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take you seriously in the world over here's what's coming out women strong contango good. for your smart women smart tormes smart state the legend brain creasing lean dangerous times are for w. for my. good to. meet you off as the u.k. of breaks it's week as a key summit gets underway diplomats say europe is ready to extend the transition period for negotiations. putting on the brakes stat as european colleagues struggle to match new emission standards sales skid and investors' darling the most competitive countries to put your cash in according to the world economic forum get ready for some surprises it's. been physical and let's do business. what's looking

like a messy divorce could be said to get a little sweeter reports europe could be ready to extend the brits transition period as they leave the aim to give them more time to negotiate a new trade deal and bring clarity to a confusing calamity. to have a look into just how the european union works you can head to monaghan in ireland silver hill farm is a piece of living europe. these ducks hatched in northern ireland part of the u.k. then they're brought to the republic of ireland to be fattened and slaughtered and then back over the border in northern ireland they're packed for delivery while every dog crosses the border at least three times during its lifetime sometimes four sometimes five the fight for the border has been there for twenty years a lot of business has built up on the b.s. is of access to both during the troubles but at the border was there like this was a top area to get employment in those possible deployment no one wants to go back

to that's it's not something london wants to return to either but the border between the republic and the north remains a huge point of contention and brags that negotiations feathers are getting ruffled partly because the united kingdom itself is divided on the issue of brags that the complexity of the negotiations are little understood. this culture you think you don't know what's going to happen one day they say that one day they say that you don't know what's going to know about britain what is so confusing nobody knows what's going on somebody told me i explained to me just as mystifying the majority of irish ducks that are eaten in great britain are marketed and billed as london ducks the u.k. is a mass importer of food so they only produce enough to feed sixty percent of the population so forty percent of their food would still have to be imported the price will be increased by thirty percent and on the category that's going to have a massive impact on their or economy you know people's ability to buy food. so

britain had better get all its ducks in a row before march twenty ninth. i asked economist fed not fission what position brits have put businesses in. in a way we don't know yet that's kind of the whole problem they they have put the whole union the whole european union and the u.k. in particular in a situation which is completely unclear and given that this is like the most fundamental change of the union for decades i would want to say it is excruciating that we're still we still don't know what is actually going to happen in some one hundred sixty days so they have put business as well as the whole population of the union in an extremely uncertain situation in an extremely uncertain position and for an extended period of time and for an extended period of time and probably for for a period which will not n.p.a. by the end of march by the end of march next year which is like the official breaks a date but even beyond that date and far beyond that date how does that affect

costs for a company i mean investors have to think long term and any sort of investments when it comes to setting up production facilities or or continuing production because the facilities does take months if not years. what's it mean for businesses right now what are the costs i guess most of the businesses have prepared over the last few years for this situation and this by itself is generating costs because they are stockpiling. inventories they are they are producing pro really just to have it on the right side of the channel the product so this is already producing costs and then there's this whole uncertainty which by itself produces costs because it affects business decisions if you like if you think in this situation the current situation westman decisions about locations of production plants for example they are delayed massively probably and firms just want to wait

until they have a more solid basis for that before those kind of expensive decisions it's not this is u.k. is losing out in many in many cases this is what we hear this is what we hear that . firms are relocating already they are taking production processes from the island back to the mainland of europe we hear that from for from the banking industry in particular that they are opening offices or increasing headcount in the offices in frankfurt or dublin or paris so this is already happening costing the firms and costing the whole market in a way money and in addition these these these days prolonging decisions i guess this is probably the thing that will also cost in the future because it stoltz the whole development of the industries and generates costs over decades not only in the current situation what about tariffs well that's another thing which obviously will might play a role we don't know yet but it might play a role terrorists in the future and it will disrupt if there are disrupt there are

