this is d.w. news live from berlin china throws a punch in an increasingly bitter trades backed beijing imposes duties on three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports including pork and fruit in response to president trump's punitive tariffs also coming up egypt's president al sisi returns to power in a landslide election victory but low voter turnout and

a lack of any real opposition has cast a doubt over the credibility of the balance of. performing for peace some of south korea's best known bands play a rare concert in pyongyang the north korean leader kim jong un tells state media he was deeply moved by the experience. in syria rebel fighters reportedly agreed to a deal to give up a cheese stronghold near damascus and the plight of civilians trapped there remains unclear. and what goes up must come down and out of control chinese face station crashes to earth we'll tell you where it landed and how they lost control of the craft in the first place. i'm sorry so much going to good to have you with us china has tariffs on a whole range of u.s. imports in an escalating spat with washington over. grade beijing will now levy

charges of up to twenty five percent on certain u.s. imports including pork and wine the move comes after the trumpet ministration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from china analysts say could be just the start with washington set to unveil more tariffs later this week. these american avocados are destined for the chinese market but they might not sell so well anymore now that china has imposed tariffs on fruit eat wild steel pipes and scores of other imports from the usa the rates of fifteen percent on one hundred and twenty items and twenty five percent on eight others. the chinese government says that people support its move though some in china regret the ensuing rise in prices. it's definitely going to have an impact many fruits that kids love only grow in foreign countries we don't have them in china that is a direct impact. it's absolutely right to impose tariffs because i've seen the news

about the us scrapping trade deals with us it's right to fight back. the new tariff such china's initial response to the u.s. move to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports the u.s. is also threatening to impose further terrace on sixty billion dollars worth of other chinese imports a year over what it terms the theft of intellectual property china by contrast is raising tabs on about three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports. beijing says it will never submit if the u.s. launches a trade war and says that tariff increases are in line with world trade organization rules to protect its interests still the scale of china's new tariffs is modest the move looks more like a warning shot than a major counterattack the u.s. is china's largest single market a full blown trade war is the last thing china would want. all the threat of a trade war means worrying times for businesses on both sides of this trade dispute

banner also on both sides of the atlantic exactly one huge criticism a growing criticism of trump's trade policy among job of business leaders the president of the federation of german industries is lashed out against the u.s. direction calling it an attempt by the troubled ministrations to weaken the world. trade organization as for market reaction stocks in china kicked off the new week with losses a bit lingering worries of a full blown trade war with america while here in europe investors have a day longer to digest the latest developments stock markets here closed today for the easter monday holiday of a two hour asia correspondent andrea hang who is based in singapore and ray let's crunch the numbers first of all beijing's hitting back but just how hot well not very hot if you look at the numbers and the big picture three billion dollars of u.s. imports is in and white compared to the total import annual import number at one

hundred fifty billion in u.s. imports because of it is a big difference so china is obviously testing the waters but technically a trade war has broken out even if they're moving little by little both parties when when could things really get ugly well then you may not have to wait too long for that to happen trump has already announced plans to take china to tell us why imposing tariffs on its takes a particularly the chinese take products and these are with some thirty to sixty billion dollars now on the other side of the battlefield china has also declared war on the us i could cultural say with plans to it's like tariffs on agriculture that is stemming from us sort of trump leaning states in the u.s. now who's right and who's wrong in this dispute because i know a lot of business people have accused china of stealing technology or at least buying it and copying it which some would say is stealing anyway but as far as

these tariffs go china does have a right to hit back at trump's tariffs isn't that the case. well in the first place trump tariff policy so-called is whitely disputed as the one who will end all solution for its trade deficit which is your ending that no you only wipe but on the other hand yes china is white regularly accused of ip infringement intellectual property infringement it's a tricky pond to weed into been because a lot of merit a lot of american brand tech products. outsourced to all manufactured in china itself so the actually really do need each other and in this case i should point out trying to reason going by the rules book it's doing everything it should according to the w t o but just tell me about these u.s. food import duty hike of of beijing's it's going to hit american farmers including kong growers who produce ethanol with some chinese refineries saying it now makes

