Long for the reality of the situation to sink in for many of us the coronavirus pandemic has changed our professional day today into something thats barely recognizable from before the world of work 2020 thats our topic today here on made welcome along so we all worry about our jobs in these Uncertain Times but the many refugees whove come to germany in recent years have had a different set of worries for a start theyve often arrived empty handed and had to find work in a completely strange environment but for some things change very quickly 4 years 4 years ago our reporter mario hooter metz to refugees from syria who found work an apostle sorting sensorium active we met with them again recently one of them still working at. Its another busy day at work for honest im not going to you know that a 3rd of the workforce at this parcel sorting office in magdeburg are refugees like honest who is from syria hes now responsible for 14 people and says there are Career Opportunities for everyone here. And none its just that if you show you have the potential to get off or not and you can really go far here among voters off the back in 2016 on a starter not putting parcels under conveyor belts his 1st job in germany in damascus hed been studying for an engineering degree before the civil war forced him to flee the country. All the young people with my old school they must go to the military and we dont want to go and kill other people so thats why i decided to leave working alongside him back then was fellow syrian gaius diop 4 years on hes moved on from the Parcel Sorting Center and now has better working hours. Guy and no more night shifts. Formerly the owner of a phone shop in syria hes now set up his own business in germany a car repair workshop called dr or alto it offers amateur car mechanics the use of car lifts and tools and he has plans for expansion his all of us i want to set up a 2nd shop offering express services. Like a tire change in 10 minutes or an oil change in 10 minutes we fix it vital but there are obstacles in his way not least the bureaucracy he still only has a temporary residence permit which is bad for business. Thats. Its really difficult i had a lot of ideas for my workshop and bought everything myself. Except for 5000 euros from the job center so i asked all the banks for a loan but they said no. The bank. Why because you dont have german citizenship or permanent residence permit. Thats the. Gaia story all because determined to keep on investing and ideally get that german citizenship. Known hes very settled in monte borg and says he no longer sees a future for himself in syria. Its been the. Scene in germany for 6 years now. Syria is a total disaster theres no water electricity its really tough. But now my family and i have everything we need. But its better here. After leaving syria 6 years ago he was able to bring his family over to join him in germany his youngest daughter who was born here. Shes now 4 years old. She and her brothers have grown up bilingual. I only have a couple of friends he speak at that at school i mainly speak german. So each of the die offs see germany as their new home even if theyve not always enjoyed a warm welcome they have encountered hostility but are reluctant to talk about it preferring to tell us about relations with their neighbors. It would if they could for distance at 1st but thats all changed for the better now. Photos from the past. Most of their old friends have left syria and now live all across europe but the dire obs have at least been able to stay together. He still thinks about syria a lot. Doesnt it thats what it looks like now and this is in damascus deciding to make the perilous journey to europe was not easy in front of a mind you could say ok all hope is lost and ill end up killing myself here how much of a christian some people do think that but if you do have a small bit of hope then you say i have to get out. Which most want to ask you. One is his own journey took him across 8 countries hes not seen his parents or his younger brothers and sisters for years. Im ending it so you just cant help thinking about syria. But honest does find ways of getting his mind off the worry so much is hard work which will hopefully also see him continue his rise through the ranks at the moment to book sorting office. And good luck to him now Office Workers make up half of germanys workforce and its hard to imagine a time without them but how long have offices existed here on earth invented them and will they still be with us far into the future as no house has the answer. The office past present and future. Offices have been around for a long time in ancient rome parchment scrolls along with the wooden or bronze tablets were kept in them during the middle ages scribes would copy out texts from the bible and offices in the 17th century lawyers Civil Servants and Business People set up offices in cities such as amsterdam london and paris. Offices were exclusively for work separate rooms that allowed people to work alone and undisturbed. Open plan offices emerged in the 20th century u. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a record setting office block in which 250 people worked in one room. Office buildings are intended to symbolize wealth and power but designed to maximize efficiency and productivity a production line for paper work. Open plan offices are not well liked nowadays in germany they are often noisy and dark workers feel cramped and constantly observed by bosses and coworkers will the pandemic mean the end for the office half of german Office Workers have been working from home to reduce the risk of infection. This saves time normally spent commuting to work and can better combine work and family some 77 percent of people whove tried it say they enjoy working from home. They might miss being together with their colleagues but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages the office of the future might start to look a lot like home. Absolutely nothing against my marvelous colleagues here mate but working from home does have its advantages that all some things you can do that might be frowned upon in a normal workplace as our very own olaf krieger can testify. More good morning. Morning so whats on the agenda today. Very interesting. Yes very interesting. 