lake the tory or the company has built a thriving business which is now exporting all over the world. To maybe a sea of green now but after a few months just in time for christmas the stems will be topped with rich red flowers jovian on sukkot works at this farm in uganda preparing cuttings for the long journey to europe shes happy the job is providing her with a steady income. And one more to Pay School Fees when im out there and. This is the guy flower farm a huge area sitting directly on Lake Victoria here German Companies select one is producing plants for export and theyre not the only International Player here he sed africa is valued by many as a location for flour production salaries are lower here and the climate is ideal but flour production in africa does have its problems there are accusations that too much pesticide is often used for production manager wilson kater says thats not the case we have monitors in the field we are trained very much to use as many as possible chemicals and. Chemicals that we we have. Kind of chemicals that we are using in this in this company. And has been approved. By the european union. From uganda to stuttgart the headquarters of selective one the Twin Brothers nielsen pair clem are the 3rd generation to run the Family Business in stuttgart the seedlings from uganda planted in the soil to take root the claims are often asked whether he wouldnt be more environmentally friendly to just do all the cultivating here. Because you dont have to artificially heat in africa and basically you have an incredibly high growth per area its actually the case that production there has an ecologically lower c o 2 footprint than if the cuttings were produced here. With wife without talking to listeners that so many here. Stood guard headquarters is mainly used for developing and planning next year a new office is being opened in ethiopia according to the entrepreneurs the cost pressure in the industry is enormous making the lower wages in east africa a major boon in africa we produce in east africa because the unit costs and the wages we pay for them fit well together and we also have enough manpower available its the only way we can still be successful in the market and its the only way we can sell our products at all i think thats good as a market while the opposite sometimes. With sales increasing even in china they claim twins are proud of a company thats gone from Humble Beginnings to one thats growing around the world. A certain business with. The for. Cultural fit for. Joining us from africa more or link to exception stories and discussions. Of easy town while whoops i d w to come smash the tree come join us on facebook g w africa. Means time to take stuff on. The face of all the fun time in europe just such the knowledge and the fun for the troops. Its hard to overcome boundaries and to cut. The time for. And you to every news coming up ahead. On. This is deja news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes national died. In cameroon weeklong talks to end the separatist crisis kicked off today best Key Stakeholders boycott it is its a size tuesday and whats at stake. We get it right this country just back on track oh we get it wrong this country may fall of the precipice so we really dont have much of a choice weve got to get it right and thats what this is all about