from london this comes ahead of elections later this month which his party says brings. hundreds of people turned out for anti trump protests and scotland as the u.s. president arrived to spend the weekend at his private golf resort is wrapping up his four day visit to the u.k. before traveling to hell thinking russia's president putin on monday. watching. us and thanks for joining us. on freedom and the whole. world i come from the region is rich in history and talents but so poor in education and opportunity and freedom this makes it especially difficult for independent drugs i see many of the younger promising journalists who are now making names for themselves all over the. song by

a group of them going song by follow some with continue. their experience of freedom in a sense is life experience. you'll care visits but your call come back from. mining business in florida and i work there you know but. at. the effects of the trade can be seen here in the ports of shanghai imported products from the u.s. like meat in soybeans. tariffs of twenty five percent introduced a week a guy causing dramatic price increases and a resulting form and demand. customers are already feeling the effects in the

supermarket. asked of customers looking to buy a car in china right now. comic a tesla was the first u.s. company to announce price hikes for the chinese market with a planned increase of twenty percent. before it's even clear want to impact the sres terrorists will have a global trade the next threat has come from washington. president donald trump has ordered his trade representative. to impose additional g.t.s. on chinese goods worth more than two hundred billion dollars. australia china has reacted to this fresh wave of threats with indignation. infamously lazy us is being a typical bully on trade trying to will take the necessary action to protect our legal rights and i also want to add this is a fight between you need religion and multilateralism protectionism and free trade and power and rules to use that china now intends to lodge

a complaint with the world trade organization and is threatening retaliate retiree . china is also taking steps to minimize damage to its own economy. the ministry of commerce office support for the export companies affected. and china is making efforts to strengthen its trade relationships with other partners. so it's easy to that we will continue to expand economic and trade cooperation with countries along the belton road to come in the first quarter of this year exports to these countries accounted for thirty five percent of phocians total for centuries is about the size of. donald trump has already threatened to impose tariffs on chinese goods worth more than five hundred billion dollars the total sum of last year's imports. there's no end in sight for the trade dispute.

a united front against the u.s. at that meeting and balin german chancellor angela merkel and china's premier league catch young sick note that commitment to free trade principles cooperation is key to emphasized as both exporting powerhouses stand to lose from a looming trade conflict with the united states let's see some others often but often the at and everybody is affected if the principle of multilateralism is questioned and. that's why we need to make opposition clear and ensure access to each other's markets. will knock off. several german industry leaders signed deals worth a total of twenty billion euros with chinese partners. that's an important signal directed at the u.s. for more cooperation and less isolation. together with b.m.w. c.e.o. howard krueger they visited palin's former tempelhof port to see

a demonstration of by dues apollo driving technology. the chinese tech company last opened apology to third parties it's a move will help accelerate development and help it compete with u.s. fans tesla and google project way my. dentist. i'm nothing seeing for yourself what's possible is we went on a little drive together we face made it back in one p.c. dot com just last week german car make a dime said to have been given the go ahead to test autonomous cars equipped with buy to use technology on the streets of beijing that makes it the first known chinese comic to be allowed to do side german companies are still welcome in china which shouldn't be taken for granted in times like these. as you know a lot of german companies hire for subsidiaries both in china and in the united

states and so we are right in the middle of all of this those companies and what reid wants to know is that we have don't have a further escalation. even with the backing of german business leaders they china is a tricky part of the japanese government chinese investment is increasingly disputed in germany as many german companies complain that beijing office less access to china's market the berlin office to chinese companies in germany. at the nato summit in brussels u.s. president donald trump lump us that the north stream to project once again the pipeline will transport russian gas to germany trump says that will make germany politically dependent. in russia and he's not alone in his criticism but some european politicians and energy specialists are also against the project and ukraine stands to lose a lot of money if gas is diverted away from that country. coffee chain starbucks

says it's phasing out plastic straws twenty eight thousand branches plan to switch to environmentally friendly or alternatives by twenty twenty plastic straws a difficult to recycle and up in our oceans of the big companies are also starting to seriously tackle the issue of plastic waste. stuttgart the heart of germany's auto industry and home to most eighty's make a dime is set to introduce a partial driving ban on diesel powered vehicles that will come into effect in early twenty nineteen the ban will affect older diesel cars meeting emissions standards from two thousand and four and. cities like paris london and mexico city are also considering similar measures. technology giant some song has opened the world's largest smartphone factory on the outskirts of new delhi where one hundred twenty million some sound bites will be made each year primarily for the indian market where only a third of the one point three billion residents currently owns a small fine india store

a fourteen percent spike in small french sales last year while most markets in the world are becoming increasingly saturated. workers at the italian comic affiliates have going on strike for a month the reason the one hundred million euro transparent footballer christiane iran now dirtier ventus. italy's are nearly family owned shares in both fear and juventus fear its employees say the owners should invest the money and that was because rather than a football star. football fans have been swarming to gum department store on moscow's red square. they want to buy official world cup much indicts from the fee for shop. i like to buy the ball i like how it looks it's a cool design these are will be some caps are going to. have to vote children for the kids and my family and my friend to worship the one that

mexicans featured but it filled out. the crowds come face a beautiful white elite thirty six people are allowed into this small space at once . demand is high and so were the prices some shots cost over one hundred euros. if that's a bit steep that's a souvenir shop next door that sells russian dolls for just a few euro writers some more affordable football much in dice. the world cup is a shopping spree for some people and the range of stephen is really is astonishing . wherever the ball goes the money comes to. give a chill we've had three times more tourists than usual. the vavasor on the high turnover has only doubled assumes that she would likely because not all customers buy the most expensive items but the motion though or. money somewhere but i guess

. russia is for spy world cup fever and it's been appealing to the russian retail industry a lot of football fans are willing to splash the cash. to bennett miller. many see the world cup as a chance to go to the host nation and they spend money that would lead this time it's russia with. the longer a team is in the competition the better their items sell so the england match and ice might be taking a bit of a kick yet. in southern spain olive trees shape not only the landscape but the economy too. troops decision to include spanish olives in his trade war has been a blow to the people of undiluted syria. and a source of heated discussion even during the world cup. i love maybe that. alongside all the other negative mentions trump has decided to

implement their duties on all of a very harmful to the agriculture under lucy and with you know villages while they were. out of it could be a lot of the i mean. i course it is a co-operative that's been hit especially hard it's spain's biggest olive exporter and the us is its biggest market by far. all its are a very popular product. but since trump introduced his import tariffs sales practically called. fifty people have already lost that job but our gross of the. and the remaining work has a worry to. a free market product they're pretty bad but mostly scared me yeah i'm not sleeping well and i keep wondering what's going to happen to us. because my family and the mortgage depend on my salary so of course it's a big. market though. the u.s.

has accused spain of dumping selling its products too cheaply in the us and our pricing californian olives. trump says he's just hoping american farmers. like. what the u.s. is saying is we will impose tariffs on all products that provide competition to american products. and there are simple reasons why we are competitive we produce more three more healthfully in great quantities you know with mortar right either californians are a little boy and are locally for me i know. these new measures are a threat to the european agricultural policy in general. the u.s. government has criticised e.u. subsidies of enabling spanish farmers to sell below a fab value. french and german agricultural projects could also end up in the firing line. to. see if they're going to put up with the attack on the common

agricultural policy is an attack on a cornerstone of the interview that get uppity trump is looking to blow europe apart with this behavior at the not meet that retro. brussels has already threatened counter measures the trade conflict between the us and europe is entering the next round and that was all we can review. but. reliable data. systems first class system.

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