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So watch that web cam for some of us this is all we have a wanted plex of all workplaces and Flexible Working hours before the coronavirus working from home was the big exception but now at a single stroke thats all changed of a Business School in New York University of analyzed the work of more than 3000000 people around the world before the pandemic and now they found that on average people working from home tend to work one hour longer per day meetings usually have more participants than they did before the crisis and there are also more of them but on the up side meetings are on average shorter. The pandemic has accelerated digitalisation more than you have put together suddenly digital processes that werent even considered before it become possible but digital work during the Coronavirus Crisis has exposed a real lack of skilled workers in the area now looking for professional as you can drive digitalisation. Boot camp to find out more. The Global Economy is in trouble supply chain spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present Economic System and the importance of digital technology. Fisher is it in hamburg that describes itself as a school pool for digital talent. We are seeing a growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. For Short Courses it calls group camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 month course in data science for University Graduate costs a little under 9000. 00 euros. As a Web Developer costs just under 8000. Digitalisation combined with coronavirus being forced to deal with these things no. Flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to Remote Learning is the order of the day. We see people who want to change their lives some have been working in the profession 15 or 20 years and want to change course. They spent 3 months with us doing intensive training so they can work in an entirely new field. A need for many more digital professionals to start with the pandemic but it has made it greater. The problem on a small scale with. The lack of qualified personnel there are 124000. 150. So there clearly arent enough qualified. Digital publishing is one industry in need of more people. Are publishers magazines the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years its Online Presence has been growing fast its Online Publications now account for a 3rd of its revenues. We have to work on the future viability of a company all the time and that involves finding qualified stuff we have an arrangement with whereby we can contact its recent graduates at an early stage so we can recruit good candidates for digital business. Export driven Manufacturing Base is taking a battering because of the Coronavirus Crisis while digital developments are not going to speed. The digital. Groups and make them more digitally savvy were going to. Digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays theres no way around the need to optimize peoples digital skill sets. By the way work from home in the office or on the factory floor. Or prefer to work less. Time for friends and family the environment. From his work. A little less too so how about a 4 day week Christina Baca as i fancy the idea. Of monday tuesday wednesday thursday. Friday. The 4 day week more from telling more time for yourself Friends Family being lazy while keeping the same salary dream come true right and by the way im saving the environment here how. You want hours at work means fewer commuters and therefore missed traffic offices can stay shut for an extra day that reduces Energy Consumption and therefore Greenhouse Gas emissions. But honestly what would stop me from stopping excessively in my newfound free time. Or flying away for a short trip. Except of course. Can they really reduce our c o 2 footprint with more free time when our heads. You can see a positive correlation or at least in europe and north america which when working days where emissions are higher and we can days and days off where emissions are lower. We need. Employees to have more time tend to use public transport or right bikes rather than cars they also eat less processed food and in general have a more sustainable lifestyle thats something companies can encourage. Not also how can we create a systemic framework that will help us live more sustainably but might also include shorter working hours in order to reduce emissions from commuting and. Would also ensure that we have more time to behavior that we know is more sustainable otherwise find difficult to integrate into our daily should use. Them more free time doesnt necessarily mean a lower salary less working hours still mean less productive on the contrary several studies have shown that employees are more productive when they work fewer hours when microsoft tested a 4 day week in japan productivity growth by 40 percent. Efficiency in Fact Research suggests that reducing working time can increase productivity for example because people are more rested which helps them perform better. According to the German Federal institute for Occupational Safety and health a shorter working week needs workers have reduced stress and are less likely to take sick leave working fewer hours improves peoples concentration and makes them more productive. The 4 day week what theyre worth a try dont you think. For the Long DistanceTruck Drivers who are on the roads of europe or for day when. As a complete no go they can be on the road for weeks at a time their working hours are broken up by rest periods that are set in stone however the e. U. Now wants to change the working conditions of millions of truckers its