no sense to import that if the dollar but rather by a local because of the higher import tariffs absolutely know that that price difference is gone there's literally no cost virtually no cost savings on china's part so it's a good opportunity for china to grow its domestic market ethanol specifically in this case they were talking about so with that price difference gone and eliminate it that in mine is now going to be transferred to the local chinese market finally what about financial market reaction we've always got to look out for this one when it comes to china stories we're talking about was top two economies going head head to. indeed it's a real big battlefield out there being fought right now needless to say everyone is nervous we've seen a lot of swings in the market particularly in asia and the particular markets that are going to be worried markets such as singapore where we are very leaning towards

the u.s. benchmark so until the pendulum stops or everyone just seems to get settle with the pendulum swing the unsettling feeling off the pendulum swings it is still very much that needs to be looked out for at this point exactly in the swings could get bigger as we go by on this story thank you very much for your analysis from singapore and breaking the force. of business for you later in the hour first back to simians breaking news it's very ben thanks very much well the breaking news reports coming in that south african anti-apartheid campaigner winnie mandela has died at the age of eighty one the news was announced by her personal assistant when mandela was the former wife of former president and anti-apartheid icon nelson mandela more of that story for us the details coming to us for now though we're going to move on to egypt or president of

delphi to r.c.c. has won a second term in office egypt's election authority says got just over ninety seven percent of the votes in last week's ballot but turnout was lower at around forty one percent than in the previous presidential election critics also argue that he had just one opponent a token candidate to give the election the appearance of a genuine contest opposition groups of called for a boycott of the vote. and let's bring in correspondent ruth michelson who is standing by in cairo hi ruth good to see you the results have been announced in the last hour was there anything unexpected there. i'm not sure you can say that there was anything unexpected to give than that as you pointed out it was only one competitor c.c.c. on the ballot and he was known to have been campaigning for the president and his party endorsed him right up until he declared his intention to run so few surprises that c.c. managed ninety seven point not

a percent of the vote so pretty much what he got in twenty four to. his competitor managed just under three percent of the vote turnout was forty one point five percent so this is the only figure that gives us some indication that. people are slightly less happy with c.c. than they were in twenty forty four percent in turnout down from four years ago that we also have no way of knowing how valid these numbers really are the opposition called for a boycott ahead of the spot saying it was essentially a charade but international observers who are in the country said that today that the voting rather went on as a free and fair election is that a fair assessment. i mean it's a fair assessment if you are only observing the election that took place over the three days last week which is what gives. here to do but there were also international observers that said look we were only in town for the vote we weren't

here for the selection of candidates and things like that which is a was the key part of this election five candidates that would have presented some opposition to c.c.'s who were prevented from getting on the ballot two of them are still to change one of their running mates is still contained there are at least another two candidates who said that they dropped out due to intimidation of their support. and so that's not necessarily a fair and democratic environment for an election to be held so since he has now been reelected for another term what does this mean for egypt going forward. more precisely two things slightly to push ahead with some unpopular economic reforms this is coming off the back of a twelve billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund and egypt received twenty six. the other thing is that there are. widespread suggestions

that sisi will push to. president the life essentially in the mold of latin and. he will move to amend the constitution and therefore move presidential term limits and presidential. correspondent ruth michelson reporting for us from cairo for us thank you for that update that north korean leader kim jong un says his heart swelled after attending a rare concert n.p.r. news and by musicians from south korea it is the first such performance in more than a decade and some say a sign of improving ties between the two countries it also coincided with the start of annual military drills between the u.s. and south korea. south korea's k. pop girl bands red velvet and girls' generation among others played the kind of music that has been taboo in the north. that's north korean leader kim jong un was

