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and every language but the first word pushed into. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn them simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course the calls for german made easy. to. las vegas has been hosting the world's largest consumer electronics show. many of the biggest names including intel boss and dime learned are among the four thousand exhibitors unveiling their latest innovations over one hundred eighty thousand visitors attended the trade show. there. but i think that's what they did interesting in the business start up. in the other place ok because there you have the you are. at the beginning

of the innovation. 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 these sort of out 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 your 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 on a development in france for the past three years but what's it for. so that he has been invented for being a companion robot for a family so he's a man to be

a new member of the if i mean yes for coming to us so you can see entreaties you can see is a distance you can see you we can see your face you can recognize your face you 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 o.b.d. i once used to modernize the country. you have to invest more which means public investment but would also means private investment

so preparing the conditions for a new intent more intense private investments in the sector of digitization in this sector of public transportation if. but 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 we see an increasing influence of the political party. into the individual businesses but even

u.s. and britain are becoming increasingly unpredictable trade partners p.d.i. says it's high time for a new government to take office here to start making the necessary decisions. emmanuelle macross first state visit to china began in a city with symbolic meaning she 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 they must be comings and goings. and if these roads cannot be those of a new head 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 has 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 barcelona remains. popular. spain is the number two vacation destination worldwide

after friends and a head of the united states. until recently a young be a 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 and 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. with 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 under quarantine 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 was here the share keeping just one pig poses a risk you 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's 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 metres it's all possible with this excess skeleton. engineered. 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. we're going to 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 their technological edge. established companies are turning to start ups to test 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. 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 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 days zero april twenty ninth the latest date when city taps are expected to run dry south africa's summer that's not very likely.

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