the first foreign trip for v.w. is new boss habit brought him to the beijing motor show where he's delivering a powerful message volkswagen wants to invest fifteen billion euros in china by two thousand and twenty two in electric cars autonomous driving and digitization v.w. launched its first fully electric car in beijing a compact s.u.v. called seoul has a range of more than three hundred kilometers. a number of car makers are developing electric cars and hybrids that's due in part to new rules in china starting in two thousand and nineteen every tenth car sold here must have an alternative drive system to combat air pollution in the cities. china's policy is very much committed to electric vehicle is the all the government rules and regulation are towards a strengthening electric cars electric car production china is the world's largest

car market last year it's on nearly twenty five million new cars sold here almost half of those vehicles were s.u.v.s that's why dime showed off its luxurious mercedes my boss concept a stylish electric car for the super rich it's a mix of s.u.v. and luxury sedan. why don't we introduce their mercedes my bread and we did not expect such a successful and then us we have forgotten four in the recent years the especially here in china they're now based on that success we had hoped for the middle actually. more and more tech companies are investing in china's automobile industry bringing new innovations to the sector startup lincoln co is setting its sights on younger buyers they're developing a car sharing model or drivers can share their car short term with other users via a smartphone app users receive

a subscription and workshop access. the company is also bypassing the old dealership sales model. optics of vehicles which are connected to the internet drive autonomously and are electric. the chinese will come out with them sooner than others will be. fully online connected electric cars are still only a fraction of the vehicles in china but in the coming years that's all going to change china's goal is to become the world's top automotive innovator. for workers from all over germany protested in front of this opel factory nice enough to show their solidarity with their colleagues here. french parent company p.s.a. has threatened to fire around eight hundred employees most convicts workers in the region if it doesn't get wage concessions demonstrate to say they won't bow to what

they're calling extortion. we're not giving up our wages we earned them he gave mattel fought for them and we're not giving them up. because i wanted to come here to show i'm against it. i want our jobs all our jobs to stay in the region believe shoved. opel posted losses for two decades under its previous owner general motors now a new owner p.s.a. is looking to make it more competitive. the company announced the goal in twenty seventeen. plan is this. spending are clear plan is to cut out forced redundancies if we want to keep our existing plants in europe and modernize them to and as well as develop a plan to make each location competitive. higher wage agreements

negotiated between the metal workers union and former owner g.m. coupled with recent. salary hikes of three point seven percent making it harder to restructure opel. negotiations may take weeks but without substantial savings for opel p.s.a. may follow through on its threats to reduce staff at the factory in eyes enough as well as another in kaiserslautern. every step hurts and she hasn't been able to walk without crutches for five years neal of her bag was working as a seamstress at rana plaza when the nine stories of our building collapsed pinning her legs under the rubble for ten hours the compensation she received thirty five hundred euros wasn't enough to cover her multiple operations her family has had to scrimp and save to get by. for her were i want compensation from the government none of the affected workers have been properly compensated they gave us hardly

anything but of what happened to all the aid money they came from abroad we need that money. there was a powerful outcry from the international community after the disaster working conditions in bangladesh improved a bit for the garment workers as owners addressed safety issues and improved structural integrity. still band hense man of clean clothes campaign affiliate in kota says another rana plaza catastrophe could happen at any time in bangladesh. doesn't know where all the factories in bangladesh apology to this agreement and not all hazards have been salted or there has been some serious progress on safety it's better now than the year on a plaza collapsed regarding structural and fire safety but with the textile industry can still decide whether or not to produce sustainably or offer fair working conditions. with the accord on fire and building safety set to expire one

signature is missing from a new agreement the bangladeshi government's. activists are demanding employers carry accident insurance coverage for their workers so people like. won't have to add financial worries to their problems. around central bank lenders from using cryptic currencies the state news agency says officials are concerned that the digital cash could be used for money laundering experts also feel that side but money like bitcoin could be used for tax evasion and served to fund terrorism at the same time iran is suffering a growing currency crisis the rio has dropped to new lows against the us dollar due to fears of more sanctions cryptocurrency were seen as one way round them. to european aerospace companies are joining forces air bus and weapons producer

will collaborate on a fighter jet at a press conference at the iowa airshow in berlin the company said the jets should be in production by twenty forty. they'd replace the german bund despairs euro fighters and the rough ol jets used by the french air force. facebook sold better than expected first quarter results revelations in march that the company had mishandled the personal danger of tens of millions of users did little to slow the social media giants momentum the company posted profits of five billion dollars a jump of sixty three percent mainly from advertising revenues and it continues to add millions of users. fears of factories soon operating without human labor are easing it likely has something to do with changing attitudes about robots once seen as brutish workhorses that would make human workers obsolete they're now acknowledged as

skilled an agile collaborators a trend clearly on display at the world's largest technology trade fair in hanover germany advances in artificial intelligence have made machines smarter and easier to operate they don't require programmers today's robots can even respond to simple hand gestures. they're also more aware of their surroundings able to pause if there is any interference researchers or even developing a kind of electronic skin that can sense objects without direct contact. but the robots don't need to stop their senses can allow them to interact like humans with a kind of physical give and take evading and approaching. co bots are a newer class of lightweight robots that work closely with people there are a nice product that have been around about ten years now danish company universal robots are pioneers in the sector. you wish but the idea came from three students

who wanted to design a robot that could help them make a pizza in the evening it was just a crazy idea from students thinking outside the box. is that ended up becoming an industrial products industry for the place and it was a product projected to see rapid growth the market is expected to increase ten fold over the next five years. meanwhile more and more data is being collected up linked and analyzed allowing systems to run more seamlessly many customers are nervous about their potential data disappearing into the cloud now with edge computing data can be processed near the source instead of in the cloud. it was the thought is that the big advantage is that the technological domain is very localized which allows me to apply our domain technology know how quickly right at the source one had to take thought. that may be enough to convince the naysayers we may soon see a workplace where humans and machines create products together as a team

a harmonious work environment with data gloves and artificial intelligence. it's still just a developer's vision but even that underlines the likelihood that humans will remain in control. the city wasn't a brick germany may be far from the coast but it's now a surfing destination and even stranger the surf is in the middle of a department store it's all part of a campaign to lure people away from their computers i know i was just curious and wanted to see how it works. my son wanted to surprise me and said he planned something for us to do on the weekend he booked us for an hour of surfing you know so let's see what happens. the idea came about six years ago when fashion retailer alan t. moved it sports department into a new building setting costs thirty euros to forty five minutes watching of course is free. as it has to be every saturday we're getting between twenty to thirty

thousand visitors with the numbers like that here and also broke exceeded our wildest expectations. the new building with the wave pool cost thirty five million euros to join more customers and increase revenues the company invested in all sorts of offline activities. it all makes shopping more exciting and online you just sit at home so you don't see these kinds of things. soon they'll be opening a gym here too with high tech equipment a sauna and even altitude training for competitive athletes next year customers will have yet another excuse to hang around after shopping and surfing when the store launches its own open air cinema.

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