in the audience in the capital pyongyang and feeling the groove. over one hundred thais korean musical artists came to perform in north korea for the first time in thirteen years. things got really interesting at a theater in pyongyang when size korean performers sang about three unification. i hope that we can look at each other and feel deeply in our hearts that we are one . meanwhile a south korean taekwondo team gave its first performance in pyongyang since two thousand and two. on the political stage south korea's leader in is scheduled to meet with his north korean counterparts on april twenty seventh to discuss the north's possible denuclearization us president donald trump is also

planning to meet in the near future with the north's kim jong un. has also scaled back exercises between the u.s. and the south korean military. sunday's concert was held under the title spring is coming but to many koreans both in the size of the north hope this means peace is on its way. now to some other stories making headlines around the world russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has said that russia is not responsible for any escalation in the dispute over the poisoning of a former spy in england has accused britain and the u.s. of playing children's games russia's denied responsibility for last month's attack on circus cripple and his daughter yulia ethiopia's parliament has sworn in as the country's new prime minister ahmed issa first ethnic almost to be given the post by the ruling coalition is expected to implement democratic reforms aimed at

defusing tensions with ethnic almost following years of anti-government protests by the marginalized group. militants from the boko haram islamist group have killed at least eighteen people after they have tacked a military base in two villages near the night. increased security restrictions are in place in indian controlled kashmir a day after twenty people died in clashes between militants and security forces on sunday four civilians were gunned down by troops while protesting anti militancy operations that had killed sixteen troops and rebels earlier in the day reports are coming in from syria that rebel fighters have agreed to leave their last stronghold in eastern guta progress and forces say they have reached a deal with the largest rebel army of islam to pull out of the territory but some members of the group deny their surrender is imminent fighters from another smaller

rebel group however are leaving hundreds of people have been killed in fighting in eastern guta in recent weeks the road to eastern ghouta passes by ruined buildings and abandoned lifeless villages. on the roadside corpses rebels that nobody has stopped to bury displaying victory signs assad soldiers approach the center of east and go to the offensive has lasted more than a month with russian warplanes carrying out crucial as strikes. me on the rebel terror is finally over the syrian army has been able to free eastern ghouta we think our president. and the two of us sort of the last rebels are leaving the area the conditions of their withdrawal were negotiated late into the evening many are now trying to get to the city of idlib in the north one of their last remaining strongholds. and the children were taking

prisoner by the rebels for four weeks and held as hostages. in the end my son was ready to kill my daughter and me so they couldn't violate a semi more. that little bit too hard. they beat them with rifle butts and stomped on them with heavy boots and a horse can i live binti then they grabbed my daughter and screamed that she was now married to one of the revolutionaries if she refused they would cut off her head and give it to me. said they were monsters sent me no means. more and more refugees are making their way through the card or out of eastern gota more than four hundred thousand people were caught in the crossfire essentially held hostage by rival groups with a common goal overthrowing the assad regime. many are now in the custody of the

syrian army apparently the lesser of two evils. eastern ghouta now just a collection of ruins a region without people after the recapture of the region moscow and damascus bursting with self-confidence and washington after announcing it would freeze millions of dollars in reconstruction aid is on the back foot what's left of the dead the homeless and many displaced eight years after the civil war began with a few isolated protests against the assad regime the president has almost finished bringing the country back under his eye and grip. let's talk to correspondent ayesha vora she's following developments in go to from beirut in neighboring lebanon hi anshul good to see you bring us up to date on these that rebel of accusations from eastern does this mean the syrian regime is now regaining control of the entire region around damascus. well it certainly means that though it might

pick them up a little bit longer. expected because there is the general slum the army of islam which is the main group controlling the law seems to be the way that some members say one that we know office said there is no deal with the government according to the state television to buses with the fighters and their families have actually left the mark and i have left for jobless they're not going to live they are going to drug us which is another area in the north of syria so there still is a little bit of confusion because that is the final word from the slum the dominant abode group but having said that they have admitted to at least this march that the wounded in dumas would be evacuated at some point today if we do see a full rebel withdraw from duma what does this mean for the syrian conflict anshul does this mean essentially that the assad regime has effectively won it absolutely does mean that i mean if the moment they get this would be the second biggest