an idea thats meeting with particularly strong resistance from Eastern European drivers romania for example isnt part of the zone and drivers have to go through time consuming border controls from their back sanda reports. Stefan carries out a few final checks before sitting out in his 40 ton truck technical defects are something he cannot afford because in his line of work in particular time is money. We have a 20 kilometer trip to contest to pick up goods for a customer in france. Stefans truck across europe begins at home in romania his family have come along to help load up his own luggage and food for the journey for the next few weeks his truck will be his home. Even after 6 years in the job the farewells dont get any easier. Stephon has completed hundreds of trips in that time but this one is special. This will be his 1st tour since the introduction of stricter regulations for Truck Drivers in the e. U. He and his colleagues are now required to return home every 3 or 4 weeks plus they have to spend their rest breaks in hotels instead of car parks as has been the case until now the aim is to ensure fair competition while improving working conditions especially for those from Eastern Europe but he says the new rules while well intentioned go too far. Only a limit of 8 weeks would be ok by me. 6 to 8 weeks. Because i know there are some people working full to 5 months nonstop that would be too much for. The lender has anything to do with Truck Driving but. The new regulations are a cause for concern in the capital book arist with around 60000 drivers serving destinations across the e. U. The road haulage sector is a big contributor to the romanian economy the Truckers Union says many shipping companies could go bust their reduce their increase of course wolf up to 15 percent who organize these return home over the drivers and also to hire new drivers to feel the gap when these drivers would not be available traveling to remain and back their trucks in western europe and these costs they have to be covered by the clients unfortunately of the clients we have 1st from other transport across europe with lower increase or of costs that means. Transport. To go out of the market. After 7 hours on the road stefan is approaching the border to hungary. The tailbacks for trucks are a problem that might well get worse under the new regulations the schengen zone within the e. U. Has no internal border controls but romania is not a member and drivers from here have to wait hours if not days to cross in either direction. To stay competitive some romanian shipping firms have set up branches in western europe and their number is likely to rise 200000 people will disappear. Next 3 years because this is the number of people who are connected. To other countries in western europe who operate from the transport industry but these persons will bring the families there and increase the number of people that will get. Stuff and cant really say what the future holds tonight at least he wont be making it across the border into hungary but the idea of being able to be on the road for a maximum of 4 weeks at a time leaves him feeling very uneasy much. Shorter hours obviously the money i earn will be much less if not. So im really thinking about whether all the effort still makes sense. No money no family a struggle to see the point of this anymore. Stephens employer has already reacted by packing up and moving some of its operations to spain which could mean him having to do the same but for now its lights out because his journey will continue at daybreak. And now its time for us to hit the writers chair next week will be back with another edition of night until then check out. A. Few posts. Happiness feelings for everyone should mean penises are very different from primates pianists we have a totally ridiculous the size nature of their favorite and this is Climate Change for a good sex how can an increased books you get smarter for free to double your books on you to play. Beethoven instead chose to do. It is it is a done it seems to. Know my g. P. The truth. So many rubber bands of stolen beethoven. And of course the subconscious always one thing is clear would be a total of just wildly popular. T. V. I see a sure shot i like you should. 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Humans love interaction and sometimes you dont have it if youre a bottle provided thats great theyre going to replace people at manufacturing theyre going to replace doctors and lawyers theyre going to replace people and jobs you would think they cant if all the work is being done by machines what humans do they try and keep Getting Better better education and take more and more advanced jobs or do they end up doing other things making art having social interaction with each other are we going to have enough humanity to make it powerful for everyone or some people are going to say i want everything and the rest you guys have to be poor and die it allows individuals to discover their humanity they have to learn a new meaning for life and new things to do thats a social revolution that hopefully we can move too slowly. This is g w news live from berlin a massive Fire Destroys the main migrant camp in greece thousands who fled the morea camp on the island the last most are now homeless the overcrowded facility was on her coronavirus lockdown arson is suspected. Also coming up Nobel Prize Winning author spent longer alexia bitch accuses the followers government of using terror against its people shes one of the last a leading opposition figure still free after a ways off detentions and for steep or take shifts. And a wonder of nature on top of the middle east garbage its a rest stop on the great stork migration from europe to Southern Africa now underway. