broken cars meet the women collecting and restoring vintage vehicles in south africa. christine would rates gets half your company a report out today by human rights watch says hundreds of thousands of people suffering from mental illness are being kept shackled in chains many of these cases have been reported in countries across africa researchers found evidence of this happening in look enough gonna in kenya live variables and be done sierra leone somaliland and nigeria according to this 9 study social stigma attached to mental health often plays a big pot but also a lack of support or awareness about intell illness now here are a few testimonies from some victims that human rights watch has spoken to. i'm glad they were hurt in that regard the one would have. to to your record about the big race to smooth through that how could you listen. to me but if you mind me what needs to. give you my niece after 2 and for more on this we've invited on to the program elsie is africa director for human rights watch welcome to news africa. must tell us more about the victims of chaining who do they tend to be i mean it's all demographics we have seen. women as auld as 6 years old i've got a children some as young as 10 years old they've been chained. up in complaining species. i didn't yet. and why are people doing this tell us more about the perpetrators and why they're doing this. so i mean we have come to you know people change for years in steps or on the institutions in private institutions i thought i was in shock to shut out already just couldn't stand you know christian and islamic i guess i think several of the countries we basically had including nigeria in my own country. and in kenya. yet i want to cry or sleep tonight food for all of 2 week 1st the fast in the name or you know spiritual healing we are forced to take medications. questions to face physical and sexual violence and you know often can't and we'd give you an example of a bad boy who once and know the nature of the area where we found a dozen people in one room be sure the priest we said has caused us the act test the buyouts that be said well from floggings by to stop you know so it's this is this is your question what it is it is time to go round and greet that and now see this is obviously a widespread problem but i wonder what informed human rights watch suit to commission this report. so i mean you know openly we nor from you know the world health organization and the world bank estimation that we're that 7 or 782000000000 people reading 10 including children have a mental health condition yet governments paint less than 2 percent of the health budget on mental health that's just mental health generosity when he comes to a shop killing people for mental health conditions that is almost completely on to the reader that there's no data look at an issue quote in its head response or efforts to eradicate it and we got on x. you know just from one example and realize it was rather well looking at other issues that the rest so many people shop shop called chintu trees knocked up and get rims in a ph and they shaped in or about crowded out of the institutions i mean we couldn't look away from me to was impossible to turn away from show let's settle for what what needs to be done so i mean clearly what needs to be drunk shoppin should be battened and thereby ensuring curative enforcement mechanisms that would ensure regular make money tureen of tips run and private institutions and facilities and all of these i'm hearing sense has really just and have government needs to invest in quality says about eye for people community mental health services i mean that's just not an option it needs to be quote you need to add in needs to be a where you stick approach to dealing with this type spread problem and then you know you cannot just needs to be done to reduce teen mom and that is associated with gentle health threat that's also shaken human rights watch africa director thank you marty. then i joined government's plans to make the country less dependent on food imports have been dealt a severe blow floods have washed away 2000000 tons of rice leaving fears or other farmers in desperation now this years and president of rainfall also impacted other crops including millicent corn now there are fears of a food security correspondent funny for char travel to kibbie state that's nigeria's biggest rice producing state where about 90 percent of all crops have been destroyed. at least $2000000.00 tons of fries gone his source of income now buried under water now while he is a local farmer he owns 2 and a half factory so farm and here and he's desperate to save any of his crops to provide for his family. every day i feel my body is weak because i can only think about what i will eat how will i pay for medicine for school fees for my children how should i even get back to farming they're not going to me and it's rainy season but the quantity of water was unusually high this time dams and rivers were able to hold back the water flooding a number of states across nigeria can be has been especially hit hard these farmers are trying to transport their cattle to dry land improvising amid lack of infrastructure. not much is left of this bridge it's been washed away like many roads and hundreds of homes the people of cabby we're actually expecting a really good harvest season but most of the crops especially rise have been destroyed during the past weeks of flooding. about one quarter of nigeria's rise grows in kebbi the state has become an important player in recent years boosting domestic food production and while he is one of 200000 registered farmers year who have benefited from government loans