Serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there much im going to. Want to know their story and for migrants terrified country lobel information for margarets. E. U. Leaders focus on africa on a 2nd day of talks in brussels but problems closer to home also dominate day 2 well look at how they use future relationships with the u. K. And the african continent as shaping up also on the program when some model of Economic Development 1000 bigger is edging dangerously close to default cant secure a suspension for its debt repayments. And they may be doing it for. But well meet the entrepreneurs whose invention is bringing power to parts of africa. This is deja vu business on robots in berlin welcome to the program e. U. Leaders have spent the past 2 days discussing the blocks relationships with the rest of the world they dont appear any closer to reaching a deal with the u. K. Over brics it but a day of discussions on africa proved more optimistic European Council president shalmi show says theres enormous potential for cooperation he used trying to establish a broad based Investment Program with its african partners also on the agenda debt relief efforts given the massive impact of coronavirus on developing economies. Lets bring in our senior european correspondent in brussels barbara vey is all barbara how important is the relationship with african countries for the leaders that i am and. It is this irrevocably very important because we have to remember 2020 was supposed to be africa here but that of course disappeared a bit off the agenda as through covert everybody talks about covert day in day out because the emergency is so dire but that also holds true for african countries and that was something that the german chancellor angela merkel. Acknowledged today when she talked about that the e. U. Need to do more to help african countries in this crisis aid by upgrading the Health Systems be of course there are attempts underway to help africa get. Their hands on enough vex in as soon as they come onto the market and all this is already relatively well planned and then as you mentioned of course theyre the Investment Programs the European Union wants to step up the Economic Cooperation and the ministers of the Member States are supposed to offer programs till the end of november they are supposed to now put something on the table in concrete because theres going to be at least in many e. U. African summit its the end of december when the european leaders met meet next to talk about their own problems so there will be a meeting and there will be some hopefully more concrete promises and pro ject now we see at the moment. This has also been a big topic of discussion of course the brits were pretty irritated when the you said yesterday that it was up to the brits to budge on the brakes deal what have they been saying in the u. K. This route obviously is the time for finger pointing i mean the negotiations are drawing to a close there are maybe 23 or maximum 4 weeks left to get to a deal so the british side said in very strident tone its all the fault of the European Union they havent been moving at all they are not giving us what we want which is a canada trade deal we remember sita the deal that took 7 years to negotiate and so they really need to badge now otherwise we walk that was more or less it but the e. U. More reacted rather calm and could be say in an almost grown up way lets listen how the german chancellor. Talked about this. Time in Great Britain to continue to be willing to compromise in the sense of an agreement. That of course means that we too have to make compromises. Each side has its red lines. Its important to us that ireland can continue to live in peace that we secure the internal market. In been in marked. Barbro there will of course be more talks probably over the coming weeks are we any closer or further away from a deal than we were 2 days ago before this summit between people in brussels said before the summit the chances for a deal are 4260 im afraid after the summit they have lowered their estimate to 30 to 70 but nothings for sure time will tell the next 234 weeks. In brussels thanks a lot for bringing us up to date now for a long time it was one of africas Fastest Growing economies but now zambia is edging closer to defaulting on its debts the government in the soccer is urging all of its creditors to suspend payments until next spring but agreement from private lenders is by no means secured. Zambia depends on copper it accounts for some 70 percent of the countrys export earnings but prices for the metal are volatile even more so due to the coronavirus pandemic Global Production and consumption are down driving zambia every deeper into debt zambias external debt has ballooned to 12000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars thats more than half of the countrys economic output major creditors are china and International Investors. Zambia has been struggling to meet Interest Payments on foreign bonds now the cash strapped country has warned that its inching ever closer toward at fault. The 1000 crisis shares a good part of the blame but some of the problems are homemade. Yes they speak to each other how by who is a financial analyst and joins us from lusaka report i just mentions obvious home made economic problems how has ended up with 12000000000. 00 of debt. I think were struggling to connect with. Mr. I dont think you can say what well leave it for now maybe try and reconnect in a bit but in the meantime lets have a brief look at some of the other business stories that are making the news german media reports battle Group Liberty house is preparing a bid for the steel operations of germanys to syncro such a deal would see. 2 of the top 4 still produces in your. German comic had a much stronger 3rd quarter than expected the owner of the spends brands suffered badly in the 1st half of the year because of the pandemic but has posted pretax earnings of 3000000000 euros for the month july to september. And shares in United Airlines now taken a hit after the company laid bare the impact of the pandemic on its finances revenues were down 78 percent year on year during the 3rd quarter says it was losing around 25000000. 00 per day during that period. 10 years ago saw the founders of people meeting at university and then deciding to bring Solar Systems to remote areas in africa today the london startup provides Hardware Software sales and Customer Services for Green Electricity on the continent. Supplying africa with solar energy via their headquarters in london might seem like an ambitious goal but its one that is determined to make a reality for startups founders months. Christopher baker brian want to end energy poverty. The beginnings of the venture were modest as a students generally organization the budding engineers vision to bring Solar Systems to remote areas and to link them up digitally. We managed to get some funding from our own university from other sponsors as well and we were able to that some provide electricity to some 60 households in a rural part of the rwanda and i think but a time when the 1st system got installed 1st customer that was really apply and that was very transformative in my own personal life because everything is theory until that point we saw this real major Global Challenge of billions of people who lacked access to reliable electric power and we may be naive back then felt that we could do something to make an impact. And the engineering students efforts soon bore fruit they developed the b. Box a digital platform that connects wind generators via a central server their system can for example detect technical problems ahead of time and correct them the boxes are currently provided to 10 countries mostly in africa the company also supplies the corresponding solar collectors and has so far served over a 1000000 customers. But already spent a lot of money and Energy Spending money on kerosene candles batteries for radios very bad diesel generator to spending tens of dollars a month on this sort of stuff so could we take that money that they already spending on energy and giving them Something Better you know if you included in here the c. E. O. s are in close contact with their Branch Offices in africa but they want to keep their h. Q. In london. And thats where they find the programmers and engineers they need. Its also where the money comes from. The boxes yet to make any profit but theyve just raised 50000000. 00 u. S. Dollars from International Investors and theres so much more to do there are still around 900000000. 00 people worldwide who have no access to electricity. About what we were talking about the moments ago on the air which has got 12000000000 yours of death and now looking for an extension to its debt repayments from its various creditors around the world we can speak to try to hound by a financial analyst in lusaka can you just tell us how likely is on the areas to get this extension that hes calling for. Thank you from what we see from the outside is very unlikely that the country will be able to secure this extension. Of the characters that are speaking to this is basically on the basis of the transparency that the country is showing in terms of the way that position is and has been a longstanding challenge that the country has had which the country has been pushing when i left 2016 and one of the conditions that the i. M. F. Has put forward as to why they cannot be able to do this is the issue around the transparency of all the 2 debt position of the country and this is revolving around the country has contracted from the chinese of the level 1000000000 to a 1000000000. 00 that the country owes the next. Approximately half 6200000000 is chinese debts and the terms and conditions under which this debt has been contracted to hear a very gray and betty concern for everyone try to hang by in the stock and by where i was catching on and thanks for joining us on day to me of business. Thank you very much. So from a Business Team here in berlin if you do want more from us check out our website www dot com slash business were also on facebook and twitter such as us on that by suggesting us and taking. Each session for spectacular pictures. Its their passion for nature. Its their complete devotion that makes the most while most photographers in the world. Come from traditional and sturdy. 5 adventures. One. 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