victory for. the assad regime after a level which to begin in december two thousand and sixteen once they are inside tomorrow which is expected to happen soon there will be a tiny pocket in how much other time pockets and there are and that's where they will focus their attention to the already started some sort of allotment there as well and then if the images are the most these could be a little bit difficult for the regime to get because of turkish boots on the ground that the regime has vetoed it several times to even get all of their territory back but to answer your question in short this is a significant victory for assad's regime and in many ways would see it as of a shallowness of along with russia has won so could be a huge turning point i'm sure what about the civilians the fighters who are leaving as you said heading for rebel controlled regions in the north what can they expect there. well let's just really from the frying pan into the fire move there conditions in italy and have been pretty horrifying as well even though in general as the turkey says that they are sort of building some sort of infrastructure for

the syrians and it live it's been a pretty sad story in fact the city in one of these in the u.k. sitting observatory for human rights has a short while ago shared with us journalists as important our house the dean of these civilians from wood that were trying to get into turkey from the limb and the reason they want to go to turkey is because it was already overpopulated there's not enough for them to survive on and they want to go to turkey because they see they can perhaps build a better life for themselves now on the border there the turkish forces have treated them they've beaten up on the young boys like the idea this is not a new story this is happened several times on the turkish border with people the syrian refugees want to live in and also in fact happened here in lebanon where american the lebanese border now turkey does not want any more refugees that's right that's why the turkish forces are stopping the refugees correspondent reporting for us from beirut i'm sure thank you very much well it is traditional

easter message pope francis urged an end to the quote carnage in syria the pontiff led the easter celebrations at the vatican for christians around the world have been marking easter sunday the day they believe that jesus christ rose from the debt. the pope's adoring crowd eager to hear his traditional easter message in it pope francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict. he boys tope for the korean peninsula discussed parts of africa affected by hunger and dummy conflicts and terrorism and spoke of the wounds of ongoing conflict in the middle east. today we beg for the fruits of peace for the entire world beginning with the beloved and long suffering land of syria whose people are worn down by a seemingly endless war. in sunny jerusalem hundreds of christians gathered in the

city's church of the holy. to mark the research action of jesus christ. it is believed that he was crucified and buried where the church now stands in his easter address the pontiff called for we come silly ation in the holy land two days after more than a dozen palestinians were killed by israeli troops during protests in gaza but this hate. hate speech was the he also implored politicians all over the world to always respect human dignity and devote themselves to the common good. that were defunct chinese space station as reentered the earth's atmosphere years after scientists lost contact with at that one was launched in two thousand and eleven and served as china's first space station a stronger say it mostly disintegrated upon re-entry but people were fortunate not

to have been hit by the remaining debris. after all bitting over a year and asia the chang gong one disintegrated above the remote south pacific far away from human settlements astronomers a calling it a lucky escape. launched in two thousand and eleven the station had mocked a giant leap for china's celestial ambitions astronauts on board conducted experiments and practiced space dockings but the vessel stopped working in two thousand and sixteen and began orbiting closer and closer to earth west in space experts think china had lost control of the station something beijing denies. astronomers say the spacecraft mostly burn top upon re-entry but dish some debris to the north of tahiti they say the fears over where the station would reenter the earth's atmosphere point to an issue that needs to tension. sincerity yes i'm.

sure it's something like a degree removed because we are more than a force of five products of our lives in orbit. far from it that means we have three solid objects or bigger stars which may later or. two in the atmosphere and i think we have to do it. with space junk only likely to increase the question is to whom does it fall to regulate the outer reaches of our world. they work waiting american television producer writer steven bochco is dead at the age of seventy four he middleby a household name but many people claimed he had bent it the modern television drama with shows in the one nine hundred eighty s. like hell street blues it broke with standard cop show formats to show a different side of life. it was the t.v. cop show which broke the mold and reinvented the format's hill street blues ran for

nearly one hundred fifty episodes in the one nine hundred eighty s. decades before netflix in the box set the show zeroed in on the every day lives of the star for the single fictional police station. for its legendary producer steven bochco it was all about innovation it just changed the rules of. law that is. all the rules we created a language. that really didn't exist. hill street blues featured a cast of characters some of them lovable and some not so lovable. at its core it wasn't a cop show at its core it was a people show it was just about these people. and how they managed to survive. in which they had an impossible job.