to increase production since 2015 he takes us to his home most of them here are made off much too easily destroyed by the flood. now wiley must provide for a family of 11 where i want to rebuild my house but i don't have the means to do so i want to buy food but i have no work i've been hoping the government will help but so far nothing will come of it. the newspaper reports the government has sent a delegation to candy they came they saw and they left given the lack of resources it remains unclear just how much relief will poor in. response personnel fries farmers and cabbie says with climate change floods will keep a cure and he's calling on the governments to invest in farming in sustainable seeds to be prepared they're counted our car note to counteract this local. food we have made it we have made we are proud if we're here we're going to be there in trouble because. nigeria is struggling on many fronts to provide food security one flood exposes this will narrow ability which could not have come at a worse time. now collecting classic causes often consider it a hobby for wealthy old men but for south africa mostly for coal it's one that's just simply not true the 38 year old and her family restored vintage cars in their remote hometown in the eastern cape province our correspondent. visit. this 947 pontiac is no simple phone with so on as bright and joy she bought the vehicle for less than 200 euros so far she spent about 2 years and around 2000 euros renovating it. thanks. the 38 year old renovates vintage cars which she later than either runs out or sells for nice price a property in the middle of nowhere on south africa's eastern cape looks like a cross between a scrap yard and take our museum. i don't have so much equipment i need is inclined to remove the mast you know he's. 7 years ago and i saw a documentary on classic cars that sparked your interest. her husband works for them and is a polity but it's also a gifted car mechanic together they founded a company now they have 3 employees. i used to pray god to give me. a lady like that like that now of course it from. bit of it when i'm sitting here on my. own and i'm getting hit pretty. used to call me the mother of the broken. sometimes they do they tell me the negative way that's just listing time with these cows. clays when i finish that point that they do so i go on to say no no just continue. today they're off to look at another potential project and i was right from their village they travel as you might expect and the classic car. they're looking at in 1963 japanese stetson pickup truck the quality is ok. everything will be just it's. not i don't think i'm not placing the warthe around 300 euros this guy he has more than 50 years old and you can see it's a lot of work needs to be done but most people under a spell of hope that if they do a good job they'd be able to resell it for up to 7 power. some 500 euro. work for the trust the couple have to get the vehicle ready to be transported. i believe just i don't dispute. this inside my heart i'm going to play with the old girl cards i'm going to throw 3 days i'm not going archers from my view of history. but that is precisely the issue no wonder has been there for taking the old pickup to heart which means it won't be easy to say goodbye to it when they come to sell it on. and that's why i will leave it today and they will also leave you with pictures of almost they are basing their thanksgiving festival see and it's time. to. my 1st boss i was sewing machine. where i come from women are owned by this notion for even something as simple as learning how to write a buy side both isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to advertise i'd lost my home and it took me years to understand. finally they gave up and went to buy me on my cycle and returned because sewing machines sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls than writing advice as now i want to meet those women back home who are bound by them to continue on social homes and inform them about their basic rights my name is the amount of people homes and i work that's beautiful. exactly 10 years ago the smartphone app instagram was born since then everything has changed as the world has strive to become more instagram a bill where does it leave us that's coming up on arts and culture and a spaceship on hard times blog areas once grand monument to communism finally gets a facelift. and later on it be instinctive a theory a work of finnish artist rita have a line. welcome to arts and culture since instagram launched its app 10 years ago it's not just people's photos that have improved the real world has actually changed in order to look better in pictures now businesses and even cultural institutions are built around looking good and photos well back when the very 1st instagram was downloaded the app on october 6th 2010 the idea was just to post pictures of whatever was happening that instant looking back it almost seems naive. the 1st instagram post was blurry and not much to look at its instagram co-founder kevin so my strongs dog kevin doesn't have to work anymore instagram is the world's largest photo sharing website but 1st instagram with its filters was mostly seen as just a good way to improve pics taken on your phone now there are professionals at work . restaurants know the power of the app. travel snapshots that are just too good to be true thousands of instagram is flocked to the same destinations. and museums now stage the kind of exhibitions that work well on the platform bespoke museum has only one purpose as a backdrop for selfies. today instagram has a 1000000000 active uses and the app has helped give rise to a new job profile to