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drugmaker acorn we'll give you all the. i'm priest of corporate and business. global trade relations are under pressure by u.s. president trump now mexico and the european union are taking a stand for free trade both sides overhauls an older trade deal abolishing almost all tariffs between them when german chancellor angela merkel and mexico's president and the campaign on the after all officially opened the mexican exhibition stand at the world's biggest industrial tech fair and hand over pentagon yet though said he is optimistic that an overhaul of the north american free trade agreement nafta could also be reached a deal president tom pence repeatedly threatened to tear up german chancellor angela merkel said multinational corporation has added value for all parties echoing the thoughts of many at the fair. speed is the message at hand over customers want their products delivered faster and they want to be able to customize them that means speeding up production and logistics it's

a challenge with global reach the fare is therefore considered one of germany's most important annual events underlined by the attendance of german chancellor angela merkel she was joined by mexican president enrique pena nieto whose country is the partner nation for this year's fair you have a moment and is it good to the tough to sit what's your one germany is doing very well economically at the moment your employment rate is as low as ever. but i recognize that today's numbers aren't tomorrow's prognosis and therefore it's important that we strengthen our innovative skills that this is that she didn't just do a little in about to once teach cut it off at the showdown i can and hand over that innovation translates to automation and machine learning often in the form of robots both require a very fast network that can handle massive data loads in real time. building that network known as five g. is another focus at hanover. mexico has its own concerns its industrial economy is

under threat with questions hanging over the north american free trade agreement now it needs to diversify it hopes hanover will be a good first. for more from the hanover affair let's cross over to see him bears leo stephen we heard the german chancellor and the mexican president welcoming the overhaul of the trade deal between mexico and the e.u. give us some more about that's right this of course was meant to be an update to an agreement that went back twenty one years ago that was focused mostly on industrial goods what the update to does is add agricultural products dairy products for example farm goods chickens pork you name it that of course is important it also allows companies from both nations to bid on government contracts without tariff without penalty all important but behind this is also a very big political statement at a time when both mexico and germany are under fire from the u.s.

for running trade surpluses with them this is a statement about the value of free trade now of course mexico needs more than a free trade agreement with the e.u. to make up for its trade with the u.s. its biggest trade partner so we'll see what happens ahead and stephen the hanover fair is showcasing the latest in industrial technology and the german chancellor says german companies have quite some catching up to do when it comes to artificial intelligence intelligence tell us why. that's right i mean this is widely seen both from an academic perspective receipt papers on germany lagging behind and also from polls of businesses you see executives say the same thing one of the reasons for this is that germany's economy has been structurally set up as a manufacturing economy it has little incentive or had little incentive in the past to really push forward on issues such as the digitalisation schools for example big research centers that you might see in the u.s. tied in with industry they're really unconnected here and you are seeing an effort

to move in the other direction you are seeing for example that artificial intelligence was a big topic in the coalition agreement that now is behind the current government but in that case that mostly spoke to regulating the environment and creating rules around artificial intelligence so we'll see what happens in terms of actually fostering the development of artificial intelligence and steven as this trade show is kicking off is there any technological feature that has caught your particular attention well we actually took a tour yesterday of some of the exhibitors and one of the things that i found most interesting was to stop at kuka now google is a very large robotics firm had it start years years years ago and it's often seen in a lot of production floors as having as big robotic orange arms that make cars what we saw was a much smaller arm it's known as a sensitive robot and it was placing batteries inside laptops this is meant to be easy to use easy to set up outside of the box and very easy to operate for someone

who doesn't have programming skills the goal here is to get into these smaller and midsized german businesses that still haven't really invested heavily in robotics they didn't tell us how much it cost but they said that is it is accessible for a smaller market that isn't yet exploring robots sensitive robots sounds good steve mirsky reporting from the head of affairs steve thank you so much. mexico is this us partner country of the hanover affair and it has developed into an industrial production hub for the auto industry in particular german manufacturers brought with them the so-called dural system combining vocational training with academic courses the system aims to bring forth skilled workers fast male and female. today's lesson focuses on the bodywork every screw every wire if a car needs to be in the right place eighteen year old garrett gonzalez started training here seven months ago and because of that it's the third year in

a row that audi mexico has taken on new apprentices when we were in the first week was really exciting especially the first day to see where it got to working and learning and then i saw the q fine which we make here in mexico for the first time . yara is one of eighty people doing a three year apprenticeship it's a two track training system structured the same way as in germany. eighteen months are spent out he's training center the rest is hands on training in the production plant. or is mainly interested in auto electronics she wants to be an electro mechanical technician. but i think there's a beginning. i fell in love with cars as a child i think it's really fascinating just knowing how a car drives how all the parts work together and why each individual screw is important. the instructor takes the students out to

test the brakes. but yara is not yet allowed to drive the test car herself and doesn't raise as much but as you well universities teach mostly hearing that's not hands on enough for me here we work on the cars and learn a lot on the job the practical training is what i'll need most if i want to get a job with the company. next it's time for lunch like most trainees here yara learned about the audi course through social media. the german car maker wants to attract more women to work in engineering professions . but i mean isn't that the way it is perfectly normal for me because i've always wanted this job. and if i do a good job then i do it well regardless of whether i'm a woman. or there are more men here than women but i also feel

as a woman that working here is a great opportunity the training center is only a short distance from the production line i would be built the plant a few years ago to manufacture its q five s u v. now here in germany a health care company has called off its four point four billion euro takeover of u.s. generic drugs maker acorn several essential preconditions that were part of the agreement had not been met by acorn freezing news claims the acquisition would have been the second largest in the company's history despite the deal being cancelled for xenu's is aiming for stronger foothold in the u.s. generics market a spokesperson said let's get more of this was conrad booze in standing by the frankfurt stock exchange conrad for citing severe breaches of data integrity tell us more well yes allegedly acorn failed repeatedly to comply with

regulation by the american f.d.a. the food and drug administration regulation with which has to do with how data is being generated stored and communicated in the production of producing pharmaceutical products frizzy in u.s. learned about this at first by anonymous letter and then implemented inquiry which according to u.s. has found out that the infringements were so bad that it was well that it was better to call the whole deal off now i have to tell you though there are a few people here at least at the exchange who believe that this is an excuse that this is way for us to pull out of a deal that many here believed was a bit expensive. reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange there not for the latest on an industry which reminds us how important it can be to just stop and

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