Cancers. And there are many stories. Make up your mind. Made for mines. The fate of thousands of Airline Workers rests in the hands of the u. S. Congress tens of thousands of u. S. Airline employees out put on unpaid leave as washington remains in deadlock over the stimulus also coming up south africa is open to International Travelers again but auto rison business travelers kid into this is coming. Its just starting to emerge from a strict coronavirus rocky ground. And is losing its technological edge thousands of ideas specialists have pledged to ukraine to escape the violence at home. But im pretty new business on morning joe johns in berlin good to have you with us u. S. Carriers American Airlines and United Airlines have said they will put a combined 32000 workers on unpaid leave starting thursday after a government Payroll Support Program expired at midnight republicans and democrats this week making a last ditch effort to a bipartisan stimulus package that could include support for the Airline Industry but divisions between the 2 sides remain. Vacant airport check in counters half empty planes this is the state of the travel industry and the wake of the Coronavirus Travel restrictions have dealt a major blow to u. S. Airlines and to the workers they employ tens of thousands of u. S. Airline employees who are put on unpaid leave thursday as washington our means and over help for the industry. I mean i dont know how to feel right now do i feel sad i feel scared i feel angry and frustrated there are so many emotions that are holding through my veins and through the veins of you know 8000. 00 other American Airlines flight attendants to trumpet ministration has proposed 20000000000. 00 in support for airlines it would extend a Government Program thats been helping pay employees salaries publicans and democrats remain far apart on the size of a broader stimulus package that would also include help for millions of laid off workers and state and local governments. To keep people in this state of worry and uncertainty is just cruel and so this is got to get done both in terms of just human kindness but also in terms of the reality that the funding and the requirements to keep people on the job and to do noneconomic things that the earliest cant support right now with only 15 percent revenue in the middle of this crisis. A real deadline thats why there is a real deadline that were facing right now the airline employees are Still Holding on to hope that their furloughs will be brief. American airlines and united say they will reverse the leaves if it bailout is approved. Of for more on that story im joined by ends caught our Financial Market correspondent in new york what are the chances then for a new coronavirus stimulus package any time soon. Well more a clearly is needed and not just in the Aviation Industry im spending standing in front of a local Movie Theater in brooklyn actually i started reporting from here early on in spring when the crisis struck and all Movie Theaters got closed the place is still closed as you might see see you on the other side and this i that was the science they put up in march i would say and its still on there so we still havent reached the other side of the pandemic and Small Businesses and also Unemployed People clearly need aid but at the moment the proposal from democrats thats on the table in the house and the amount of 2. 00 trillion dollars will very likely not make it through Senate SenatorMajority Leader Mitch Mcconnell hinted that he will not approve this proposal so more initial negotiations would need to be done so it can still take some time before we might see an agreement in congress oh id well as you put it i mean a lot of the 1st sectors are hot it is the namaz Entertainment Industry of course but has the president think that the economy supply in terms of Consumer Spending manufacturing jobs i believe new data has been out today. Definitely it was the change of the months were getting tons of data much more tomorrow especially also on friday. Jeffrey 4th earth will be the last jobs report before the president ial election so the figures that weve got to show some improvement there when it comes to Consumer Spending when it comes to the Manufacturing Industry but growth is slowing so thats what weve see and what weve seen in the past couple of weeks yes we are still starting to recover from the big drops that we saw especially in the 2nd quarter but growth is slowing so we get mixed signs from those economic reports and ideas caught in new york thank you so much. To south africa now its reopening of International Travel got off to a somewhat underwhelming starts on thursday traffic was minimal at major airports following a decision to bog visitors from high risk countries but after a 6 month travel ban there was plenty of celebration among travelers and those who work in the tourist industry he say to increase reports from cape town. The water salute is a cheerful airport tradition to celebrate the 1st arrival of an airline at an airport or the retirement of a studio pilots today the whole city and cape town is celebrating the 1st International Plane is landing here again in cape town up to a 6 month break just to show you how this year full and important it is for the country have a look at dozens of journalists who came here to cover that. Life back home and to leave the super excited so most of all. That was the moment this is a place like this we understand that on the 1st international flights. It was mainly