influence our models to be more perfect than ever before instagram queen kylie jenna is the platform's front runner with 197000000 subscribers some have made fortunes using the app even cats and dogs can be superstars this little fellow for instance has some 10000000 followers instagram is the perfect environment for advertising and companies are happy to take advantage of that the search for the perfect picture of surprise surprise the most successful of them all and that is. why i am hoping my colleague michael krueger can explain that one mike what's going on here that was a campaign and the aim of that was just to be better than kylie genest last post and they achieve this goal with more than 53000000 likes are there absolutely because jenna is this prime excel. bull for the superficial instagram world is too much of everything looks like the perfect version of a woman bots in a comic if you know what i mean and ok i think she does of the came a just wanted to print out the precious social media trick is to normal people with normal life norma shapes with an aunt in every week or so we know that there is this very superficial side of instagram with models an unattainable body is i am on there actually because a lot of my favorite artists are on their art institutions comedians so it's not all superficial absolutely not there are really some very interesting and very extraordinary people on instagram who are making fun of this superficial instagram will for example the comedian celeste barbara and she has millions of follow us with her parodies and yet you see i think of of those kind of taking other photos but this is the artist cindy sherman and cindy sherman is doing her best to look as best bet as possible with with food as in photo editing and i know that she is one of the major artists who have become even more famous in the last 10 years the instagram have been out and you get the impression actually the artists who do well on instagram there are to sort of made in a way that suited to a small screen or to the instagram world absolutely some artists develop their odd for instagram and some people go to exhibitions just to do a selfie and wouldn't go usually to museum we have the artist to yeah yeah kusama one of the most successful artist in the world right now and she is doing those dream waltz rooms where the people can go in and do their selfies and you wonder if the experience is still about the art or is it more about the vanity of the spectator well you know kusama i have to say i went to work before there were so few thank you so. which my good google will have to do this again in 10 years and see if instagram still around this will be very very interesting thanks so much now speaking of things instagram mobile if you go on instagram and you type in hash tag bush live job you'll find about 14000 pictures of what looks like a concrete flying saucer perched on a mountain actually it's a ball garion monument that was meant to show the power of the country's former communist leader it took $6000.00 workers 10 years to build but just a few years after it was completed with the fall of communism the blues legend monument fell into ruin. a futuristic flying salsa a cold war relic in bogus balkan mountains completed almost 40 years ago as a monument to socialism of the past 30 years it has fallen into total disrepair now it's being saved many bulgarians are still proud of the monument familiar to me personally it's the highest achievement of buggering architecture in general i don't want to see this at 1st sight that's why so many people come and a 1000 people or we come here if i took. the former communist party meeting place was adorned with 15 meter long francisco's depicting idealized scenes of socialist life what remains is in a desperate condition for the past 5 years a foundation has been collecting money to stop the decay work has now begun restoration experts in several countries are involved in the painstaking work. patricia makes are things like fire they've learned because you have so many things that in so many things but in conservation there is no want to do it and then we are blocking time we are trying to save as much as possible in the present state we're not integrating it's about really do. the work to preserve a part of the country's history is controversial the monument opened in long serving communist leader title should cause totalitarian state is clearly a glorification of communist ideology this has to be weighed against the immense international interest in the stunning architecture and the monuments history. that's a kind of story of pollution not only improve your area but all over. other countries . have been destroyed or to make forget the past but you can't forget the. obvious question. good monument good. many for a new. from a monument that was supposed to last forever now in 2 ephemeral sculptures out of fabric built just for a photo we're off to europe's far north where artist rita creates works that have been called the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. this forest in finland is a place of mystery solitude and inspiration for photographer rita pipeline and she turns memories into mysterious images which evoke all the emotions. when i am to the far as i recall my childhood and the feeling what it felt to be a child in the forest and somehow the forest choked me and she tries to bring that feeling into these photographs fabrics serve as her paintbrush. she looks for materials that will easily interact or blend in with the natural landscape. it is just my thing i need to follow my instinct and i have been so many and i know which caro to different landscapes but her studio in helsinki