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turkey. conflict president blames washington for the full boycott american products correspondent has the latest on the potential fallout. also on the show hong kong takes measures to clean up its not an electric project that would work throughout asia. how to walk onto your business news update here in berlin turkish president. has warned his country will boycott u.s. products in response to what he calls make terrorism done by the united states friends to trump administration doubling tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum the turkish lira a piece to be pulling back a little bit from record loss after the central bank took a new measures but rising prices are still hurting the people here is more
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president claims the united states has lira as retribution for ankara's detention of an american pastor on espionage and terrorism charges washington had already imposed sanctions on turkey and last week announced plans to double import tariffs on turkish elaman human steel since then the turkish lira has lost a quarter of its value there too and says it's part of a plot by the united states to devalue currencies globally meanwhile russian foreign minister sergei lavrov already predicts consequences for the dollar. i'm sure that this grave abuse of the u.s. dollar as a global reserve currency will result in the eventual demise of its role. well many analysts say that international concerns about the ones economic policies are behind the leader as crash that took its leader speaks of economic terrorism by
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washington and called on his country to boycott u.s. might goods already crowded it it will boycott american electronic products if they have the i phone there is also samsung. you know to one has also renewed a cool for turks to convert their euros and dollars into turkish lira to strengthen the currency meanwhile analysts hope for the central bank to take action to restore confidence in the lira. in new york a financial correspondent has more on that story nice to see you sophie so is adeline's boy cult likely to have any serious a fact in u.s. companies apple for example was one company that he did target not really funny turkey is simply an important enough to american company especially not to vic companies like apple the apple stock did not react at all in fact it was in the green the entire trading session so investors weren't worried
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about this threat in the end the american companies and the american economy and the american president just have more leverage so it is an unequal fight if you want to charm can a flake away were damaged in turkey then the other way around and we saw that last week when he wound up tariffs on steel and aluminum turkey has not been a strong position right now so the american tech companies these two these companies that are a little more than favor raveling basically and the broader market even saw a little rally on tuesday with the stock feigning on strong earning. an equal fight you point out but can things get any worse in this dispute. yes i would say so and the reason for this is the add on is not facing someone here who is actually trying to calm markets by taking a passive or cautious stance on things and says the white house is actually harming
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the already weakened country even more about it threatening more and more sanctions and tariff so the fall of the lira and the turkish economy are just collateral damage trump wants to see the pastor andrew brunson free and until he does not get what he wants in regards to he is going to raise pressure on turkey our very own social months to new york thank you very much. president nicolas maduro says that from now on then as well as chief he will will only be available to people of a special government aid card a so-called fatherland card for years to government of the academically ravaged country has have only subsidized petrol to a voracious black market in oil smuggles to neighboring countries that colombia on the caribbean until now any driver could fill the tank of a small ass-u. the nine thousand times for the price of a copy of a coffee and as well as opposition says the government's new fuel card is
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a tool for controlling people. it was a year ago that germany's second largest ally at the time amber lynn had to file for bankruptcy bridging loan of one hundred fifty million euros in tax payers cash the german government kept the ailing airline aloft for an x. two months critics of that move soon claims to money was just a subsidy to a bolt out air berlin but now airplane administrators say did no one will be repaid o.b. it slowly. it was a tearful farewell at the end of last october the last air berlin flight took off. the one second largest german airline was history after almost forty years unusually the german government had provided a one hundred fifty million euro credit after the insolvency in august of twenty
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seventeen to keep the flights going but quickly it seemed it was doing time not to see the air berlin but so that looked tons of had time to pick the best parts for its subsidiaries german and euro wings without having to take over all of their berlin including its personnel and contract. discount airline ryanair expressed an interest in acquiring air berlin routes and employees but just a short while later c.e.o. michael o'leary said what many air berlin employees were thinking. all we see is a succession of german politicians falling over themselves. to award the air burning to the fans are calling the fans a german champion and therefore because it's a german champion it should. be allowed to take over ninety five percent of the domestic market making it not just a german champion but a german monster who will increase the cost of air travel for millions of germans ticket prices did in fact go up at john's or right after air berlin's last flight
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thousands of air berlin employees faced an uncertain future both easy jet and the lufthansa group bought up air berlin's landing rights in airplanes employees had to apply for new jobs and were given inferior contracts a year after declaring insolvency it looks like taxpayers won't have to foot the bill according to insolvency officials the one hundred fifty million euro state credit can be almost completely paid in full but it will take several years. now one of the side effects of technological change is that our electrical devices become obsolete foster and faster and that again is creating mountains of electronic waste a poison for the environment and it's also expensive to recycle all call has hired a german company to help solve its crippling electronic waste problem and a plant that could serve as a model for other recycling centers in the region. modern robot
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technology in this case it's not being used to produce devices but to dismantle them the hun conquered ministration is paying the berlin company out of a three hundred eighteen million euros over a period of ten years the company has to read the city of its electrical waste. a lot of the material that arises hong kong is exported to third world countries. where it often gets disassembled in a very cold state and that's one of the principal concern we should not be exposed to the white. house and congress not only one of the richest and most consumer friendly cities in the world it's also one of the largest producers of electronic waste every hong kong resident throws away almost twenty kilos of old electrical appliances every year most of it's collected by small businesses some products are resold as used equipment but
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a large part disappears on the international waste market for a long time the metropolis was an important trance shipment center. but that's all about to change every hong kong citizen can have their garbage picked up by alba free of charge the manufacturers have to pay the bill maleo should so supervise the planning and construction of the plant with its one hundred forty employees he's not only had to make sure the garbage was disposed of properly alba must also ensure that electronic tracking makes it possible at all times to trace which devices land where the both take as soon as equipment just discovered that it may not have been on the market in hong kong. for a little but may have been imported. we sorted out immediately and reported to the environmental authority that. their employees can join in at any time via
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a camera the plant is considered to be the most modern in southeast asia and will soon be able to recycle two thirds of hong kong's electrical waste but when it comes to the company this is just the beginning. it was a great opportunity for the german technology to be exported to this region because people recognize electronic waste is a global problem. china has said it was a whole series of new electronic bike facilities japan and korea are looking for an enhancement and right through the rest of the region right down to single pole weather also looking at today nancy whiting wasteland that. most of what remains of the end of hong kong's electrical waste goes back to the factories in the region where the next generation of electrical equipment is produced. all right and that's our business wrap i'll be back tomorrow same time same place thank you so much for watching.
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