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once they start there's no stopping. just starting people something on g.w. . welcome back you're watching news our top story china has slapped import tariffs on a whole range of u.s. imports including pork and fruit in an escalating trade spat between beijing and washington the move comes after president trump imposed punitive tariffs on chinese steel and aluminum. now saudi arabia is known as one of the world's most conservative societies things might be changing though the reason is falling prices have hit the oil rich kingdom hard while crown prince mohammed bin solomon has

unveiled an ambitious program of reforms known as vision twenty thirty aimed at transforming the kingdom's economy now these reforms include diversifying the economy and reducing its dependence on oil also creating a new jobs and making the country less reliant on foreign workers saudi arabia also wants a track more foreign investment into the country and it has also taken a few steps towards social reform it's made a start in lifting some of the oppressive restrictions on women for example a driving ban for women will finally be removed later this year our reporter funny for char traveled to the capital riyadh and to jeddah to look at what this vision for the future really means for the country. riyadh is an international city a third of the population comes from abroad many of them man or workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall khan they once enjoyed is starting to fade . saudis first know that the saudi government's plan to reduce unemployment among

native saudis employers who hire none so these will have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example will be restricted to saudis only foreigners will be banned from at least twelve jobs they snoozing store selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only we're looking for a salesperson male or. saudis asian is a good idea there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and a lot of service returned from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners or their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the cell of the city it's

a tough area most of the people here are foreign workers want to here is from bangladesh he arrived a month ago to work in this shop learning how to assemble picture frames everything is getting more expensive learned the salaries aren't enough for everyone it's hard to it's if they're to survive for the person's life for manual row course was never easy in saudi arabia just as in many parts of the world but falling oil prices have made it more difficult and as your prices doubled in a year pushing up prices and recently new taxes on basic goods added an extra burden it's even more to here has just finished his shift how many hours did you work today i swear words sixteen hours. that's a lot. maybe it's a lot but i need to do that for the salary he makes one thousand three hundred saudi ryall a month that's about three hundred fifty u.s. dollars on the way home he tells me he used to have a good life until his father got very sick you know almost all of our money on his

treatment so i just thought that i should come here to. keep them alive being the eldest in the family he border responsibility he dropped out of engineering studies and came to saudi arabia to earn money but it wasn't as easy as he had expected life is becoming more difficult for foreigners most of the people of other countries in their job and even here he of the call is leaving so they are of me because you know there are now just and they can't live like that maybe my boss gave me a place to live. the was a not like that even some people don't have a job sometimes the slaves near the road don't have time money to buy food just want to hear chooses not to show me the room he lives in with three others he

doesn't want to get into trouble and be sent home he wants to stay as long as he can to make money for his family he's just one of millions of foreign workers in saudi arabia they are realizing though that the future here belongs to the saudis. funny fatah has returned from saudi arabia and she joins us in our studio to talk more about the story high funny tell us more about what this saudi first agenda means especially for foreign workers like we'll tell you who we saw in your report exactly as you have heard in a report to sell the first is the corner store basically of a big agenda which is called vision twenty thirty by the kingdom in order to diversify the economy of this country in order to make it less reliable in order to want to make sure that a lot of people get jobs that they can enter the job market the very high unemployment right now thirty percent of all around and lord and thirty percent among young saudis the country wants to make sure that if people get a perspective at the same time however we must note that more than one third of the