she begins work on her next project but the basis for each photograph is the same there has to be another level not only that i have placed close to the landscape the it which has to give me some kind of emotion and this emotion can be certain this fear or happiness but there has to be a deeper level in that. region part of a line and images often include secondhand clothing they awaken her curiosity about the former owner. i have always been interested in the secondhand clothes and every day history of people i find it's fascinating to try to figure what is the history behind the clothes. this photo represents a door to a secret world. and this photo taken in japan reminds her of an ancient samurais in the forest. retook have aligned and receives both private and public grants from finland to fund her work it's taken her all over europe and this 1st japan and the u.s. . back in the forest she's planning to reenact a scene from her new series called parallel. the. the ficus rebirth and whatever the feel wish is so once so for me they might be a group of. coolio me i like the idea of it much every meetings. reach a part of a line and photographs unveil her undying curiosity about other worlds and the imaginary people who visit them. and now here's some very real news from the art scene here and europe the royal opera house in london is hawking a hockney to pay the bills the portrait of the operas former director by artist david hockney is expected to bring in between $11.18 pounds at auction this month that's cash the opera says it needs to survive the pandemic. the czech republic has a new record art sale this painting called the peak or queen of spades went for 3000000 euros making it the most expensive painting ever auctioned in the country it was painted in 1026 by the gender fluid check surrealist known as 20. 1 and tate modern is launching its 1st new exhibition since lock down the show features bruce nauman the american artist whose use of neon sound and video as we speired other artists now for half a century the show took a staggering 7 weeks to set up due to coronavirus regulations. and the prado museum in madrid has opened its 1st new show since lockdown the paintings in it are spectacular but this is not a show just about beauty it's about how art and the museum itself helped enforce gender inequality in 1000 century spain the pictures contain women but none of them is in charge i'll leave you now with a look at that show called uninvited guests thanks for watching arts and culture. to. kick off. the berlin fights to embrace. the match is dramatic and munich grabbed 3 more points. shaka is defeated again thanks to their shocking 4 performance like enters the international break at the top of the table. 90 minutes on d w. what keeps us in shape what makes us see and how do we stand up for. my name is dr carson he can i talk to medical experts. watch them at work. and then discuss what you can do to improve your health. staterooms and let's all try to stay in good shape. on the job. every day counts for us and for our planet. the ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make see the screen. how can we protect habitats. we can make a difference to. the ideas for the environmental series in 2000 on t.w. . with each passing day of the continuing conflict in syria more and more children feared their future may be fading away. with every classroom damaged or destroyed and with every child witnessing the horrors of war every family fleeing the violence we can't risk losing an entire generation of children to death fear and despair. because they are the future of syria. faces datable the news live from a political crisis unfolds in kurdistan. protesters stormed the parliament and seize government buildings prompting officials to cancel sunday's election result the prime minister reportedly resigned amid the opposition claims they have seized power but also coming out donald trump stocktake it's another upbeat report on the u.s. president's health sanctions no signs of covert 9 saying this is trump downplays the threat the next day. and 3 scientists take the nobel prize in physics for their research into black holes later in the shop i'll be speaking to one of the winners german astrophysicist brian todd cancel. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program kurdistan is in an escalating political crisis the latest development is the resignation of the prime minister a supporter of the pro russian president some reports say the parliament and mediately elected his replacement from the opposition only for that man to be forced to flee the hotel where the emergency session was being held as angry protesters stormed the building all this comes amid increasing chaos and unrest in the wake of sunday's parliamentary elections these are sayings of protesters forcing their way into government buildings and just. drawing images of the production president so wooden by chan back off official results from the vote and his big gains to the production president and 2 establishment parties those results have since been announced. well joining me now is joanna littlest she's a journalist covering central asia from all nazi kazakstan joanna things in kent just on a moving very fast at the moment what can you tell us about the latest developments . well as you say that the situation is very fluid things are moving very very shostak mean that the latest developments surrounding the reported resignation of the prime minister and attempts to buy one faction to appoint a new prime minister that wasn't accepted by evidently by all those involved in the protests simply tell us how confused the situation is no one is really in charge