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us fire has swept through the biggest migrant camp on the greek island of les boasts thousands of refugees if moria have been taken to safety away from the overcrowded facility there were no immediate reports of casualties authorities are investigating the blaze as arson local media reports suggest the fires may have been started as a protest against a coronavirus lockdown imposed this week. Daylight reveals the devastation morea lies in ruins it was a temporary home for over 12000 migrants stuck on the greek island of les boss human Rights Groups had long deplored conditions in the overcrowded camps operating at 4 times its intended capacity. Overnight several shacks went up in flames before the entire camp began to burn. Winds reaching 70 Kilometers Per Hour fanned the flames forcing thousands to flee. Near our. City for parts for. Her or. It is. The inhabitants headed to nearby hills and woods others began walking to the islands capital mytilene e riot police were deployed along the roads amid fears that the camps residents might spread the corona virus across the island last week morea was placed under lockdown after 35. 00 cases were detected in the camp. As day broke some residents return to search for belongings among the remains the fire has been put out but over 12000 migrants are now left homeless once more in their lives they have nowhere to go what next for moria is a question many have been posing for years and answer from authorities has now become ever more urgent. Lets get more on the story now with correspondent anthony carousel of a she joins us from athens hi anthy you have reported from morea frequently what are your sources there telling you about the situation on the ground right now. Well tristan has a Prime Minister came out just a few minutes ago with a with a nationally televised address and he declared the island of lesbos in a state of emergency and this will be him this emergency status will be enforced perform months which is indicative of the scale of the exercise now which the authorities have to face and this basically includes getting these 12500. 00 people into secure as shelters it also has to deal has to do with dealing with the Health Crisis there was an outbreak there was a coded 19 outbreak within the facilities and we understand that one of the reasons that these protests and fires kind of sparked were because were in response to the isolation procedures that were about to be involved upon so what were seeing right now is that authorities while the fire has been extinguished theyre trying to find it open area that tense will be set up for these people to find immediate shelter in the meantime 500 unaccompanied children minors have been sent to other locations the Prime Minister has also contacted brussels raising a bigger issue which is basically he was saying that greece can no longer shoulder the entire migration crisis and fend for these situations. And that was at the chorus of a speaking to us a little bit earlier from athens lets get the view from brussels now our correspondent berande rickert is standing by for us there hi ben you know the greek Prime Minister as we just heard as has declared a state of emergency and he specifically calling on the e. U. Parliament to take a. Action but what can that you parliament do here. Protesting is the only thing the parliamentarians can do right now and then we did the 20 of them have the stuff have spontaneously gathered here in front of the building of the European Parliament the European Parliament is only a code legislator and the whole migration policy process and so far the Member States refuse to accept any changes in gratian or asylum laws and they refuse of course to take migrants from greece and to distribute them to relocate them all over europe and this is the main problem right now well a lot of aid organizations have criticized it you today for not having acted sooner on this question despite a various warnings about the conditions on les paul so what reactions have you seen there to the fire today. So that if people. Actually about these pictures but as i think that cannot do much because the Member States the the governments of the Member States refuse to engage in a serious of process to solve the problem the e. U. Commissioner for migration is a value one son said today we would take the you would take 400. 00 on the company minus from the item but this is of course only a drop in the ocean and at the end of the month the commission will table a new proposal is how to solve the migration krises but it is still up in the air if the Member States will actually take this and engage in a meaningful discussion. Has been reporting from brussels thank you. He. Lets check in now on some headlines making news around the world rescue workers have recovered 22 bodies from a rock slide at a marble mined in pakistan more than a dozen miners remain trapped under the rubble in the northwest of the country the cause of the cave in which happened on tuesday has not been determined. At least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bombing in the Afghan CapitalKabul Officials say the attack targeted the countrys Vice President to sustain minor injuries no group has claimed responsibility and the taliban denied involvement. The United States is said to reduce its troops in iraq from just over 50023000 this month President Donald Trump is trying to make good on his Campaign Promise to get his country out of endless wars the withdrawal comes as trump faces heavy criticism for allegedly denigrating american war dead. The oscars association has unveiled a new diversity whirls starting in 2024 films vying for the top prize best picture need to include people from minority backgrounds both on and off screen they cademy awards have often been criticized for mainly nominating white filmmakers and actors. So in belarus the government crackdown on opposition figures appears to be ramping up the latest to be targeted was lawyer maxines knox who was taken into custody by masked men on wednesday according to an associate unidentified people also tried to enter the apartment of Nobel Prize Winning