aid workers in syria have begun evacuations from the besieged rebel bastion of eastern ghouta emergency medical cases were among the first to leave according to the u.n. there are still more than three hundred fifty thousand civilians in one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country. a very unusual congress is on the way now in light sake as junkies digital activists in the chaos computer club hold that annual get together in a very. big also coming up in our series following the new silk road this week why china is so interested in building a billion dollar trade links with africa and the christmas consumption binges over again but many are returning items they want happy with as retailers start taking stock of their own. and daniel winter and this is your business update the chaos

computer club has been keeping tabs on surveillance privacy and data security issues for over thirty years its annual me tops of grown ever logic and the leipzig event is no different the latest cyber threats and data privacy issues top the agenda and that will snowden is this year's keynote speaker you might notice the lighting is a bit dim here because unusually for events like this no one wants to be in the limelight. events that live through strange backgrounds don't usually have such a climate of stein and secretive feel some areas are right off limits to t.v. cameras. it's the first time the venue is hosting a convention by europe's biggest hacker group the chaos computer club with visitors from across the world. to see and i want to learn as much as possible internets the internet security and society my head will probably explode while i'm here i hope all of. the array of c.c.t.v.

cameras normally used to track trade fair visitors has been turned off hackers on exactly keen on being watched surveillance is high on the agenda the organizers oppose the facial recognition system recently introduced to the persian train station despite it being aimed at preventing terrorist attacks. off if surveillance becomes as intense offline as it already is online and soon will be no place left where you can have any privacy as kind of. the event will also be tackling issues such as security loopholes on smart phones and computers the chaos communication congress in my position and started a. serial entrepreneur on mask has turned to twitter for inspiration he asked what new innovations users wants to see from his electric car company tesla musk committed himself to developing many of the suggestions including windscreen wipers that respond to the intensity of rainfall improved mapping software and even

a disco mode for lighting inside the vehicle timed to the beat of whatever song is played but the test the c.e.o. has bigger ideas on the agenda to fishman skee is following this for us from wall street so sophie what was the big announcement. well i guess this is just what happens when you ask you more than seventeen million a problem is how they want your company and its products to further improve well many talked about the various software app that's one twitter user asked for an electric pickup truck and even musk did say yes tesla is planning a pickup truck right after the model y. which is going to be a crossover s.u.v. musk says he's dying to build the pickup and has been thinking about that isn't actually for almost five years already but he most has big own ideas but already the company can't meet current demand so why is tesla already looking to build

a new model. well that's exactly the question that many investors and analysts are asking right now one would think that for now tesla is having enough to deal with when it comes to models that are already on the market the car company is trying to focus on ramping up production of its the mass market model three and that is crucial right now as the company posted a wider than expected loss in the third quarter of two thousand and seventeen and it produced a very few of the most free cars tesla has had been problems with the production of model three and before that it was a production of other models as well but investors appear to the chest in mighty mouse and his idea of sending the stuff almost fifty percent up year to date thank you jeff. to china now and all week we're following the new silk road its namesake was an ancient trade route which ran from china to the rest of asia and

beyond today we stop in africa where the chinese have invested sixty six billion dollars since two thousand and five that makes them the largest investors there in may this year a new rail link opened in kenya connect in the port of mombasa with the capital nairobi it will soon be extended to lake victoria the total price tag eight billion dollars even though kenya needs the infrastructure the real deal with china poses many questions. there's no effort spared to keep trains on the new nairobi mombasa link looking spick and span they're not just an infrastructure project they are important to the image of progress that kenya wants to project and that includes the polish presentation of the train stuff at morning roll call the four hundred seventy two kilometers of railway line cost around three and a half billion euros the chinese state stumped up most of the capital chinese companies laid the tracks and delivered around sixty diesel locomotives and

seventeen hundred carriages through the opening of this artery of communications in eastern africa is a great achievement of the friendship between china and kenya in the new era it is also the chrysalis zation of the win win and mutually beneficial cooperation between china and kenya. this stretch is just the beginning they are a big plans afoot for expanding kenya's rail network this line links the capital with east africa's most important port the transport of goods a lot of them chinese of course should become much cheaper the new link should more than half the travel time from around ten hours to just four passenger tickets cost around eight euros but contracts for the massive projects have also raised questions there was no transparent tender process and there's talk of corruption critics say kenya is being sold obsolete technology at an exorbitant price on credit which has to be paid back at high interest rates. you know african leaders

think china is santa claus they're not santa claus they want returns on their investment we've already had a levy on each liter of fuel sold in kenya there is a libby going towards the repayment of that loan now this is more sophisticated banking than china has been known for they have got a fantastic return and they've got security they own and run and manage the whole thing but. there have been plenty of protests against the project the route passes directly through the nairobi national park and threatens the nature reserves existence but the protests have had little effect in kenya the chinese are pressing ahead and in uganda they are building another rail connection china's grand plan is to link the two countries with rwanda burundi and south sudan carving out a new trade network and new markets for chinese goods. and speaking of investment

made in germany is still a hot label not only for consumers but also global corporations who come in to buy companies and then know how the consultancy p.w. see says eight hundred seventy such deals went through in twenty seventeen more than half of those deals were done within the e.u. . at a combined value of thirty billion euros another one hundred sixty eight deals came from north america mostly the united states. asian buyers stepped up ninety three times this past year investing over eight billion euros in german companies many of which are now under chinese management and smaller deals came in from south america as well as africa. and the outlook for german industry going into twenty eighteen is pretty rosy the german economic institute in cologne surveyed forty eight industry associations more than half of them expect their economic situation to improve dramatically only four

percent of the groupings think demand in their sector will fall the survey also showed that many of the optimistic companies are already planning to hire new workers so it looks like germany's already low unemployment rate could sink even further in the new year we've already spoken about foreign direct investment in germany but that's not the only thing powering demand here retail also has a big part to play and it's been a bumper christmas for retailers here even if not everyone is happy with their presents the christmas decorations may still be up but there is no more festive feeling here this is the time when people bring back items that weren't so well received once the wrapping paper came off. i'm just happy that i chose something for my sweetheart and he said it's too tight and it's not his color. we didn't exchange it we just made

a size correction because the recipients of the four inches too big for a large and we had to go for an extra large otherwise it was fine. that also goes for retailers who can now start to get a clearer picture of the christmas revenues german shops have enjoyed higher than expected sales so they don't mind the bothersome exchange trade so much. it's important that the goods are new and unworn and then we'll gladly exchange it it helps if the customer still has the sales receipt with the goods then it's absolutely no problem and we happily greet every customer who comes into the shop even after christmas. of course they do because even on a post christmas excursion to exchange unwanted gifts customers always seem to bring a little something extra to the till. and hard on santas heels and isn't employees at a major distribution center here in germany are going on strike they're unhappy about pay and have been for the past four years striking several times over that period

the valjean union says employees should be paid the same as retail workers and as an argues they're more of a logistics firm saying these strikes will not interrupt the livery industrial action will continue until the end of saturday. and we've run out of time business we've got plenty more online check us out on social media i'll be back again tomorrow same time same place until that keep it here on.

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