south africans who came back here but they havent been able to come back home for 6 months now but Tourism Industry is of course hoping that in the next days more and more tourists will come back because the industry has been suffering a lots in the past 6 months according to the south African Tourism business pound so more than 1000000 tourism related shops where impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and this is of course something that the people working at the airport also failed for example the taxi operators were almost out of business during that time i love you my wife is going to say oh its not true again its my 1st day to be here. It was a disaster because it is our savior no. Room for 2 food steamed. Persian. Persian and it is not likely that things will get back to normal here anytime soon also because tourists from high risk countries are still not allowed to come here that includes the u. S. The United Kingdom and the netherlands all countries that usually make up a huge share of International Travelers that visit south africa International Travelers for for leisure. And because they spend more entertaining to stay longer and of course the effect of the travel restrictions is to choke off key Source Markets including the u. K. The usa and france and that will have a negative effect on the tourism and hospitality sector and slow down i think the prospects of economic recovery in the western cape and its precisely for that reason that we think that the travel restrictions imposed by National Government needs to be revisited the government says it will review the list of high risk countries every 2 weeks now last year the International Airport in cape town had more than 10000000 arrivals. But this year the management hopes that in the beginning there were 20 percent of capacity and hopefully by the end of 2020 if there was 50 percent. It was reported by the. The political crisis in belarus threatens the countrys sector which accounts for some 6 percent of g. D. P. Since demonstrations against the authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko began in august thousands of belorussian tech workers have fled to ukraine for the opportunity to work in safety. But demonstration against the regime in minsk but this one is in kiev thats where max car leave scheme now does his protesting the 30 year old head of Software Testing at a Technology Firm requested the transfer to the ukrainian capital following a brutal encounter with bella rusian security forces. They took me aside threw me on my knees began to kick me and beat me with truncheons and i covered my body with my hands to protect me from their feet. They started shouting slogans like what do you want more freedom do you want change and i said guys im going home i have a cat and a dog at home what do you want from me. The more you know. Hes not alone ukraine counts 2080 workers from belarus among recent arrivals after the country loosened immigration restrictions its not just the violence theyre escaping but the growing disruptions to the internet to kiev government is eager to have them its even working with a local tech firm s. Pro to recruit i. T. Workers from bella reuss there are a lot of candidates to buy t. Work was thriving in bella reuss accounting for 5 percent of bellary xeon exports. Alrighty it was that when the internet goes down in bella ruse our people get on a plane and an hour later we meet them at kiev airport and bring them to the office they dont have to do anything they just come sit down and work on their projects you know at the very beginning we didnt offer any jobs but were receiving more and more applications and people are asking about jobs because it looks like some businesses and i. T. Companies have shut down unfortunately. Currently have ski is one of the fortunate ones part of an industry where he can work almost anywhere. And he is a reminder of the top story with. Tens of thousands of u. S. Airline employees have been put on unpaid leave us washington remains in deadlock over health care for the industry. As a Business Update at this hour for me and the team and berlin as always thanks for keeping us company stay safe. Conflicts you dont hear a lot about again your feast days for more than 2 months file sharing compounds financial corruption and see government demonstrations by just this week from socio disbelief so such a minister from social clubs 5 years she contributed to the job its mistreating its most vulnerable she should get to the right so. Slick so for 60 minutes. Im not often out of the jam i just sometimes i am but im still laughing when. The german thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes bequests in here thinking shes a country that i dont. 