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that really stands out to you well i really like julia but i think while my guitar gently weeps is an amazing song george harrison and he wrote a handful of songs for the beatles but they're all great gems and that song in itself is very interesting because it has eric clapton playing the lead guitar a lot on it he's uncredited on the record but he really does make the guitar try and sing all right to debbie's mark as spinner for us thank you so much mark. they make a commitment. they find a solution. they even stronger. africa on the move. stories of both people in a different shaping their nation. and their continent africa on the
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move stories about to move a vision of change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. d.w. singh multimedia series for go. d w dot com africa on the move. going. on decides to oust his chairman. financial. times vision of becoming a high tech manufacturing there is a cap which. the business of dealing with trade barriers trumps tariffs or approving the spanish.
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let's do business and you just did the board it has voted to kick out chairman carlos gone he's been thrown into prison on suspicion of falsifying financial reports the japanese comic his french partner is keeping going on as chief executive naming an interim c.e.o. just yesterday a major rift is emerging between the companies and their alliance and there's a political level of play the french and japanese finance ministers meeting today. the decision was eagerly awaited in tokyo and around the world for our top executives held consultations with their c.e.o. . then it became clear. his position. now expected to be his temporary successor. carlos ghosn has plunged from the plush surroundings of his executive suite to a spartan cell behind the walls of this tokyo jail rumors that nissan management was behind his fall from grace spread from japan to france like wildfire good.
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it's a sort of could it top by nissan those who didn't like him internally to make him. carlos going as one of the most successful auto company bosses of all time in one thousand nine hundred six he began restructuring struggling french car maker reno three years later he engineered the alliance with nissan he soon had this company back on the road to success as well right now holds a forty three percent stake in nissan giving the french a lot of power in the company right through to even appointing the nissan board the japanese company has only a fifteen percent stake in reno leaving it with no effective vote or power and its french partner a complete merger would have cemented position as the weaker partner even though the company is performing better than renault the ousting of gone could signify that the japanese automaker wants to expand its influence and its alliance with
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francis renault. let's go live to frank. but it's often as a correspondent there. is this all a little strange the japanese don't sound like they're getting their way in this alliance they arrest the head of the alliance. well with go and talk of a merger is certainly gone and while it's not quite as easy as just getting in the rest japanese prosecutors. wouldn't hold him for this long if they were on at least looking very deep into this but a couple of things do look somewhat suspicious first of all all of this misconduct hasn't been noticed for so many years very very very strange second of all when the news came out and even before that it was an internal investigation for months but no really seemed very surprised about all this when the news came out or the
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allegations came out on monday also. and then we have the c.e.o. of nissan handpicked successor from going himself and he's really gone ballistic on the legacy of dollars really not had anything good to say about him speaking about too much authority and one person and speaking about the dark side of the golden era so all of that does seem a little bit like power play and in the meat that the french are trying to portray the picture of peaceful list and continuity even though what we're faced with is to avoid. yes they're keeping going as c.e.o. for now putting in an interim c.e.o. but of course they would want continuity for nineteen years almost twenty years this one charismatic person has carried this this company and this alliance really
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between the three and they're very much into a woman and there's a desire for stability here because both sides really profit from that. and this is an entry into the u.s. market it is another company to share or to share research and development costs and production costs of course as well. all of these these companies are intertwined and they would want to see this going forward but with conan gone that's less likely to happen if at all affects them puts thank you very much for the analysis. thailand has transformed itself into one of the biggest order manufacturers in the world several key players that have set up shop want to extend their presence as technology in the automotive sector rapidly advances up a trading of stuff is hard to come by. mercedes benz
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has a long history in thailand the company has been producing cars here since the one nine hundred sixty s. now they've got their eyesight firmly on the future and that means electro mobility mercedes is investing some one hundred million euros here not only to expand production lines but to add a lithium ion battery plant for its plug in hybrid vehicles. hyla needs to modernize to secure its position as a major automotive hub in the region. now we come to a point where. the cost of labor obviously is cheaper in other countries around talent to be a leading production help in the automotive industry that needs now a change into new technology into innovative products and we all know that is clearly the. direction so electric cars high voltage knowledge components and technology that is what needs to be build up. it's part of an
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ambitious plan supported by thailand's military government official promo videos like this one advertise huge infrastructure programs smart cities and breakthrough technologies that are supposed to catapult the country into the twenty first century and increase its competitiveness a large number of incentives aim to also attract high tech investment in the automotive sector. we position ourselves as the heart for. of course what global datsun particularly for green technology production so that's why we are now looking at the next generation ultimate if industry certainly with the new technologies media to. force or even to make sure that the new intern stood up into a. workforce would have the required skills. that could be one of the bottlenecks of the plan at b.m.w. thailand they've set up their own training facility to ensure their apprentices
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meet the company's high quality standards. and they work closely with educational institutions across the country to bring them up to speed it's not always an easy task. so when your cycle that means starting this program we say then technical college and only one get this that if a kid and all. that's the walking witnessed the rest for. their program why because we have to at meet that they are not good enough for. you. that will have to change if thailand's high flying ambitions are to get off the ground the government is aware of this and german automotive companies are helping to transfer knowledge into the country but they also know that they still have a long road ahead. two years into his american first presidency donald trump has up rooted industries around the world european can make is that you are just
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a tariffs just as most chinese farmers are falling victim to the taf i see including americans and spanish olive groves to the spanish farmers have picked olives from these ancient trees for generations but these days nothing is like it used to be it's the first harvest since the united states imposed import tariffs on packed all of us. just about half of spain's olives used to go to the u.s. now exports have fallen to twenty two percent the reason for president trumps tariffs and unfair market advantage as spanish farmers receive e.u. subsidies. we're accused of unfair competition that is selling at below market prices because of the eight spanish farmers received from the european union we are going to demonstrate in court that the aid is legal that it's not unfair and that the competitiveness of spain is due to the high efficiency of our industry.
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allows safety and. in fact the case for punitive damages is shaky all of growers in many countries receive subsidies and they're not subject to tariffs the spanish believe it's all about unwanted competition. the terrorists have been directed only against spain because we are the biggest competitor for black to the u.s. we have thirty three percent of the market and we're increasingly gaining market share with other countries such as italy portugal greece some rocko they only represent eight percent as a whole so the tears have been directed against the biggest rival which is spain. such terrorists would be illegal under w t all rules but that doesn't help spanish farmers right now they are watching a seventy million dollar trade market crumble and the sector is already shedding jobs meanwhile all of growers point to another victim the american consumer.
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is that. americans will keep on buying these are possibly from other countries and possibly they'll be more expensive this will harm the consumer and it will harm us here. and the prices are up in the us whether the green or black delicacies end up on sandwiches pizza. or an upscale bar. i stay in business with you. we've. we've.
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