writer step planet and the. Diplomats from Different European UnionCountries Fund to her apartment to show support for alexi of it is now the only high profile opposition think your still street in our. State of you correspondent Nick Connelly is in the belarussian capital for us what is the latest you can tell us on the detained opposition figures. Well as you mentioned that experience a 72 year old Nobel Prize Winning writer the only major senior this if you can still free and in her home country not been thrown out yet it was extraordinary scene of people out building today waiting for news after she had reported that unidentified people tried to cool her door get into her apartment should be receiving calls from unidentified numbers but the real news big news of today is maybe youll remember she disappeared off the streets of monday then there was extraordinary story of the attempted deportation by the regime to them yesterday do you stop that by repeating today weve heard that she is now to be charged with trying to seize power here in belarus it seems not one of the a colleague someone we interviewed just the other day and money because his personal lawyer all 3. 00 of them now facing that charge which carries a prison sentence if it were to come to a commission. To seems to be a concerted effort to really crack down on leading figures of this protest movement i mean how do you see this playing out. On how the road map to this no one has any idea where this is going that well thats what makes it so exciting because its so scary for the people here in belarus who basically havent had a. Political life in this country for a quarter century a quarter century during which one man called all the big shots but now it seems like the government is making good on its promise to crackdown on dissent and is really willing to use sentences if people are not willing to be pushed abroad as has been the case with lots of leading figures including. His main challenger about last election here and now arrests and Violence Police getting harder with protests on the streets but people still tell you that they are willing to come out time and time again and that they believe the government wont be able to arrest all of them. Nic what about external factors here at what role do you see russia playing in the situation in belarus and where do you see a europe in this. Was a difficult situation one hand russia coming out in very strong support. Expect to go to moscow next week who has already said that hes willing to provide Police Special forces an extra support for the terrorists if the protests were to get more violence and that hasnt been looking like its going to happen here but what is going to happen and whats going to have is the russians are going to support the regime here financially maybe write off some debt and also there are russian specialists and and advisors here working on the ground that are supporting the regime in terms of propaganda working in state t. V. That is already fact the european hand is a lot weaker apart from sanctions that have been introduced time and time again that dont really achieve very much theyre all pretty able to hurt the regime too much its more about symbolic gesture support allowing to. Vilnius and to not recognize the result this election here would be very difficult to see what the European Union what the western world can do for these protests right now. Debbys nikolay reporting for us there in minsk thank you very much. Now twice a year storks follow a 12000 kilometer migration route between Southern Africa and europe and one of the best viewing spots for bird watchers to see the wonder of nature is a garbage dump in the middle east. Time for break for flocks of white storks in the Jordan Valley and the occupied west bank at dawn on you started just yasi leshem is up early to observe the birds at this huge garbage dump twice a year distorts navigate their way thousands of kilometers from europe to Southern Africa and back israel and the palestinian territories are like a bottleneck there one of the main my qatari routes for millions of parents. Because they avoid to fly over their mediterranean so we are like a highway across or corrosion between 3 called good and so we are lucky to have in fact 600000 stalks were flying twice a year over year all there were almost all the World Population of whites talks about how the 50000. 00. 6000. 00 or so we are lucky to be at their best high rate of the job would still. Rather than taking a shorter route over the mediterranean like smaller birds stalks fly over land to catch up or it streams of warm pockets to write a thermos to conserve energy. The landfill is like a pit stop for the storks to just stay for the night to rest to feed and got the strength before setting off on the next leg. But you get last 10 years they will to look for. Yet you are places where you catch a thief but for garbage that of course they have plastic bags and stuff like that which is of course dangerous but they go where they have these the food although bird migration happens twice every year it still amazes us who studies to birds for decades unlike most humans the storks dont need g. P. S. To arrive at their destination we had one stalk that was amazing for 13 years she was going every you for the same nest in your book near 1000000000 to this same tree near kept the year after year. If they have stored wins she can compensate and she knows how to go up and say they got exactly where she wants to go because theyre doing it for billions of years. Its time for this truck to take off every day they fly between 300 to 500 kilometers next on the egyptian sinai before they continue their exhausting Journey Towards their winter home in Southern Africa. Coming up next how the coronavirus and that nick has pummeled the south african economy with no sign of a turnaround in sight business with Stephen Beardsley in a minute staterooms. Highlights. Program. W dot com highlights