although the president himself so don't buy john beccles that he's still in control however his whereabouts are unknown and we haven't seen anything or can be on the video address when he's from an unknown location earlier today so what we can see is that some kind of public fight for power going on as a vacuum seems to have much there's no sign yet that president john back off or is preparing to resign but that's one of the protest as key demands and some of them are out on the streets again tonight in the capital bishkek will be not as in great as great numbers as they were last night when they stormed the presidential palace in the parliament in protest at these tainted election with thoughts which has now been an all. new parliamentary elections are expected to be held is that likely to come the unrest that's unfolding. well i mean i think the point is that it's impossible to hold new parliamentary elections in the current. circumstances so while the protest is devolved it's been satisfied that the result should be an old kickstand will need a coherent government and it will need. to have some sort of government that's actually functioning and working with the set a lot of consensus in the industry able to even call new elections so i don't think we're going to see those anytime soon i think was what we're going to see going forward is about a political confrontation. that. with an uncertain outcome at the moment star that we should be looking towards those elections so much as towards who is going to take power and where they're going to take the country right what role does russia play in all of this and the russian government is a close ally of the president they've called for a legal resolution what role is the kremlin playing here. well the kremlin is adverse to what it describes as colored revolutions in any of the former soviet countries which it likes to see as its beer of influence and colored revolutions and. things that have happened in some countries which are basically in the past they were prone pro russian presidents in favor of very western precedent so the kremlin has already accused the outside forces of stoking this so there's no sign of any outside forces stepping it appears to be. discontent stoking it. so it's true that the president. is pro russian most cases leaders would find themselves who will come to power would find themselves having to occupy a pro russian position simply that of geopolitical considerations and the desire to to avoid russia into theory so far russia is not interfering but it is standing by watching very very warily because it doesn't like more liberal media is pro west and needed to come to power turmel is john lewis thanks very much for that assessment. donald trump's physicians says the us president is doing extremely well in reporting no symptoms of covert 19 the latest update on trump trump's health comes a day after his return to the white house following treatment at a military hospital continues to downplay the seriousness of his infection and the threat of the virus itself today he again compared to the seasonal flu and valid to get back on the campaign trail. it was a determined donald trump wearing a mask who emerged onto the stick of the hospital. 4 days after he shocked the world by announcing he and 1st lady maloney had tested positive for covert 19 from. after the short helicopter flight to washington crossed the white house lawn and strode up the stick case he made a point of removing his mosque offering a salute to the departing a crew and that was encourage meant for the other 7 and a half 1000000 americans who have been infected by the virus. let it dominate you don't be afraid of it you're going to beat it we have the best medical equipment we have the best medicines all developed recently and you going to beat it i went i didn't feel so good and 2 days ago i could have left 2 days ago 2 days ago felt great like better than i have in a long time i said just recently better than 20 years ago don't let it dominate don't let it take over your lives but doctors are not convinced. that the president may be in a honeymoon phase as i call it of course in $1000.00 disease in the 1st it's me me the viral thing for the inflammatory feed we look for a warning sign around 7 or 10 when people can actually do a lot worse require a lot more oxygen and you may get better or at that point may get a lot worse and i'll be around that week and those words will not be enough to deter the president in one of his many tweets on a day of high drama chum pledge to be back on the campaign trail suit. how can it get straight to our correspondent my shweta in washington my the president looks back at the white house sounding pretty upbeat but does that and the uncertainty about his health. well we've definitely still been seeing this picture from the white house that they've been pushing of strength right we've heard trump say that he's back he's feeling better than ever that he's strong throughout the ordeal the white house has been saying oh he's continued working while he was in the hospital but we have to remember that trump has access to some of the best medical experts and he has a medical team working on him all the time even though he's left the hospital there is still a full suite of medical equipment and medical staff that is in the white house with him we also really don't know whether he's still contagious or what stage the disease might be at as we've said because we've had some sort of vague statements from the white house and honestly the white house throughout the entire pandemic has not had the most reliable information about coronavirus and this message that trump is putting forward of