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quick reminder now the top stories that we're following for you us president dumb trump has signed an executive order formally reimposing many sanctions on iran the move comes amid mass protests in iran over inflation and shortages many expect will worsen due to the revived measures. and with that you're up to date now on d.w. news but ben falloon has more after sharp break don't go away. on. my first boss like mosul sewing machine. that i come from women are bones by this social model even something as simple as a learning home to write them by said posies and. since i was a little girl i wanted to have both by say the last my home and he took me mr been there. finally they gave up and mentioned by me and by psychos and returns people
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sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than rising i'm biased as no i want to meet those women back home who are bones by the juneteenth and social rooms and inform them of old dead beats is why. my name is the about of the hook and i wore them. washington's new sanctions on iran come into force tomorrow. getting cold feet we talked to a business representative in tehran. and the ukrainian government's failed and see corruption campaign even customs officials and cheating the system.
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and be invisible and let's do business you u.s. sanctions against iran go into effect on tuesday other measures don't directly affects german businesses many are concerned in twenty seven companies export of goods were three billion euros to iran that was an increase of sixteen percent on the year but the level of german exports to iraq was down four percent between january and may of this year according to the german chamber of commerce many german companies a considering leaving their businesses in iran for now to avoid problems with washington and financing business ventures in iran will become more difficult for them the u.s. is threatening banks to do business with tehran with similar measures. as the middle east director of german packaging machines maker multivac amir so today often works weekends to. he's based in the united arab emirates and serves customers in afghanistan pakistan and the gulf states. today a customer from tehran has come to look at
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a machine for packaging fresh dates demand remains high in iran for state of the art equipment. but since washington announced its withdrawal from the around nuclear deal and new sanctions amir so today has been struggling to make money in his native iran getting more difficult because. they don't know how to pay for. and how to support. hopes were high when iran emerged from international isolation three years ago following the signing of the nuclear agreement in business terms of a market with eighty million consumers together with huge demand and potential for a modern infrastructure and production machinery while there have been preliminary talks and very tentative plans on joint ventures so far new international investment has barely materialized european technology is in demand in iranian
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industry but chinese and russian firms are ready to fill any gaps in supply which for multivac would mean a serious loss and business. joins us now as she represents businesses in iran how well positioned on the chinese and russians as as we heard there to fill any gap left by. russian companies already. and it's really a pity because times companies. and everybody. was looking for made in germany. so at the moment a lot of. other germans are really giving up that easily i mean do they have to follow the u.s.
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as late. i mean they don't really give up. they have to wind down as it is. president because you know a lot of touring companies have been in the u.s. and they started business in iran so if they can perfect two markets they have no other choice than to eat iran but they don't need it for ever as they try to stay as far as they can to to build out their business of diverts again. and never totally be for the business hadn't even picked up significantly how's it going to change now what's going to change now i mean what is going to change is that it's informant times it has been challenging to do business in iran but now it has got dangerous because no. company can damage.
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that small. can ever even be sanctioned fence. it's no question if they have the choice i have to they have to leave iran and come november when when the sanctions are tighten even though i mean. what i fear is that there's that business. and at all and at the same time i really hope that on a political level there will be a change and. u.s. politicians find a way to talk to each of us that's really my hope and it is really important to me and i will tell doug from bornstein thank you very much for joining us here and he dealt with. china says it's prepared for
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a long trade war with the united states it follows a series of tweets from u.s. president donald trump praising his trade taffs beijing has published a list of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products in response to washington's threats to impose high judi's on two hundred billion dollars in chinese imports chinese state media lashed out of trouble described his measures as extortion. facebook has set its sights on a new set of data the wall street journal reports that the social network asked several large u.s. banks to share details of financial information about their customers request is likely to be part of its efforts to deepen user engagement and often use services information requests that include transactions and account balances. it was corruption that saw ukrainians take to the streets of the government of victoria more than four years ago free elections followed promises of a better life but a report by the german newspapers you tortured site on reveals how widespread graft
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still is even corrupt customs officials cost the state billions of euros every year . the report says the black sea port of adesa is a hope of corruption many of the containers customs declarations of falsified systems become shoe laces because shoelaces only pay a fraction in customs tariffs the charges are laid bare in documents made available to german. papers are routinely forged many people are involved freight companies customs officers police and even the intelligence service s b u that even though the port was supposed to become a flagship anti corruption project after the my down revolution twenty six year old civil rights activist. played a key role in the protest in the capital kiev. afterward she was put in charge of customs in a desert and was supposed to drain the harbor of corruption she sent the customs
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officers to the us for training the e.u. supplied modern scanners that were able to identify what goods are in the container as well as contraband none of it helped the scanners were vandalized. gave up her job frustrated in her resignation letter she said that the head of the queue of tax office as well as president petro poroshenko and prime minister volodymyr grossman had sabotaged her on to corruption drive so corruption still flourishes on the black sea there's a door to newspaper report estimates the losses to the ukrainian treasury top four billion euros a year in tariffs alone that's twice as much as ukraine hopes to borrow this year from the world bank i.m.f. and e.u. combined. journalist david stern joins us from kiev david just how hard a job is a proving to corruption in ukraine well it's a huge problem of course anecdotally anecdotally i've heard of the last two years
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the problem is actually gotten worse there seems to be corruption throughout the society and as you heard from that report now of course corruption is a problem throughout the entire former soviet union so it's really a post soviet problem but as we heard from the report ukraine had a revolution four years ago and so expectations here are much higher there is the expectation that after the revolution this would be problem number one that they would tackle but at the science right now you have it throughout education health care the courts and as we heard the. customs so really it's the main issue right now in ukraine besides the war what are officials actually doing the ones who are corrupt that is. well the it should be said that ukraine this government has actually done more than any previous
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government but the problem is so great we've seen some progress in reforming the gas sector and there have been four major anti-corruption bodies that have been formed but at the same time there's a question of whether i mean there's still so much to be done and whether president poroshenko and prime minister vladimir growth or grossman actually have the political will to take it all the way to the end to go against the vested interest in the oligarchy who profit from this and so there's a question that he's going if they'll actually undertake it in an election year given also that there's a lot of infighting among these and anti-corruption bodies what about pressure from western creditors couldn't they just turn off the top i mean they don't have to invest their money to well exactly and this is a question that i'm sure a number of people in the west are are asking or in fact i do know that they're asking but obviously they're not turning off the taps yet there is this is
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a means of leverage we have seen a great deal of progress in some cases the ukrainian government has been sort of dragged to it and the pressure that the that the west has brought on them has been the thing that is has made the difference for instance with the anti-corruption court this actually the reforms were introduced thanks to western pressure so it's a very delicate balancing game both within the ukrainian government and with the west at the moment they're not turning off the taps however patience is wearing thin david stern for us on that thank you very much. and i was doing business with a.
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