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Believe this is news africa coming up on the program a big birthday and also everybody is saying a bracing nigeria is marking 60 years of independence to date these protesters who refer to themselves as concerned by gerry and say there is little cause for their twitter hash tag revolution now has been trending in the country. Hello im christine one day its good to have your company nigerias president mohamed hari has called for National Healing as the west african giant 60 years of independence from British Colonial rule Officials Say abrasions was scaled down due to the current virus pandemic but more notably there were antigovernment demonstrations in a number of cities nigeria is currently experiencing deep economic and security challenges state of new cars funded by the fall as this report. Nigeria is turning 60 but if you look at it state youll find more reasons to be concerned than to celebrate 6 decades ago when this country declared independence it had a population of 45000000 people today more than 200000000 people live in nigeria a country that is fragmented along ethnic and religious lines a country that is battling terrorism and violence over lack of food and axes to basic infrastructure millions here live in extreme poverty and that number is expected to rise due to increasing food gasoline and electricity prices more and more people will be pushed into a life without a future the divide between rich and poor is deepening nigeria is far from unity and the politicians in power are losing credibility as they are unable to stop rampant corruption and bring much needed peace and stability so what to nigerians think about their countrys birthday. Is Independence Day a day to celebrate many to go on. With. Good progress toward the political. Issues in the area of. This present. To. Me that are not making those. Poor out these are the opinions of just a few people of course but they represent the experience of millions here in nigeria a country that still has a choice between becoming a failed state oh turning things around before its too late. And so for more reflection on nigeria at 67. 00 vice and nathan john onto the program he is a nigerian oftenest special interest and lawyer whose story. You have twice been shortlisted for the cain prize for african rising welcome to the news africa i guess its made to start off with one of your latest books that is thats waiting 19 released becoming nigerian a guy what is it to be a nigerian i guess in 2020 or to be a larger than 2020 it must be very complicated for a lot going to specially for those living in nigeria for those living outside it is to always have to explain why things are so complicated and so i think were engaged in this. You know between pride of country are you frustration with all of the terrible things that are going on which most of which are preventable yeah i mean its talk about those terrible things because it looks like nigeria has has has all the ingredients right to make the perfect dish Natural Resources and the people of nigeria a massive resource there you see a lot of investment into the country for instance that ican value bosses who feel they need to set up shop in your country but it just doesnt make sense why this country appears to be punching below its weight what would be your assessment of the reason for that. Meanwhile while i would agree with the premise of this question i would also say that it has the same ingredients that make it very likely that the current state of affairs exists so for example the same things Natural Resources we know the shameless resource costs. That that makes countries that are developing with huge amounts of resources trapped in a cycle of dependency. Then we also have politicians who are trapped by this dependency. Have a crutch to hold on to so what id spoil diamonds all of that so this of course makes for what i would call a lazy Political Climate where people know that whatever they do there will always be diamonds to sell there will always be the oil itself i mean even that itself is is in doubt these days because of course as we know resources are finite theyre not. Theyre not an Endless Supply right however one of the things i think that makes nigeria what it is is this unfortunate mix of history. And of of the nature of the country and the fact that we have not agreed on on a structure that works for all so if it produces the kind of politicians that are. Rent seeking you know opportunists who operate in. With such reckless abandon and have no consequences for them because there are no consequences for politically an action. Or all or criminal behavior the stings position right. There i did i do want to come in there because i mean a lot of people out will point out that they divided the country between the rich and the pla because of course the number of poor people in nigeria is growing at a very alarming rate in fact this country took over india as the single country with the most amount of political in it but then you have a lot of wealth in nigeria as well and so thats one divide of the ad that is the divide between between the northern the south what can you tell us i know that you are and know that at yes. This north south divide has always existed i mean since the birth of country so its not a new situation it only is exacerbated by the fact that we have a particularly responsible set of political leaders. Who have thrown all caution to the wind and who operate in a manner. As to suggest that it is trying to worsen tensions to to stoke fires that already exists so for example between the north and the south weve always had resource sharing issues weve always had the issue of who takes walked in this political structure weve also had the issue of splitting appointments and all of that now the current i would call them the current regime. Does not do what traditional politicians do which is try to appease both sides this government is just completely insensitive and they just dont care to just say so for example its very interesting i was just going to look at a tweet from the president this morning where he says democracy the world over time pursuing in my jericho denies a power of the people however if some constituencies choose to bargain off their p