there for women with the lifting of the football ban following a similar one and driving it looks like saudi women are on route to a more liberal era and just a reminder now the top story we're following for you german chancellor angela merkel has said she hopes a new government will be in place by easter was also a major breakthrough in exploratory talks between have conservatives on the social democrats challenge them without a government since the elections in september. more news coming up at the top of the hour see you then.

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but i think that's what it is interesting it is a start up. in the other place ok because there you of the you are the who are at the beginning of the you know vacation. here in eureka park there are some eight hundred startups from around the world and insiders here are looking for the next great innovation. i'm here to see the sort of which of these companies i think really have the necessary. second set of business to go along with like a school attack because it doesn't matter what you're making if you don't have the business skills or the business people needed to be successful then they're going to flop. but which new products could make it to market there are so many here like underwear that protects men from cell phone radiation. or three d. holograms which are created using l e d fans one of the highlights is

a little robot named party you can learn a bit of programming thanks to my application but it's been under development in france for the past three years but what's it for. so that he has been invented for being a companion robots for a family so he's saying to be a new member of the if i mean yes for cameras so he can see entreaties you can see is a distance he can see you we can see your face you can recognize your face can recognize your voice you can recognize your body shape so he knows who you are exactly in the family but he will be available later this year over a thousand bodies have already been preordered the price will be around thirteen hundred euros. feel what a book's a full and exports of booming last year the german economy grew two point two percent the strongest expansion in six years. the next government can look forward

to rising tax revenues. so there's plenty of money. which the federation of german industries or b d i once used to modernize the country. we have to invest more which means public investment but also means private investment so preparing the conditions for new intent more intense private investments in the sector of digitization in the sector of public transportation. but also in different sectors starting from schools and universities he set or the government will have to tackle some other problems as well the global economy is laden with risks the beady eye is especially concerned about the threat of trade barriers and increasing interventionism german companies cite china's behavior in particular. china is a very important market for our companies especially for the industrial part of our

economy. on the other hand we see that china has a very strict strategic agenda there and reads see an increasing influence off the political party. into the individual businesses but even the u.s. and britain are becoming increasingly and predictable trade partners the p.d.i. says it's high time for a new government to take office here to start making the necessary decisions. emmanuelle mccraw first state visit to china began in a city with symbolic meaning shia on the starting point of the ancient silk road that connected china and europe. beijing's been wanting to reconnect that trade route for years but the response has been lukewarm until now. mccrone said it was

time for europe to get behind the trillion dollar project. i think that the new silk road initiative can bring our interests into alignment those of france and europe if we give ourselves the means to work together. the plan will see gleaming new road and rail links through central asia drastically cutting shipping times but it's raise concerns of chinese expansionism markets flooded with ever cheaper chinese imports. the french president said the new trade route had to benefit both sides. he says. these roads cannot be one way there must be comings and goings. and if these roads cannot be those of a new had germany that would transform the countries they cross into vassals. there's not much chance these chinese soldiers will be marching into europe but

emanuel mccrone will still have to allay fears the silk road won't become a conveyor belt for chinese mass production. french prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation of u.s. tech giant apple over alleged deception and planned obsolescence of its products under french law the company could face a fine of up to five percent of its annual sales apple admits to slowing down its phones to control power spikes and lengthen the overall life of the gadgets. alabama japanese carmakers toyota and mazda are building a new factory in the u.s. state of alabama for one point six billion dollars. the facility will employ some four thousand people production is slated to begin in two thousand and twenty one with three hundred thousand vehicles rolling off the assembly line

every year. spain continues to be a hot spot for tourists last year the land of bullfights and flamenco reported a record eighty two million visitors that's a nine percent jump from the previous year. despite the catalan political crisis bus alona remains popular. spain is the number two vacation destination worldwide after friends and a head of the united states. until recently a young p.r. nazi had more than one hundred pigs on his farm now they're all dead some dead wild boar were found nearby it turns out they were infected with african swine fever. in response authorities ordered that all farm pigs in a radius of fifty kilometers be called. they came and made a list instead of weighing the pigs they made

a rough estimate of their weight in this at all of them had to be killed and disposed of. an insurance policy for animal diseases paid only a fraction of the pigs value to the b.r. not skis six months later they still aren't allowed to buy a herd. we are too young to retire now we just take each day as it comes we received money from our insurance but it was almost nothing. the entire region in eastern poland near the village of rudnicki has been on their corn teen for months due to african swine fever and is not in sight many farmers here had large herds no one here thinks that the sector can ever recover from this blow the residents of this village are even afraid to keep a pig for their own needs something that used to be commonplace here. it

must be a pushchair keeping just one pig poses a risk that can infect large groups of pigs even three hundred. african swine fever is being spread primarily by wild boar which have been infected with the virus the disease is always deadly for the animals there is no medicine to fight the illness the vista low river forms a natural barrier to the spread of the disease but last month infected poor were found on the west side of the river now there's a danger that the virus could spread to germany. these shaky steps are actually a miracle this wheelchair bound person can now walk several hundred meters it's all possible with this excess skeleton. engineer chang one who developed the walking robot first of the i t r i research institute and now at his own firm free by onyx his friend just testing the device he's one of some seventy million people confined

to a wheelchair worldwide. think they can. help. taiwan is one of the most high tech places on earth companies like h t c account for around a fifth of the country's g.d.p. by producing computers laptops and smartphones for the entire world but it is cheap the chinese rivals breathing down their necks companies in taiwan need to keep the technological edge established companies are turning to start ups to tap new markets and that opens up huge opportunities for a new generation of entrepreneurs in taiwan. cape town has the ocean at its doorstep but amid the worst drought in centuries the city faces a severe shortage of fresh water and the drought is threatening the survival of

many area businesses. an estimated fifty thousand jobs in the western cape region could be lost mainly agricultural workers but everyone from car wash attendants to gardeners and hotel cleaning staff could face unemployment water rationing is affecting everyone even the five million tourists who arrive annually have been asked to keep showers to two minutes and under current restrictions water can no longer be used in gardens in march twenty seventh the marriage declared the city a disaster area reminders are everywhere about the importance of conserving water he. still want water to drink they still want to make you a cup of tea or cup of coffee i think we need to encourage our neighbors encourage off friends and family not to misuse water city officials keep a close eye on supplies they look for leaks and other sources of waste households must limit consumption or face heavy fines agricultural and commercial use is also

restricted authorities are preparing for daisy. april twenty ninth the latest date when city taps are expected to run dry and that event there will be water points station across the city which will distribute twenty five liters per person per day rain would help but in the heat of south africa's summer that's not very likely. wait this is food. not just any. sweet surprises me not a cost go ok he's on. who takes making. a new dimension.

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