population around ten million documents of the records are from foreign countries know and high skilled workers and the person of c. in the winter here in this report who belong small to the low skilled section these are the ones for the most concerned it's not about the engineers it's not about the doctors obviously it's really about the new skilled workers first we're going to experience the facts of what saudi's first means and that means for example just like just practically purely you have to pay more to stay in the country to get your working permit your employer must pay a higher fee to make sure that he can employ you because there's a system involved where d.m. for and has to pay more if he employs more than fifty percent workers in the company so there's so many factors involved here what i find however most alarming talking to foreign workers that they say they're ready to choose the illegal way at the state in the country illegally as an undocumented worker to make sure that they can keep working and send money back home so this entire plan saudi first is

opening up a completely new level set of problems there's been so much reporting about the reforms that are now underway in saudi arabia and a lot of people are saying now the kingdom is on the cusp of change you know what other changes did you experience in your reporting from the saudis first change the big agenda course of. the other agenda is to rebrand the image of the country making sure that this country is not seen as the ultra conservative country but more a moderate form islam more moderate that really makes sure that also women have a had a chance to be part of the change i've spoken to a lot of women and of course the driving ban being lifted soon is the big headline all over around the world but it's also important to know that even though there are more steps towards freedom for women there is the guardianship system still in place so how much freedom you can actually practically enjoy still depends on the male relatives in your family and just how willing they ought to give up control when it comes to your desire to drive when it comes to your desire to have a job as

a receptionist for example that was deemed immoral because you could actually talk with male people in that hotel or your receptionist so there are limits to change depending on the social set up of your family or of your background and how much resistance is there as well to these changes not everybody's embracing change also women the some women i've spoken to they say actually i want to wear my a bio i want to aim to have scars because i want to be a good muslim and an ultra conservative muslim and the question will be of course how that resistance plays out there on social media but also maybe on the street so to maybe is not really known to have a protest culture of people take to streets except when you look at the eastern part of the country we have seen protests this entire it change that you're seeing is saudi arabia right now the steps of changes our poll to future process and nobody can really answer just how resistance is going to play out in the future and whether it will play out at all you just have to keep want to touring the story and funny just very briefly if you can was there any talk that you heard about saudi

arabia's role in the conflict in yemen at the moment what actually was in saudi arabia there were several missiles hit. it so to reveal apparently from yemen and of course when it comes to this huge conflict it's not just yemen it's iran were the competition lies saudi arabia is competing. not just when it comes to reach the original influence but also because the change for its women that's a complete different story the political part of the story that we won't be able to astoria right now but these are the political issues that women and men and i'm not willing to answer in front of the camera it delicate right you have these funny for char thanks so much for sharing your experiences in your reporting. there of the work of iranian artists are here in the shadows the subject of our culture show our twenty one this week or deb you know we have robin merrill from

our culture desk to tell us more about this. robin so tell us more sharon nash as she lives in exile in the u.s. where she forced to leave iran no she was actually in iran in sorry she was in the u.s. at the university of berkeley california in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine when the islamic revolution happened and almost overnight the women in society and the roles changed completely. they became second class citizens if you diet and that's what stopped her going back to it iran really she didn't like. she was shocked by it as well she didn't actually return to iran to lead news later ninety ninety and funny enough that visit to iran sort of spots off her creativity as an artist and ever since then in her she's been showing you know about islamic women in islamic societies and etcetera

and injustices against them especially in iran anyway let's find out more about. it deals with contrasts between islam and the west men and women light and dark where reality segues into dream. and sure enough shots work always uses the female voice. it's always this ballet theatre in extremely fragile and vulnerable and yet extremely strong and defiant the female experience in iran was the subject of her first feature film women without men about four women seeking to escape their lives . as they stood

by. me yet. but. in fact. i. always knew she wanted to be an artist at the age of seventeen she left iran to study in the united states at that time the western backed shah was still in power in one nine hundred seventy nine he was overthrown an islamic fundamentalist ayatollah khomeini took over after that now shot was no longer able to return home.