you're going to be ok you're going to get through it don't take over too seriously i think there are about 210000 families in the united states who would disagree with him of course there are several that have also been infected what does that mean for everyday business that the white house. the white house has said they are limiting access to the president that they are taking quote every precaution that's what a white house spokesperson said earlier today but there are still a lot of people in the white house and it's not just the aides in the staff in the west wing it's the kitchen staff it's the ushers is the security guards this whole legions of people who have to be in the white house to do their job who are now also at risk if the president is in fact still contagious now in terms of the staffers we are up to i think last count was 14 or 15 people who had come forward and said they had tested positive so this one particular instance has had quite a splash zone one very good chance they could be potentially but my of the last few days have seen solidify his lead in the polls to get around what a trump campaign options right now. well if trump chooses to follow medical advice he's not going to be leaving the white house for another 4 or 5 days however we know that trump really loves his big rallies and that's what his supporters really love as well this is where he gets his energy his momentum he missed a bunch of big rallies over the weekend and now yes for weeks to make up that gap if you believe the polls that now 14 ish point gap that joe biden has pulled ahead of him now in terms of the biden side biden has been taking the opportunity to really highlight the differences between the trouble ministrations approach to the pandemic and what his approach should be highlighting his health care plan has been democrat coverage plan going really hard in the very key swing states and really just trying to paint overall picture that he's taking it much more seriously than trump is. in washington thanks very much it's nobel prize season again and today's announcement was for the winners of the physics award it's being shared by 3 scientists who carried out pioneering research into black holes hof of the one point $1000000.00 prize will go to britain's roger penrose who provided mathematical proof that black holes exist back in the 1960 s. the other half of the prize is shared by the 2 other when is american astronomer andre gets and german astrophysicist ryan hahn cancel their work proved the existence of a super massive black hole at the center of our own milky way galaxy. and nobel physics prize winner ron hubbard gensler joins us now from munich professor gainful firstly congratulations what does this prize made for you. very surprising 1st. didn't expect it and surely not today what is. this study your honor. i'm also originally. you know. on about this with my team for a long all 30 years of work in trying to do have about the measurements absolutely very well the listen for the known physicists amongst us what is a super massive black hole. well basically the. concept of a black hole is a is actually fairly straightforward just to go of what our experience on earth is if he want to jump from the earth we have to overcome gravity and we do this is rockets now if you if you shrink the diameter of the earth or you make the earth small massive gravity gets larger and there comes a point in size and mass when the gravity is so large that even. even light kandice caban an object. you would say becomes a black hole whatever is inside of the object cannot communicate anymore with the outside on the other hand if you let materials fall into the black hole on its way it can produce a lot of radiation but conversion of of energy of gravity into enter at the asian now you prove that one of these super massive black holes is at the center of our galaxy what does that mean for us here on planet earth. curiosity you see i started siri 100 years ago predicted a number of things and one. inside formula that the theory calls for us show to follow a solution in the sphere where they go description of the equations this you would now call a black hole. roy current in 1960 s. add to this the concept of a spinning black hole. and so what we've done in the galactic center is by using the gravitational pull by the central object which she was she assumed might be a black hole $4000000.00 solar masses on to the gas and a star was so ron reagan by precisely measuring their motions we could show number one the newton's theory was not adequate and that you indeed need need eyes science theory as the only plausible solution of the object is a massive black hole reinhard gensler unfortunately we've run out of time but nobel prize and a physics thank you very much for speaking today how many. you know watching day happenings out makes the business news with the state and beads and for good you can always a stamp today on a website that's dot com president get to follow us on twitter and instagram as well i'm a banker and his company thanks very much for watching. what secrets like behind those who want to discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites or. the doubling of world heritage $360.00 collapse now. this is some dope story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. his problem past. his credo no chemicals. and his training was. the students who. don't stand a chance. train in successful. the cademy starts october 15th do w. . the weaker rebounding global commerce that's the newest prediction from the world trade organization will look at how business between germany and africa has suffered during the pendency. also on the show she