the united states and china appear to be heading for a trade war on tuesday the u.s. threatened to widen the list of chinese goods subject to tariffs by a further thirteen hundred items which would face a total of fifty billion dollars in. president donald trump accuses china of stealing u.s. intellectual property to use in its own exports beijing solid response one that wasn't long in coming. we will take corresponding measures of equal intensity and scale against u.s. products according to china's foreign trade law statute to be announced in the near future. china immediately threatened to levy fifty billion dollars of tariffs on one hundred imported us products think lukey us agricultural exports such as soybeans u.s. soybean futures lost a total one point seven billion dollars on the news but facing is also targeting pork the u.s. exports around a quarter of its pork. china is a particularly important market last year we sent one point one billion dollars of

pork to china that made it the second largest export market by volume so it's a disappointment us producers say over one hundred thousand rural jobs depends directly on pork exports they would be endangered if china were to import less because of any tariffs. at the same time the tariffs would make effective products more expensive in each other's country it's a lose lose situation. it will definitely have an impact for example many fruits the kids love only ground foreign countries we don't have them in china. it's absolutely right to impose tariffs because i've seen the news about the us crapping trade deals with us it's right to fight back. china is also fighting back formally. it's already lodged an official complaint about the us tariffs at the world trade organization and the

united nations is also watching the escalating dispute between the two trades titans with increasing unease. wars. for those involved war for the international economy. we need to have. international cooperation. that must be. the season start to overcome the problem right now that doesn't seem to be on the chinese u.s. agenda on friday president trump threatened yet another round of tariffs this time one hundred billion dollars worth china said it will quote counter attack with great strength if the new tariffs are imposed. social media giant facebook revealed this week that as many as eighty seven million users may have been affected by the cambridge analytical data scandal thirty million people more than previously thought it also released figures about the location of those affected by

the data breach. the u.s. was worst hit but the date of millions of others around the world might also have been improperly shared after the u.s. uses data in the philippines indonesia the u.k. and mexico was also compromised we didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well an attack with . foreign interference election beach in addition to developers and data. right now you have what our responsibility and that would. be with my our next founder mark zuckerberg finally decided to face the music his company will impose stricter controls of which extant companies will have access to which subscriber data and as of monday users will be able to verify if their data was stolen by cambridge analytic or will that be enough the answer may come next tuesday and wednesday when circuit testifies in front of

a joint hearing of the senate commerce and judiciary committee's. french railways descended into chaos on tuesday hundreds of thousands of travelers were left stuck in paris and throughout france a walkout of state owned rail operator s.n.c.f. but to the cancellation of almost all high speed train services the few regional services operating were mostly delayed kosmos because this is really catastrophic something needs to be done we haven't done anything we need to get to work like everyone else it's not normal we're against this we're not happy. coordinated by four unions the strikes are a response to government plans to reform the country's rail industry president manuel mccall to set out to dismantle privileges including the fifty days holiday a year to which staff of the highly indebted s.n.c.f. are entitled to mccall also wants to raise the rail workers retirement age the moment train drivers can retire at fifty two. we're very happy with the number of

strikers in the context of the number of trains because due to the strike practically the entire railway network was paralyzed so we're satisfied with the level of mobilization by the train workers. the rail unions have settled in for the long haul for the next three months at least until june workers plan to strike for two days each week and almost a year after mccann was elected president on a reform platform. there industries are also growing restless workers in the power and gas sectors of also come out on strike in protest of planned privatisation municipal waste collectors are striking for the right to retire early if they deal with hazardous chemicals and air france staff are fighting for a six percent pay hike it's a huge challenge to mcluhan's reforms. swedish music streaming service spotify held its stock market did view in new york this week it chose the rather unusual direct listing process for the launch investors and company founder simply

placed their existing shares on to the open market without new shares or intermediaries like investment banks spotify shares bikes at a hundred sixty six dollars though it traded twenty percent lower at times during the week. the first direct train from london to amsterdam has made its maiden journey it took less than four hours operating eurostar hopes the new route will entice business travelers and holiday makers away from the air to the rails from city center to city center its fastest flying and only cost thirty five pounds one way. vajra mental activists have threatened to sue oil giant shell unless it ramps up its investment in renewable energies friends of the earth netherlands branch me your defense see accuses shell of basing its corporate strategy on a future fossil fuel demand of fifty percent and only putting five percent of total investment into sustainable sources the activists gave shell two months to come up

with fresh plans. tesla c.e.o. he lawn must decided to play an april fool's joke on his investors this week by tweeting that electric car company was bankrupt tesla shares dropped eight percent on the tweet but musk had the last laugh. by friday opening his company's share price had bounced back by twenty five percent. you're right bearish was badly beaten up along this track he's brought the printed smartphone pictures with him as evidence a competitor sent a group of armed thugs cut down his rape seed and drove the fifty eight year old off the land he had leased state owned fields he'd farm for decades his rival obviously has good connections to the local authorities is leasehold was counselled from one day to the next and transferred to his attacker certainly a lot of money at stake. i think they were only interested in getting their hands on the e.u.

subsidies. she says organized crime gangs in eastern slovakia are taking over huge areas of arable land to become eligible for millions of euros in e.u. subsidies every year. he says he knows of thirty other farmers who've been driven away by violence and blackmail so far you're right barrett is the only one brave enough to come forward and talk about it publicly. the police and justice ministry have been informed but slovak you know authorities remain unresponsive. they have so much power and influence they can manipulate the police they exert influence over administrative authorities and also manipulate the agency which distributes the e.u. subsidies. this is the corrupts one journalist young korczak was investigating before he was shot dead together with his girlfriend. a

tragic wake up call for slovakians in the country's largest town in the east. demonstrators now rally in the streets every friday the testing against a corruption and bribery. your eye barish won't give up the fight for his fields. he hopes the current protests will bring about change. he doesn't expect help from the e.u. fighting corruption is a sovereign task for slovakian authorities. today's lesson is focused on the bodywork every screw every wire of a car needs to be in the right place when eighteen year old jada gonzalez started training here seven months ago it's the third year in a row that audi mexico has taken on new apprentices here in pueblo where we were in the first week was really exciting especially the first day to see where the training and learning and then i saw the q five for the first time which we make here in mexico. yarrow is one of eighty doing

a three year apprenticeship based on the german deal track training system. young skilled workers are in demand here as long as mexico keeps producing to the international market. here is training center is only a short distance from the production line. built the plant a few years ago to manufacture its q five s.u.v. there is room for a second plant here but audi will only be building it if the location remains attractive to the company the city of puebla depends on the auto industry the sector generates a third of its economic output. but there's been no brawl there since u.s. president donald trump threatened to impose high import tariffs on cars made in mexico. that would be a grim scenario for the trainees here. yeah removed here from the north especially for the algae course. she shares a small apartment with of the trainees. they don't have much spare time so their

families often comes to visit. us parents are proud of the way. it is but i'm not going to jump less right now other want to do is finish my training and then start working in the pond in the long term i'd like a secure job. and i'd like to buy a house and a car with my wages and support my family especially my youngest siblings either of them is that when you go to come i think you can you. hear it gonzalez is due to graduate in a little over two years. she hopes mexico will still be making enough cars then for her to get a job. the

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