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buying dortmund shelter leipzig to get your favorite seems to go all the best goals we got all the action the job is the home of german football shared the experience every match in the mundus league every weekend here on g.w. . he's even c.e.o. sends out a bleak warning to his global workforce plans to count thousands of jobs and become even more urgent the german giant caught up in an international shakeup of the energy sector. is britain set for a golden era of trade with china because it's exhausting the european union. and high tech toddlers kids tastes in toys a changing i bet the price tag is too. i've been physical and let's do business is
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even says its plans to slash jobs around the world are inevitable. the german firm blames the poor performance of its key industrial power business on renewables the division profits in the first quarter an argument for job cuts demonstrated by it the company is investing in new gas turbine operations in the u.s. while closing plants here chief executive joe casey says claims the company's plans in german locations could be profitable are a myth he wants to switch the focus towards data storage technology but want state help for that the workers left wondering who's going to support them. as workers from the eastern german town of cyclists hundreds of kilometers to the annual shareholders meeting in munich they're determined to fight back against plans to cut their jobs. are fighting for our future and as long as we continue to do so and see a chance we're going to keep going. seaman c.e.o.
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joe kayser pointed to market trends in his defense of the cuts. the declining market for fossil fuels is not temporary it reflects the expectation of a dramatic development which we can and must address with structural measures. siemens is planning to shed a total of seven thousand jobs worldwide mainly at its power and gas division half of those cuts are said to be in germany. for the workers affected it's a bitter pill to swallow especially at a time when siemens is posting solid profit overall. its talk about this with coal power financial correspondent in frankfurt daniel from what case is saying today the job cuts are unavoidable and it becomes even more urgent sounds like the demonstrators should pack up their bags and go home. well when you look at the
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numbers of turbine gas turbine business you can understand what he purines with urgent because sales were down was twenty percent and also profit was down with even more than fifty percent so of course these are very alerting numbers and in the past siemens has been criticized a lot for not reacting very fast whenever there would be changes inside of the market lehman's employees those see all of this very different i was talking to some of them as they were also demonstrating here in front of the frankfurt stock exchange they are not understanding that now they gas turbine business in the united states get expanded and here in germany thousands have to fear that they might be losing their jobs very soon exactly that was one of the promises the case was giving trump at dinner they had to davos although that was a deal that was already in the works and done before those tax reforms came through
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which case a really praised trump and said the that was the reason why it was the best in the u.s. . yeah exactly i would also describe the relationship between german or european c.e.o.'s with donald trump rather difficult because of course whenever there is a meeting you just mentioned world economic forum in davos he is nice he's charming he's saying well i'm very open also to do business with other countries then you know some days later he's back in the united states then he is all the again about being very protective saying it's all about america we don't care that much how business is being done in other countries so the other relationship i guess on facebook you would describe it it's complicated thank you very much daniel for your analysis. another new low just five point four percent of workers were job last in germany this month officials say the labor market has entered the new year with
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a lot of momentum but how much longer for with the rise of the robots. intelligent machines such as this one can already do a lot like here a technology bosh where they play a key role in production there are kind of specialized skilled workers so to speak although someone has to keep an eye on them but nowadays it's the machines doing the dirty work. fourteen percent of workers in industry are afraid that their jobs will be replaced by automation according to the institute for the future this concern is especially prevalent among information and communication technology workers at seventeen point two percent in the finance and insurance sector that number is thirteen percent however in education and other social fields it's only seven point seven percent. that's not surprising because empathy and social skills are difficult to program it's unlikely robots will be looking after
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toddlers any time soon there are some things they simply can't do at least not yet . british prime minister to reason may has a golden era in economic ties between britain and china she made the comments during a visit to beijing focused on forging new trade arrangements once the u.k. leaves the e.u. . they signed agreements on everything from food imports to education britain's imminent departure from the e.u. has prompted prime minister to resign made to seek to strengthen ties elsewhere. in terms of the future for the relationship between the u.k. and china when we leave the european union we've today agree this joint review of trade and invest joint trade and investment review which i think is. a good step towards looking towards what our future trade relationship can be when we have that freedom outside membership of the european union being to able to organize those
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arrangements for ourselves on a bilateral bilateral basis chinese premier league on the other hand played down the impact of bracks it insisting that the relationship would not change as a result so that. but the numbers suggest otherwise the two countries are expected to sign business deals worth over nine billion pounds before the end of may is visitors improving access to the chinese markets and removing trade barriers are top of the agenda. may also stop by a university where she unveiled plans for a teacher exchange program and a campaign to promote english language learning in china. as britain i thought a new relationship with the world's second largest economy in the younger generation of both nations that will feel the biggest impact. by conservationists call it a landmark vote following china hong kong is now batting ivory sales it's one of the biggest markets in the world and has direct links to commercial scale elephant
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poaching in africa this could prove a big step in helping save the great giants. the colorful crowd of anti ivory protesters had gathered outside to welcome the decision under the new law the maximum penalty for selling ivory is ten million hong kong dollars around one million euros on top of that the offense carries ten years in prison. the world wide fund for nature welcomed the vote but said that the fight doesn't stop with the legislation just which shows becoming dark hong kong government to all sponsor the african elephants one of these needed next is to step up the enforcement to make sure that there would no longer be and the eco trade into hong kong or through hong kong and what we want. to happen is that the commercial banks. might free trade would
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spread to other asian countries the ivory market in hong kong is one of the biggest in the world despite attempts to control the illegal ivory trade there is evidence hong kong's market has direct links to large scale elephant poaching in africa wild aid a nongovernmental conservation group estimates up to thirty thousand elephants are killed illegally every year. on kong's always mean a failing a wall that's very specific me. illegal ivory deny anywhere i went as i'm on here illegally i really can always monster you know illegal trade that's what's been happening for years been happening like that case. but as one market closes traders in illegal ivory will search for a new marketplace and last november the trumpet ministration reversed a ban on the import of ivory to the united states. finally the world's biggest toy
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fair takes place in your a bug each year starting back in one thousand nine hundred fifty since then it's become a platform for the latest trends in kids' toys back then hula hoops dazzled the visit is then came claim a bill and electric train sets now high tech is taking over here the top trends for twenty one thousand including the whole loads. robots are gradually rolling their way into kids' rooms new technology is the norm for today's children and is becoming an increasingly important feature of how they play the little machines can even be programmed instead using apps it's the adult world in miniature. even traditional ways of getting a high tech make like dig is for the sand pits and even gangs way of small phone or tablet instructs each special agent what to do next to skew towards the day there are two worlds classical toys and electronic toys and they're developing side by
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side and as they do they're creating new possibilities for toys all of which is bringing exciting change here to mrs server in the gaming generation has long enjoyed bringing a virtual edge to real wild fun like teaming up to play laser tag and linking up to sixteen players with small funds and why find the bar you bought that comes a point where kids just need to get moving no matter how old school that might be. and work at any of those toys are one busting business for to. try.
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