earned a name for herself by going after big tech in the u.s. so can margaret for starters bring the e.u. out of the digital stone age we spoke with the. globe welcome to the show and stephen beers the in berlin it's good to have you with us of the rebounding global trade will be much weaker than expected that's the latest forecast from the world trade organization experts they're now predicting near 7 percent improvement in trade next year instead of the 21 percent bounce they had projected earlier officials say pandemic efforts continue to shackle economies as they recover from spring lockdowns on the bright side the overall collapse in trade for this year wasn't as severe as expected and over to africa now with a coronavirus pandemic has triggered the continent's 1st recession in a quarter of a century as debt burdens rise and more resources are directed to health care many nations on the continent are feeling the strain now trade volumes are tumbling that's especially evidence in trade with germany. the numbers don't paint a rosy picture takes a thought for cap german exports to the country drop by a 3rd in the 1st half of the year the most pronounced example of what is a downward trend in the german african trade relationship. in the period between january and july you german exports to the constant drop by well over 18 percent compared to the same period last year african exports to germany fell even more sharply down over a quarter since 2019. investments have also fallen in the 1st half of last year of german companies among them construction materials maker klaus invested around $750000000.00 euros in sub-saharan africa. in the 1st half of this year that figure has dropped by a 5th. more on this i'm joined by daniel pals from africa desk daniel thanks for joining us this slump fall off whatever you want to call it this is because the crown of ours right i mean is that the major reason we're seeing this yes of course i mean the coronavirus had a devastating impact on business as a cross the world and of course also on the investment decisions that business leaders were making in the past and also it has distorted trade between germany and africa because buddha is a closed mind suspended flights it has disrupted trade all over the place i'm guessing that's probably much different from what we saw during the great recession where there wasn't so much a halt to business at least a movement correct. saying probably the impact of the corona crisis going to be worse than the impact during the world financial crisis that we have because now even if you want to trade you count and a business leader is saying that you have often very very you know small problems that have a huge impact for example at the moment now some german companies have a problem they have subsidiaries in africa and they need to fly in technicians and engineers for routine maintenance or they have to bring spam then they simply can't because the airlines are not flying so that shows you all of these issues the small things they're having a very very big impact a fundamental operations for every business flying in space parts fought flying and workers how good was trade between germany and africa before this pandemic well last year trade between africa and germany increased of both ways but only about 1.8 percent of germany exports went to africa that shows that the continent does not have that much significance compared to many other continents but different definitely there was much more interest in half. in germany also because the german government for some years has been pushing companies very hard saying please invest more in africa bring more private investment there i'm guessing there was more need on the african side there are at least more trade volumes going towards germany than from the other way around is it fair to say. well the thing is of course for germany it's also an interesting market because the german industry of german business is looking for new markets and africa is a very interesting a very challenging market as well but also very interesting market and of course companies are very very active there so there are lot of german companies who are also of course a. bit shy of the risks but on the other hand don't want to leave this continent to 2 chinese companies what are those risks what are the challenges that both sides face in reaching across and being hands with one another well german business is traditionally a pretty risk adverse so there is of course this issue of political stability german business leaders are perceiving that the political stability is not sufficient in their view in many countries so that's one issue there's a lot of. about corruption if you talk to german business leaders they always mention the corruption raids in some countries and now the problem is made in germany has a very very good name an africa but at the same time german products also very expensive so you have the problem to find a consumer base that is really a large enough in many countries to sell your products then you i would look at this and say alright the pentagon obviously having an effect what happens when this pandemic is over whenever that is this is a young economy young economies across africa i should say seemingly growing in towards to the middle class rebound seems most likely here when this thing is done well yes the i.m.f. and the world bank also are cautiously optimistic in not predicting that there is going to be a rebound 2021 if the pandemic does not. you know that doesn't get worse again everybody is wondering is there going to be a 2nd wave front how is that that going to be so chances are pretty good that there is going to be a rebound