and i think it was years or the most traumatic years and my life is that gratian became really critical for me separation the trauma of exile and a change to run on these issues she also addresses in her video installations. in twenty seventeen nesha turned her focus to the world of opera when she directed aida for the salt spec festival. was our ambassador. sure initiates work is constantly evolving mirroring the trajectory of her life. robin tell us more about her new film this is a documentary about someone who's known as the star of the orient in the middle

east yeah we don't know so well in the west but she's a huge star this is. she was a legendary sing in the twentieth century in the middle east and apart from telling us about this extraordinary musician that shows the major sacrifices a woman had to make it is not society if you wanted to be an artist of any car. was known actually by musicians here in the west as diverse as bob dylan was a big fan and believe it or not maria callas amerikana said that include to have the woman with being comparable voiced let's hear just a few seconds now this is actually an actress but my name into the original voice a group. was. the. tend to be rather sad in the martian kind of an unrequited love it cetera but it's

a very particular type of singing and very difficult as well musically rhythmically and everything the hauntingly beautiful yeah i says well pretty extraordinary voice and sharing this shot as she has another film coming out i understand about iranian women living in exile like yourself yeah well this will this is going to happen next year this is our next project and meanwhile if any of this is spontaneity our audience is interest this documentary about. his running at the moment in iran they double digits by the bill on our website of course that called slash cultural hub right robin merrill our culture editor thank you very much. as for the small business news now and doing the hard yards portugal the financial crisis hurt austerity even more but the country did pull through and started spending again well before everything looks rosy growth is now at two point seven

percent we took a trip to a warmer and brighter part of europe for business is going pretty well for even organised his co-operative has been making wine since nine hundred fifty seven but sales haven't been this good for years. in the beginning there were only this part and then have to upgrade it to increase the capacity and then we. will double the capacity we. just. because we are in the maximum capacity of production and we have more demand and with what can you produce around thirty people work in the cover where a co-operative. working conditions have improved for most portuguese in the past two years thanks to a raft of reforms including a higher minimum wage instead of starting economic growth it's accelerated it at

least that's how the portuguese finance minister sees it we have done some increases especially for the most poor. people for the pensions but we have done these. correct way by complaining the growth of the spending with the growth of the g.d.p. portugal has also tried to stimulate the tourism industry regulations have been eased for hotels and restaurants and as well as cutting spending the government has also cut taxes and the gamble is paid off millions of tourists are now visiting portugal especially lisbon. to izmir the important thing back to the recovering of our cities but now is having an important impact on the developing our rural areas the couple where a co-operative is sixty kilometers from lisbon but the wind produced here because the name of the capital it simply sells better do the increase of tourism in porto

reasons really trendy the labels are really important nowadays but not everyone is profiting from the new wave of tourism rising property values are changing neighborhoods low income locals are being forced out like fernando tech sarah who grew up in porto on the banks of the river he can only afford to keep the studio as the new bars and restaurants drive up the prices. got a new one yes there are no portuguese people that can afford to pay rent in this area not one i was born here and i was thrown out so a hotel could be built and i have to move way back. if we prolly even all those things the government should make sure everyone benefits from the economic upswing but he remains optimistic that portugal can find prosperity without the need for staring. now if you're wondering what that is behind me this month kicks off frankincense season in amman in the middle east the resin is

harvested this time of year to create iran where so many of us associate with christmas the trade has centuries but modern life is taking its toll. frankincense is using essential oils from french perkins and that has partly helped drive global demand you know school declared part of the door for a region in southern no man's land of frankincense a world heritage site. frankincense is still considered a precious well the trees are rare in order to protect them we collected trees from many places in the door for problems we protect them at this reserve for natural frankincense trees. you've got the. efforts here could help protect the bulls will your trees that produce the resin for frankincense for trade in the future demand is so high that the trees here do

