A decent. Place to talk about a. Bridge. So you dont want. To just. Tell me. Just whats a free trade deal with these days and weeks after the african continent a Free Trade Agreement was signed countries have been closing the borders and nigerian oil says its take shot until next january. Our building megacities is putting an icon of the african landscape at risk as well as the livelihoods of those who just and. Im playing catch up an old gas guzzler goes green going to be dealt with its not a bad thing its 1st pitch. Electric to be mass produced. It as well and lets do Business Nigeria says it will keep the borders to neighboring countries closed until at least january 31 next year and according to officials that wont be the end of it its just the latest african nations to shut down its borders kenya closed its border with somalia in june in august but want to briefly shut some crossings with the democratic republic of congo in september sudan did the same with libya and the Central African republic citing security and economic dangers geria then close its borders to benny and cameroon it says through cattail smuggling of rice and other goods the closures are a slap in the face of the confidence integration efforts the african continental Free Trade Agreement provides for the Free Movement of goods and persons throughout africa 54. 00 countries including i geria have signed it i jarius move is causing havoc for its neighbors who depend on africas biggest economy for survival. Traitors in the city of morality in the share a desperate for their Border Crossing to nigeria to open they can no longer sell rice or other food projects on the other side and trade with nigeria is the a biggest source of income. And we are very angry at the nigerian Border Closure is causing a lot of harm to the people they cant get on with the business they are in their money with so we are very angry with them causing this border with. A. Closure has had many effects being import and export a lot of things to a Good Neighbor nigeria but what he has done is not fair we want the border we opened as soon as possible. People in the share and other nigerian neighbors are extremely dependent on trade with what is africas most populous country and even though both countries also import goods from nigeria its still keeping its borders sealed. Stories want to clamp down on what enters the country and where. Whos on the list of such as rice used to produce a certain. Should not be exported to the country as a result of this. Or it is a little bunny is what is in a rise in and if we do not do for now imports can only come in through nigerias sea and airports which are easier to monitor and control the government says land borders will remain closed until at least generally 31 next year. Judge or in barrows following this story for us from kenya joy nigerias Customs Agency trumpets this as an overwhelming success but whats it doing to business. Its hard to think businesses because when you look at the businesses at the border areas in most of the african countries the biggest players there are Small Businesses these fall in the category of micro and Small Enterprises will definitely the ban on the implication or movement of goods by land is going to hurt loss of their businesses but also when you look at a country like gano which is next to a jury and it is also had to because most of the woods that come through in the share have to go through nature and before they can get to ghana for instance or that is definitely going to be a negative effect on all the neighboring countries which also happen to be members of the Economic Community of West African States and that in itself is going to hurt its regional block trade as well as have many more countries than them we think hurting here what if this drags on a lot longer i mean it sounds like it could well the minister of Foreign Affairs in ghana today did ask that they should convene an emergency meeting to address this issue because if its going to continue past 31st of january 2020 then the entire region is going to get paralyzed as of today we were also seeing some of the guinea and treat as well pru testing and they were shutting down some of the nigerian trip is tops in areas like the sound of parts of ghana so it doesnt look good it could actually turn out to be one of those economic attacks or wars that we are seeing between nigeria and its neighbors just briefly what what is really behind this because it sounds so counterproductive at a time to the conference trying to create this pan african free trade zone. Thats right well i guess the biggest reason here is that major areas thinks it can protect its locally produced goods you can actually look at the list of what is being banned rice and tomatoes as well as beer and Vegetable Oil and major ia is defending itself and saying you know they can locally produced this so we do not have one age area does not have to have these same products important but the Ripple Effect is that now prices of these very products are going to shoot up a joy thank you very much for the latest on that and for keeping a watch on developments for us a Construction Firm in the senegalese capital that chis is driving demand for more and more materials extra buildings mean more heavy metals and more concrete but the sourcing of such materials comes at a cost to the people and their environments. The mighty tree is a Proud National symbol of senegal one can live for thousands of years but in this forest the peace theyve enjoyed for millennia has been interrupted. A vast quarry has opened up to provide a seemingly Endless Supply of limestone the nearby dhaka where its used to cement the corys steady spread has swallowed up much of the land previously occupied by the powerful trees the tree lost to the locals. The tree is a truly cultural tree its a tree of civilization for us. Here makes couscous from the power of leaves and the path of the tree is used to treat various diseases. The baobab tree isnt the only victim of dark cars insatiable need for limestone. 65 kilometers from the capital the feeling the Ripple Effect. Insists the crack in her wall is a result of the continuous blasts from the nearby quarry and locals say the impact is more than just structural. Since the work started in the chorus theres been an increase in respiratory diseases tuberculosis asthma infections such as pneumonia its really effective for villages and its a fact that the reports we send out shows that theres an increase in these diseases. For the Company Behind the quarry denies its activities are harming locos the senegalese government says the Land Clearing is lawful with the Environmental Impact assessed before permission was given. Meanwhile the trees of the forest continue to disappear swallowed up by the concrete jungle that grows in their midst. The worlds most valuable publicly traded company may soon come from saudi arabia. Regulator on the approval boosting of state oil giant saudi aramco. After years of waiting saudi aramco for its biggest climate polluter and the worlds most Profitable Company will offer investors a piece of the kingdoms prize a. State owned aramco accounts for 70 percent of saudi arabias revenues. The i. P. O. On the Riyadh Stock Exchange could value the company a 2 trillion dollars and make around co worth nearly as much as apple and microsoft put together. For us. 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Have been meeting with lawmakers in to discuss green and future technologies the summit comes as to make a begins production of what it calls a break through vehicle. Here comes the car that has been gearing up for for the last 3 years the id 3 it is b ws 1st mass production purely electric car. Herbert deeds the c. E. O. Of the company is pitching the id 3 as a do or die moment for germanys critical automotive sector but im tend to feel that at the moment you hear a lot about the decline of the german Automotive Industry but whether it comes to this is up to us its an issue of whether we take advantage of the opportunities that are brought by change. Once beat it german chancellor Angela Merkel was on hand to tour the factory her government will now have to stump up to subsidize charging stations its taken v. W. 3 years to rebuild its plant in which will now become the Largest Electric car Building Plant in all of europe b w is a late comer to the immobility business but customers should be taking delivery of the id 3 by the middle of next year the market for electric cars is growing fast but it will be a long time before they replace vehicles with combustion engines the most optimistic forecast suggests that in 20 years fossil fuel driven vehicles will still outnumber them by 2 to one. One of the forecasts reporter says this is an all or nothing. Theyre planning to make respondents the call of the biggest plant in europe for electric cars which is huge and theyre planning to actually produce 330000. 00 cars a year and if you think about it in the 1st half of 2950000 cars round about and when youll be registered in germany so it does show that a lot of v. W. Is future is riding on the electric car and its a very very big bet to make basically. Business with. More and more young people are striking to save the planet man and were the people who would like to keep living on this planet and if we dont save the planet now itll be too late if thats out of the 16 year old organize a europe wide Climate Congress hours that leave time for school in france we accompanied 3 young climate activists. 60 minutes. People. The world over information provided. The means they want to express d. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. This. Coming up on the program while. Leaving the country well find out how a town in guinea is feeling the effects of migration and what makes people want to leave also coming up. In new drink in south africa infuses gen with the funds are unique to east africa