terrorists terrorists it will disrupt production processes we have as we heard in the example just now with the with the chickens there are chains production chains basically going across borders and this is even more so for for industries for example so this will cost and it will cost in the future and of course there's the question of whether or not it's going to be passed on to consumers but we'll see about that head on fish now thank you very much for coming in today thank you. european car sales faulted last month automakers a struggling to pass tough and a new emissions tests fox five and sales in europe fell almost fifty percent compared to last september chrysler and renault saw declines of closer to thirty percent the new worldwide harmonized light vehicle test became mandatory on september the first forcing some manufacturers to put the brakes on the livery while awaiting certification or let's talk about those new rules with all the bots

out frank man so how much of the slump is down to the new emissions test so they. i think pretty well most of it up until september that they did which you could only sell these certified cars the car sales in the european union were up by about two and a half percent almost twelve million vehicles sold so it was humming along some countries in the red like italy and some countries doing very well like spain or germany of the car markets growing there but now of course the car companies are struggling with the time and effort involved to certify these cars and you can't just sort of find one model like for example the gulf of volkswagen or the may gone adreno you have to certify each type of that model with a different engine with a different transmission with different options air conditioning or not the navigation or not the different weights and this over different driving conditions

different speeds so it's an immensely complicated and time consuming issue and that just means that cars don't move a lot while the certification for each of these probably thousands of different types of vehicles is still out there will it's no wonder then that v.w. says it will continue to see effects these months these months but it predicts stronger months to follow is that to mistake. we don't really know as i suspect that is because at some time the testing will be over and then customers will be able to take delivery of cars they order dealers will be able to start selling again and the market was in a good shape before this we see this by the nine months figures january to september and it's not just folks wagon saying that there's an expert in the analyst from eve why a consultant company that specializes this analyst in the automotive industry and he says yes a low until october but then after that it just starts to normalize but he doesn't

for. these next findings may surprise you the world economic forum has released its competition index its closely watched as global investors tried to decide where to put their money next. it's a highly coveted tree that gives one country an edge over another and now thanks to a study by the world economic forum the most competitive economies in the world have been revealed the study's authors looked at a variety of factors including innovation and how dynamic a country's business environment is they were also interested in technological readiness as well as the state of a country's health and education systems. so who came out on top let's take a look at the results. coming in at number one is the world's biggest economy the united states it's good especially high on the business dynamism measure number two might surprise you it singapore a country of just five million people it's defining competitive feature was

openness third prize for competitiveness goes to germany which did especially well in the area of innovation the other top performers were mainly in europe with japan and hong kong standing out in asia. but the report suggests that even top performers should not rest on their laurels while the united states gained a lot of points for its dynamic entrepreneurial culture the study points out that it did relatively badly on other measures like health. health adjusted life expectancy that is the number of years a person can expect to stay healthy is only sixty seven years in the u.s. that's three years below the average of advanced economies. we asked hope is fading from bad and big bank for his thoughts about germany's high ranking. i must say that indeed it is a little surprise that germany is ranked number one in innovation but if you look at the details you find the reason in categories such as patent applications

research institutions and the like in no singer category is germany actually number one but it's always close to the top other countries such as the us may be number one in some categories but they are much more mediocre in other categories so it's the breath of germany that it's pretty good in almost every category that means germany actually ends up number one in innovation although it does not have the most applications and does not have the very best scientific research.

into the conflicts come from seeing the powerful two years ago in the philippines began a war against the drug gangs in which thousands of people. rights activists charge the police with illegal charges which president. i guess this week here in manila this is legal adviser salvador kind of welcome to come to conflicts of. d.w. . national

i'm going to start my night hide your identity. we are scared we are very scared that we have to stay here and you know. like. i did it was dinner. time led to what is the true face of the country look like. freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades political infighting here has ended progress and islamist extremists are gaining more in god you know we call for the rule of law to law islam. democracy and the law are on shaky ground. you've just going to get worse.

there should be. a pretty. cannot. bangladesh the dawn of islamism and exclusive d.w. report starts october eighteenth. two years ago the philippines began a brutal war against the drug gangs in which thousands of people died human rights activists and journalists charged the police with illegal killings charges which president do tatar as vigorously denied my guest this week here in manila is his legal adviser salvador pile-o. is the administration actively sanctioning and even encouraging mud on its own streets.