not have enough time to regenerate. but there's more to the you know school site here this area was also an important stop on the ancient silk road which runs all the way to china in those days frankincense was traded in exchange for spices textiles and. a back to monday a time to catch up on the weekends go to sleep or football. and we have all or moody from good of you sports with us to talk us through the weekend action hi ali so things are starting to crystallize yet some things are so many other things are still wide open so for example i and second other step closer it's a concern in the title this season but the rice the champions league place is definitely still to play for ok well let's start with sunday's big game frankfurt travelling to bremen let's take a look at what happened. brakeman's florian co felt has been working to emulate the kind of success the eco coverage has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia

international though confident builds his team around attack thomas delaney with a pinpoint cross just not to lose a bitch. one nil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal you know high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck back with some style as well. kevin prince but once again with a snappy back he was just for a look at your age. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the elite your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kick see how crucial this crucial use of it is cross deflected high into the air by dabdoub around. and into the net. lucas with its key tried and failed to control the ball perhaps downs would block the sun. braman walked off two one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up.

ok ali this is going to be a blow for frankfurt and their hopes for a champion thinks absolute it was not a good weekend at all for then they dropped from fourth so in the champions league places to six outside the champions league places just about the definition of a bad weekend but it is all very close in the race for the top four as we can see with the table here light secondly the case in the teams that overtake frank so this weekend but there are only six points separating third place from seventh so there really could still be a lot of movement that and especially next week actually because we've got leverkusen playing light sick so forth against fifth definitely those two teams could change places i think shall look pretty set for a place in the top four for champions league spot and by and of course as well there's no doubt about that one at the bottom there we just saw braman win obviously not very much. helped them in the relegation battle they now look just about saif i would say ok well not a lot of women at the very top of the table as you said byron looking really strong

on saturday they thrashed dortmund six nail how good is aspiring to a pretty heavy defeat up for dortmund but this is by unseen is just that on a completely different level to anyone else in germany for a long time we thought that we said that dortmund were the big rivals for the bye and we drummed up this kind of rivalry that classical we call it when they play each other well by and showed on saturday that that is now a bit of a farce it's not really a rivalry there's nobody you can rival them in the bonus league or at the moment but it wasn't a perfect saturday for by and they could have confirmed the title which has the statement that didn't happen actually they haven't won the title at home in front of their own funds since two thousand so a bit of a disappointment there we actually got a few views from the buy in players so let's hear what defend not formals have to say about it. yes i think most of the fans and most of us would like it to ridin really tight let's home. but of course no we won't try to win it. to close this game to home so maybe that's ok. and ali just them briefly look at what point say

about dortmund here can their coach peter schrager survive this i mean this has been a rough run for him i mean to the end of the season perhaps i think it's a bit late in the game now to be changing coaches but i think it would be a big surprise if he stays as coach until next season they've been mediocre at best understood he did steady the ship after the disastrous pace of bosch rain but i don't think he's done enough to really convince them that he's the long term solution and in fact they were going to have a difficult run of games coming up they still have to play good lately they still have to play shout to their local rivals and lay the case another champions a contender so if that goes badly he could be out of a job even before the end of the season all right ali where you from sports thanks for bring us up to date on the weekends bundesliga action. and a bit of surfing for you australian surfing great mix fanning is in fine form in its final event before retiring the thirty six year old who famously fought off the shark while competing in two thousand and fifteen progressed to the fourth round of

the world surf league of benton fells beach in australia the three time world champion produced a near flawless performance in front of his home crowd she will hope to secure a farewell victory later this week. and we just have time for a minder of our top story that we're following for you here on t w south african anti-apartheid campaigner winnie mandela has died at the age of eighty one the ex-wife of the late president nelson mandela remains active in the country's politics until late in her life. thanks for watching t w news don't forget you can get the very latest news and information around the clock on our website dot com or you can follow us actually twitter our handle attitude of you news we're watching you a little rock will be right here apa news desk in just a few minutes don't go away. cut

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