A popular catch phrase coined by a former bill and mayor but this tongue in cheek comment cant gloss over the fact that even in the capital of wealthy germany the gap between the haves and have nots keeps growing if you dont believe me join us on a bus ride to learn more about the impact of gentrification and the way wealth is distributed in the city. The number twenty nine bus makes forty six stops along the sixteen kilometer route it takes through berlin wending its way through neighborhoods that range from ethnically mixed and hip to poor to affluent. So your top number one narcan here this is where all the young people want to live myself included but rents are going up here and higher earners are pricing out the original population of listed but its not fair as a student or a vocational trainee you dont have a chance of finding an Affordable Apartment out of it. To be honest i feel that the older generation is discriminated against and im not at all optimistic that my situation will change. That makes me feel slightly guilty on my income which is only average i probably could afford an apartment here does that make me part of the problem. People like me are changing this neighborhood. These days about a fifth of the local population lives from Welfare Benefits immigrants make up forty five percent of the population. But the neighborhood is becoming more wealthy and less diverse. So even when margaret lee when. To do people can change the character of a neighborhood but the notorious top one percent cant afford anything and their wealth just keeps growing twenty seventeen was a record year for the super rich according to Forbes Magazine the worlds billionaires accumulated a total net worth of seven point six seven trillion u. S. Dollars almost double germanys annual g. D. P. Of the richest man on earth right now is amazon found jeff bezos his wealth increased by six billion u. S. Dollars in just the first few days of this year how do the rich do it we ask some people who should know. Last thursday by a card they dont wait for others to give them something on the bus they get busy themselves thats why the rich keep getting richer didnt even. If you believe the statistics shown on this socalled wealth clock private wealth is increasing by one billion euros a day net in germany alone that sounds a bit abstract even more abstract than this time piece the purpose of which is less to tell the time than to let the wearer flash their wealth. But is it really true that the rich are getting richer its not something rich people like to talk about but someone who manages their wealth ought to know i find an asset manager in the heart of berlin. I figure the joke a but are the rich getting richer this is yes in so far as wealthy people have access to better Asset Management solutions and services and get more professional advice than most offices. That lays the foundation for building up wealth on the assets side of the Balance Sheet doing side to take you so hard for moves off points of the. Building up wealth so thats what you call it when the rich get richer but the suitcase full of money is outdated one of these days looks different trying to visiting any major car show luxury cars are getting faster more like your yes and ever more expensive and yet their sales are increasing worldwide you could buy one or two million euro which great news for a car dealers as conspicuous spending has been frowned upon but its very resilient new markets ripening up and people seem to have the afterthoughts keep buying to go more expensive cars. So on the Positive Side there are at least seem to be more and more rich people getting richer how do researchers explain this huge increase in the personal wealth of an ever growing. Elite well just there has been a series of political decisions over recent decades regarding taxation and huge benefits for the wealthy. I think thats the main factor and were not just talking about individual income tax but also a Corporation Tax that puts far less of a burden on companies in my eyes and in most industrialized countries thats led to a significant increase of income and wealth at the very top going to fifteen ist. The makers of luxury goods have to come up with ever wacky your idea is to get their hands on customers dollars. But what goes on in the heads of the super rich dont they eventually lose their appetite for status symbols and at what stage can they even be classed as rich ice when. Youre rich when you can finance your lifestyle and expenditure through income from your assets even after taxes fees and inflationary adjustments for income then youre genuinely rich not in france much on this one because. So how much do you really need to finance your lifestyle ten thousand a month perhaps or maybe a million. Well i get by with a little bit less some people who build up wealth and they do everything to make sure it keeps getting bigger others inherit wealth and feel responsible for their fellow human beings like easy bosch the grand daughter of the industrialist but bush we caught up with her in hamburg to find out more about her need to give and share. I watched hamburg is home to lots of rich people to day some forty thousand residents have assets of more than one million euros. While most of them are reticent about their money i meet a woman willing to talk about it is a bush grandchild of the founder of engineering giant bush was born into wealth what does have fourteen mean to her. Not to do well to Second Nature to me but its only one aspect of who i am as give a gift when money does become an issue you have to find ways of dealing with it this is all you can be challenging and painful in terms of the effect it has on relationships restocked science be a didnt invent c. When theyre not talking about it doesnt make it easier in fact it makes it more complicated and. Beer companies. Bush decided to not just talk about it but also to put her inheritance to good use through charitable donations. From the course of. Today shes