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a sense is like the unions. you can visit with your car coming back from. mining industry would work. redefining the smart in smartphone the mobile world congress takes off in barcelona as a global sales fault some say the industry's latest products are high on gimmicks but low on innovation also on the program a chinese company now owns more of germany's dimer than anyone else in the world will tell you what the billionaire owner has in mind and afghanistan finally brings begins installing a gas pipeline from after years of setbacks on the ambitious projects. welcome to

business. pro independence protesters clashed with catalan police in barcelona on sunday as they demonstrated king's leaders visit of the world congress supporters of catalonia split from spain and criticize them for it legibly failing to pay enough attention to the region and promote political dialogue. inside the convention center there were different concerns at the end of twenty eight team global smartphone sales declined the firm. ever on record now more than ever the question in barcelona seems to be how customers. samsung is focusing on cameras its new galaxy s nine and the slightly larger s nine plus might not look a whole lot different from their previous sensors but the pictures they take in low light are less grainy. and there's a new super slow motion feature it takes nine hundred sixty images per second and

is able to capture even the fastest moving objects samsung says that could even attract professional photographers but it at mit's most of the improvements are under the hood. is it is a huge amount of innovation that you do not see on this device because we've we've kept the best design of a phone out there that we introduced last year that we've designed around that best looking phones and then there are the animated mode g.'s that's something apple already introduced on its i phone ten users can create three dimensional avatars that match their clothing in facial expressions the new galaxy is cheaper than the i phone ten still they cost around eight hundred fifty and nine hundred fifty euros when they go on sale in europe next month. samsung has this show to itself a fast growing chinese rival huawei won't be unveiling any phones in barcelona just tablets and laptops but even without having to share the spotlight the s.

nine is refinements might not be enough to wow consumers after a year of flat smartphone sales. our correspondent. congress paul who tried out samsung's picture to moji feature how did that work out . hey christophe yeah let me show you right here the excitement when you see well not so much to be honest actually one wonders if features like you are going to be enough in the market that seems to reach set aeration. no they're not going to be that and actually i'm pretty annoyed at major smartphone manufacturers like some sun they're trying to sell us you know small evolution incremental evolution as the big revolution the theme was the camera reimagine for samsung and that just didn't happen i wish they'd just be honest and say we've got

a new phone same design and it's pretty good all right so what do samsung's competitor seven store. there's a couple of different take next samsung and some others are going for camera just brought out a phone that has two displays and then there's companies like nokia now owned by h m d who is going retro once again with this banana phone all right but if cameras aren't new hot thing and retro i suspect remains a nice there whereas the real innovation. retro is actually it is doing pretty well last year nokia came out with a thirty three ten and that was a big sales hit but of course that's not innovation the true innovation happens sort of behind the scenes of the phone itself it will be in networks five g.

is coming up and will allow much more speed and in artificial intelligence if that comes out with actually useful features then that might drive sales again paul christo brits in barcelona the. congress thank you so much. the german government says it will scrutinize a decision by chinese automotive company genie to buy a nine point seven percent stake in the move announced at the end of last week makes gili the biggest shareholder of the german carmaker here in germany chinese investments in industrial companies are often viewed with suspicion here's more on new major shareholder. it's a rags to riches tale the son of a rice farmer genies found early shoe food is china's tenth richest man according to forbes magazine the fifty four year old started out with a refrigerator parts factory in the one nine hundred eighty s. back then though the sector was strictly state run inevitably also richie's shut

lease factory down but by then lee had already made a small fortune and so he simply switched industries producing first motor bikes and then cars ansley himself said all you needed for a car were four wheels and two sofas an insight that for several years reflected the quality of his vehicles but just two decades later chile was selling around one point two million cars a year in china making it the nation's knowledge is independent car maker in two thousand and ten bought up struggling automaker volvo from ford he ordered money into the swedish plants and then with great success brought a volvo on to the chinese market since then lee hsu fu has held a central position among international carmakers and now he's invested in dima acquiring just under ten percent of the luxury car company the state of q wait until now the largest shareholder has been bumped into position to with six point

eight percent followed by rent. the rest is divided up among small investors. leases he's not reducing his commitment to volvo he says buying the stake in diamond allows him to focus on the technologies of the twenty first century electro made bullet and driverless cars huge challenges that no manufacturer can tackle alone. especially given the invaders from outside describes google and other companies encroaching on the auto industry. with g.e. plans to benefit from german technological know how it says it's overriding aim is to get to become companies to join forces in an effort to stand up to the coming onslaught from silicon valley. now earlier today juli shares are also six and a half percent in hong kong for more ingenious plans for germany and why i see all

who is visiting germany at this moment is our correspondent daniel. while the man from china who is considered here by many investors as the new mr ford from china he really needs to get a truss on the one hand from the employees at the headquarter of time now that's why is there we are also hearing that he will be meeting with top officials from the german government as well because yes investors from china there is always this question how reliable they are dacha bank in the past have problems for example with a also their biggest shareholder from china so yeah their homework mostly is to gain trust here in germany and you called in frankfurt thank you. in persisting energy deficits in south asia that's the idea behind a new pipeline delivering natural gas from turkmenistan into afghanistan pakistan

and india the project has been planned for more than twenty years but conflict and political instability in the region proved hurdles to development now construction has started in the afghan section and even the islamist taliban has signaled support. much is riding on the transit ghana's than pipeline natural gas from turkmenistan is supposed to help alleviate afghanistan's chronic energy shortage and provide a measure of economic stability for the conflict ridden country at the groundbreaking ceremony afghan president struck a hopeful tone. deaf in my get mad at them and this program will result in the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars such the bush this program will bring us electricity. gas bring us jobs this program will bring us life by a net cost that met at carter. for its part turkmenistan is hoping new customers

for its gas would help it reduce its dependency on its meaning buyer china state company turkmen gas will operate the one thousand eight hundred kilometer pipeline it's meant to run from gallatin as the world's second biggest gas field to puzzle caught near the border with pakistan and northern india carrying thirty three billion cubic meters of natural gas a year but the pipeline is also meant to run within taliban controlled areas so far they promise not to disrupt the project if all does go according to plan the pipeline is to be completed in two years. the company all by disgraced phil mogul harvey weinstein has declared insolvency are we are viewed weinstein founded the company with his brother and two thousand and five than last fall reports of weinstein's alleged harassment of women stars hit the headlines and now dozens of other women have come forth with similar stores business partners pulled out of the company as the scandal group weinstein maintains his innocence the case has brought

the issue of sexual harassment to a wide range of just trees and politics. and that wraps up your business update for me. or simply check out our social media where you can also find the latest of our coverage of the more violent world congress in barcelona on crystal thanks for watching i'll be back. in forty five minutes from now here's a look at how financial markets are trading at this hour. to .

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