but in the medium term in the long term the main question is about political stability if africa wants to attract more foreign investment than you need to have political stability otherwise there's a real danger that investors are going to shy away or write down your pals from africa does that do so much for joining us. all right let's take a brief look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. the international monetary fund approved a new tranche of emergency aid to 28 developing countries among them congo djibouti and ethiopia and the funding will help cover their debt repayments for the next 6 months freeing up resources to fight the coronavirus pandemic. and we talk about the german economy german producers enjoyed a busy august as workers jumped 4.5 percent well up on the 2.6 percent forecast the increase in demand raise hopes of a robust 3rd quarter and europe's largest economy economists welcome the figures but warned of the risk posed by rising kovan 1000 infection rate. bars in paris open for a final time on monday night ahead of a forced 15 day closure because of the pandemic the closures come after the french capital posted its highest daily rise in new cases on saturday 17000 restaurants can stay open as long as they put in measures like hand sanitizer on tables. the european union's technology rules are stuck in the stone age that's the verdict of the woman behind the blocks latest effort to tame big tack you competition commissioner margaret for stock has long been a thorn in the sides of the likes of apple care but google paired alphabet and facebook now she says her proposals will lay down the law for those companies while finally creating a single market for digital services. of a stock or sat down with our reporter john l. to long for thank you so much for joining us today commissioner it's a pressure now digitalisation is of course a very important topic in europe and with your digital services do you would like to see a range of rules imposed on big tech companies like facebook and google and apple rules like making them share their data with smaller rivals what is it that you think that they're doing that is so wrong. well the last time when women are democracies sort of say things you can do things you cannot do that was back in the digital stone age that was the year 2000 and no one back then imagined what's what what would be the case of our reality today so when you then grow up and you become stronger then of course comes responsibility. and we need to say to some of these service providers you have a responsibility for the way you do business to make sure that people feel as comfortable when they are online as well as when they are all flying and that i think is very important and also for this business is the internment of is that member states they make their own legislation i think i would still prefer to have one set of rules to live by but can it keep up with the breakneck speed of tech well not so known the difference the services act will not do it alone i also think that we need to say to some of the gatekeepers there isn't there a number of things that you simply cannot do so that basically regulate from the outset to say this is a b c don't do it. and last but not least to be able to say well we don't want new gate keepers to to rice we want to make sure that also other digital markets that they stay competitive some would argue that it makes more sense to create the conditions that would give birth to the european equivalent of a facebook google or apple why don't we have the equivalent of those companies and could regulation be getting in the way i think we we failed 201020 years ago in providing a real digital single market because one of the reasons why the giants are giants today and that also goes for the chinese giants was that they had a single market they had a giant home market while they could grow the strengths to become global companies and this is why one side of things is of course for society to catch up with the digital development but the 2nd thing is to provide a real digital single market also for european businesses to grow and to provide a capital market with sort of more risk taking for instance venture capital that comes with capital but also with knowledge about how to how to scale up this company but we need to provide businesses with the market and with the capital needed we've learned to also recognise as the public how difficult it actually is to regulate very big companies and to try and prevent monopolies how would you rate your success as a commissioner. well as they say it ain't over til the fat they dissing and i have 4 more years to go so i love to pick it up when we get there thank you very much worker. or i did. that interview and finally the general international boat show has celebrated its 60th birthday as the industry takes stock of the impact of the pandemic of the event which usually takes place in september was postponed or hide. those were revamped where the highlights of this year's show is mambo to be the world's 1st 3 d. printed both using robotic machines in advance composite material but how to sellers have been mid-sized motorboats john for those who can afford them a perfect escape monstrous micro. looks nice if you can afford it that's it for me and the business team here berlin is always thanks watching. kickoff. fight. at the match is dramatic and munich grabs 3 more points. shaka is defeated again thanks to their shock the formants enters the international break at the top of the table to calm. down 60 minutes from t w. w's crime fighters are back. africa's most successful radio drama 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