donated tens of millions of euros. The staff and have foundations inspect projects and initiatives worldwide. And. They cannot. Be called why has to wealth often so guarded why is so few rich people willing to talk openly about their money to mention the hoped often over bush question but if its signed it seems quite typical in german speaking countries to keep a low profile about it for some theres the fear of being taken advantage of or the fear that it could disrupt your life in that its the same day as envy a fact or night oh yeah envy night thats the typical conversation stopper theyre just envious but thats such an oversimplification theres usually a reason for that and be sure these great to get the red carpet treatment. Option than mud in or that another person might not even be able to afford an apartment no matter how hard he tries or she tries women especially. Kind of fall. He come on the idea with all the poverty in hardship in the world how do you decide where to give your money. This is for feed an event a lifelong question for many people im happy that in my life ive been able to define a specific area to specialize in. Boy Sports Illustrated my focus is the rights of women and girls as well as minorities persecuted for their Sexual Orientation sex and that is the lesbian gay bisexual transom intercommunity. In dimension fierceness wouldnt it be better to give money to the state at that way the decisions can be made and funds can be distributed through a democratic process instead of by one person. In the puzzle i agree with you completely what were dealing with here is a series of negative Development Individuals are becoming richer and richer. Yeah i thought it was then why dont you give your money to the state and instead i do give to the state i do both i dont waste time trying to avoid paying taxes she could set to receive the german donors award how do you plan to use it how to use it to finish writing a book in english in german ive been planning to write it for a long time its called donating with confidence that i would as an infallible its a kind of call for other wealthy people to follow your lead stick thats part of it. Consider the possibility gemini is home to more than a million millionaires if they all donated even a small portion of their assets it would amount to a sizable sum and that could help make the world a better place. When its time to catch the number twenty nine bus again that takes us through various districts of berlin from working class to posh neighborhoods the bus route confronts you with the citys very social fabric and sometimes this can be quite intimidating. The number twenty nine bus is heading northwest. Is when you have got often quite spec me a cop us a tour to be honest its not my favorite area especially off the dog i feel a bit nervous. In fact the tour used to be an even rougher neighborhood but its still one of berlins crime hotspots many people who live here are socially disadvantaged. As the neighborhood has one of the biggest immigrant communities in the city and one third of the population lives from benefits people like. Dozens i want to make of the gap between rich and poor good a skype session theres always been a gap between rich and poor. It depends how people got rich right. But there isnt so much of a middle class anymore. Literal gap has grown theres a lot of hatred and anger there are two slow cookers the torah is one extreme now the number twenty nine is off to another extreme. But before we get to there we take a detour from melting pot to quads back with its gap between rich and poor to the global picture the most widely used measure of a countrys wealth inequality is the gini index its a number that varies between zero representing income inequality and one hundred percent indicating total inequality and the most recent figures show ukraine slovenia and norway to be the most equal nations in terms of Income Distribution and they are among the countries that are white on this map while haiti in the media and south africa in dark red are the most equal the gini index doesnt tell you though all that much about a countrys economy bangladesh has actually brought its gini index close to that of germany by reducing its most extreme poverty still it remains a low wage country with many social problems but things are changing in the capital dhaka german entrepreneur feet of debt discovered a start up which could signal a turning point for the working environment in bangladesh. The idea behind start up sheba x. Y. Z. Isnt new but its the first time its being put into practice here in bangladesh she wakes so is it is this obvious market this white people people can buy services for the day the unions. We are now one of them for services so what it was obvious is you need to just go to our side ad and such and he did get. This Service Platform hooks up plumbers carpenters or beauticians in dhaka with customers but thats not all. Still we teased him into the basically all of this shit about the videos then the basic behavior of what they need to maintain when this are mainly they spy thing to us they got someone you know into solving we did you know professionally and we showed them how to use decide we see using that as a basic thing from a very good girl who you could really bring a basic education should be able to run in the future that we were helping to build their business so we wanted them to be successful on the planet. According to our imtiaz halim trades peoples work in bangladesh hasnt changed in decades. Most people are self employed and just managed to make ends meet. Up so now theyve had little opportunity to improve the situation. We believe that it is simple that. Under his skin and. This secret his family is not. The whole game. He takes us to a small car workshop to show what these changes might look like. Thats immediate and so here on this got us just i know him for. Us when we started the business i found him to you know fixing one cut a day maximum. And by himself and now he has a decisis. So he runs a small business. Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and it has a rapidly growing population. For many people here its a daily struggle for survival. That oh my god. I cannot let it. Go to me i cannot look up. What i did and you know. The difficult conditions mean everyone has to pitch in. Even the children. In bangladesh there are some three point five million child laborers. Copied has been working in the shoe factory since he was ten years old. Would you isolate back their. Homes out of my family faces huge paunch it i work to ease the pressure on them when i get my salary here i see. Money to my mother and have village. For many children isnt an option but how be this one of the lucky ones. Lashins have been organized by a Child Protection agency. And have an uphill fight to help the children. That are not up to fifty. Strong if you. Want from my factory but weve got many parents and the fact that you want to have. More leave. Your children can get you to do just one. Second go to the top so they actually did this the and this is how do you want. The Bangladesh Government seems to be focused on investment to encourage change and give a much needed boost to a lagging economy for example investment in startups as a country we have started later but we want to actually develop the whole system all of the business entrepreneur the company like share bob this kind of new thinking you see that type of thinking or like your a b. And b. Day before thinking it is already accepted by the whole word now we need local Homegrown Solutions just to introduce the team. Halim gave up a well paid job to start the Company Maybe he says itll take a few years yet before shiba x. Y. Z. Turns a profit everything we have still he has no doubts about his decision. He says his work on the platform is already bearing fruit. So we need more entrepreneurs to create go for others yes thats right so our our target is to create then told them on the grass next week in once the best of the two go so then calls an entrepreneur who created. One hundred q one you know how did the resources for thats thats a big step so thats the biggest. Beyond mine platform is set to expand into a number of other Asian Countries after all its not just in bangladesh that workers need new opportunities. Its david versus goliath a peruvian fama takes on german utility giant r. W. Evil causing Global Warming that he says threatens his livelihood a german court will hear the case it could set a president with wide ranging consequences for industry and the climate. So lucy arnaud you youre from peru is witnessing the effects of Climate Change fast time and the glaciers in the andes are retreating ice in the mountains is melting rapidly and water levels are rising in the glacial lakes. Stephanie spokesman for German Energy company r w a it generates electricity and coal fired power plants and is one of europes top carbon emitters what are these two men have to do with one another Carbon Emissions from german coal fired power stations contributing to global Climate Change the effects of felt in peru more than ten thousand kilometers away. By farmers like you yet. He and his family fear their home will be flooded by melted ice from the swollen glacial lakes. Theyve invested in flood defenses but feel it some fat that they have to cover the costs themselves. You know you get a. Bonus we are aware of climate justice. And min to the. These companies are polluting the world. The glisten business is there no its not fair that we should be the ones to bear the brunt of that. Most im going to remember who has the most. He has the support of environmentalists from the German Foundation for sustainability theyve also given him financial help. The german courts recently agreed to hear the peruvian pharmacy case against. The semantic damage and. Heres what. One has to say. As. An individual body cannot be made liable for such a complex phenomena feeling feeling one to which hundreds thousands millions of factors have been contributing for many many years of these of eyes of a disney side and. It would be impossible to demonstrate that the Carbon Emissions generated by a company such as our w e u are contributing to the situation on the other side of the world into a room that you young is referring to by. The. Hand we thought the clocked. The german court will hear arguments. On says that if the energy giant has to pay damages it will have to just stick consequences. Not just for the company but the private individuals as well. And or. The door ultimately were the plaintiffs to win it would mean anyone can make a case against anyone you want if it was. Everyone can be held responsible for Carbon Emissions. And on the frequent flyers tourists. Other Industrial Companies other Energy Providers freight companies. You get off one day and. One of them could be liable for Carbon Emissions. For their contribution to Climate Change however minor. Come a german court rule on International Climate policy the case could set an important precedent according to environmental activists who say climate agreements have little actual effect on the ground is political news. This is not just a local problem. Its an issue with global relevance. If we dont make our protests heard we will die. So lucianne know you yet has managed to make his protests heard all over the world. Well back here in berlin its time to finish our bus trip through the citys neighborhoods and now weve reached a wealthy part of town lets find out what people there have to say about social justice. Now were heading west berlin is becoming noticeably more affluent the last station is was nic. This is a part of berlin i dont really know very well. You know here were finally inch off the number twenty nine bus route is a pretty long one or this neighborhood looks much wealthier than the other ones i stopped and. People here have twice as much money on average as you know karen and they are among the lowest numb