in a neurological center two men were arrested both from rome for their villain in the incident office says a mobile phone video to head with the investigation. you're watching the video still to come china begins another great one for what this time to dominate the automotive industry off tomorrow we go to beijing for some analysis. and that's what kristof is standing by. to. learn german with. any time any place.

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chris of kober and this is d w business welcome. serving the biggest auto market of the world the beijing motor show kicked off in the chinese capital it comes as the skyrocketing growth of new car sales appear to be slowing for the first time still chinese than sooners drove more than twenty nine million new vehicles off lots around the people's republic last year chinese drivers love their s.u.v.s which make up around forty percent of sales but electric cars also booming they jumped by more than fifty percent last year to seven hundred eighty thousand units now that may be a fraction of total new car sales but it still makes china the world leader in the evy he told business and with beijing's thailand quote us for electric cars sales are likely to increase further german manufacturers want a piece of that pie although having been slow in that he caught of element in you

had a false flag and has even made the china business a freestanding unit within the company. and d.s. is exactly where he wants to be leading vokes wagon and just like his predecessor his sights are set on china this is where big bucks are made with a brand new s.u.v.s or with a new levy to limousine have a decent tends to pick up the pace according to his vision the company will develop and build new models faster and cheaper. why good just because we're doing well now doesn't mean it will be the case in the coming years of course it's good when the brand is strong and you have the technology but product decisions like anticipating trends that's our main job and that is always exciting and full of risks. starting in twenty nineteen almost every brand will be introducing new e-cards to the market drivers in china

are already using an electric vehicle produced by the sole brand sold is built and developed by a v.w. joint venture in central china the industry is in agreement that china is leading the way any mobility china's policy is very much committed to electric vehicles. all the government rules and regulations are towards strengthening electric cars electric car production beyond electro mobility their central government wants to be a trailblazer in autonomous striving to that's why folks wagon has just opened its new future center in beijing their vision is a car that's a lot like a smartphone on wheels with our future center we combine vehicle design user experience as i am but also future mobility concepts to really understand chinese customers customers here in asia and we actually see differences in the arbonne

mobility developing here. the daily traffic in beijing shows just how important new traffic concepts are for most of the day millions of cars here are stuck in traffic jams. for more let's bring in mechanic he is the head of the china policy program at nottingham university and he joins me from name bold china this morning welcome to. after years of explosive growth car sales in china have been slumping recently put that into perspective. wait a natural slow down we had this huge growth in the last few years certain. due to two things one there was a higher tax on the purchase of vehicles and there were more importantly china is now undergoing a trend see showing from. older vehicles into new energy vehicles that and so for the next few months or we would expect a slowdown the wired both of the supplied the government policy in the consumers

will adopt a two did a new train that and then we will see an acceleration after two thousand and twenty which will be mostly be driven by electric vehicles so it's a little similar to what china has been doing in other sectors like the manufacturing made it slow and not pushing for high volume manufacturing the products are and the same has been with the car industry slowing down on the traditional vehicles wait a few months to develop with the system and then push it faster for the new electric field so we will expect numbers there was surprise us beijing just announced last week that it would liberalize foreign ownership limits in the automotive sector how would that impact the likes of fox wagon or general motors which have been pretty well off. and this is always a double head just sort of because a one handed chinese governmental tends to. join rangers on a ship or when they need to continue to hold a fifty one percent on a steeper i think it's been decades now now i'll. bring in download these

restriction is not going to happen now is going to happen in the next four or five years and i fear there by then that it will be too late because with by dana we expect that almost a thirty million electric vehicles on the road or even in china and sought out it will be by far be the biggest markets or let's not forget there is another important thing that all car manufacturers in china use that are. produce electric vehicles need to purchase electric battery from chinese manufacturer c a t l a so the likes of us dragon which not enjoys a great market has been doing so for the past few years they need to be careful on how to play these new electric market and then at the same time try to secure these a doctor with the car cannot move and that's a problem that is having a hard balance a new possibility to all one hundred percent of money factoring of cars but not

being able to all know one hundred percent of the box three and we know cars are made by both the you know the body and the battery very different concept from before and briefly if you did china's government is obviously pushing you have really this issue of you mobility yet at the same time if people have the choice to still go for big gas guzzlers why is that. when we're changing you know the day we have. the more affluent people are now becoming more green conscious and there we do see even hours of being completely electric of course of pollution from you know by the government to give an example. one of the cities in the south of china one hundred percent of. the buses are electric more than half of taxis are electric and that is of course of decided by the government but these it's below the effect on the population that are in a way to emulate to fill part of the china green initiative but they will be

enticed to purchase also green vehicles so i do not see that any more we have a problem with the big oil cars are we going to get out you had of the china policy program at nottingham university rafa leave it there thank you so much for your. facebook messaging service what's app is raising its minimum user agent europe from thirteen years to sixteen that's also to comply with new european data privacy rules users will have to confirm they're over sixteen years old when they agree to terms of service and privacy policies here in germany wants up is a popular way for parents to keep tabs on their kids. how to get more of us with our tech editor aaron tilton aaron what's up says it wants to comply with you european they'd a privacy legislation what do these new rules demand well as of the twenty fifth of the next month. all companies doing business online will be forced to show consumers what data they collect on them how they store that data and actually give

users the right to have the delegated to lead it if they don't want companies sharing it with each other what we're seeing today is what's app actually doing their due diligence and coming into line with those regulations they also require that for social social media services like whatsapp like facebook that there is a i will basically that they gain permission from a parent if they're under sixteen and use the services ok now how is the company planning to enforce compliance with this new regulation well as you said they're basically they're requiring that many of their users verify that they're above sixteen years of age and right now they're not planning any big compliance push basically as of the twenty for the next month they're going to push up on the be required to verify the fact that they're above the age of sixteen so that's really easy to circumvent i mean anybody who's never read an end user license agreement you know that text you have to read at the beginning of every single answer is a page of pages of text where any time you use a new program and knows that you can circumvent that really easily just by clicking

ok saying the same thing here what's interesting though is that what's app spera company facebook is actually can have a little bit more stringent. compliance measures basically if you under age of the age of sixteen so require that you nominate a parent. well then verify that you're allowed to actually use the services something what's app isn't doing right now and still kind of remains open why they're not taking the same type of policy at their parent company is now you mentioned what's a parent company facebook what does this step these new rules mean to them on a larger scale well when it comes to social media services in general you could view these new european data protection regulations as some the most stringent protection regulations that we've seen since the internet has actually become a general public thing now is really forcing them to change how they do business at least in the european context one thing that is interesting however is facebook founder mark zuckerberg has said he actually agrees with the spirit of the new e.u. regulations and wants to see at least some form of them adopted by facebook and

their associated companies worldwide now why is that if you can well i mean it's kind of obvious and he's been following the news recently knows that facebook is in a lot of trouble when it comes to data protection i mean you know the keyword here is cambridge analytic there are a lot of hot wire water in the u.s. and in europe as well and basically they need to save face they need to show consumers that they are handling their data in a responsible way aaron tilton d.w. tech editor thank you so much for your insight. and that wraps up our show thanks for watching as for me i'm off for three months to spend some time with my baby girl and her lovely mother but i know you're in the very careful hands of the v.w. business to take care. of. your

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