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your business want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us u.s. president to donald trump is considering an executive order that would bar u.s. companies from using telecommunications equipment make by china's sure way and is e.t.e. it would be the latest step by the trump administration to cut two of china's biggest network equipment companies out of the u.s. market united states alleges that the two companies work at the behest of the chinese government and that their equipment could be used to spy on americans. santa claus came late for markets around the globe but in some regions it did show up eventually asian markets made up some ground following a record shattering rally on wall street where the dow jones gained over a thousand points on wednesday that's a five percent and one of the strongest days for u.s.

stocks in history. as european markets were closed for christmas of course they're back in action now our financial market correspondent ali bads joins us in frankfurt now and only from what i hear the dax suddenly started to the day in negative territory not looking very good what's holding it back. yeah you used the word action i wouldn't describe it that way here and i think the traders are also complaining a little bit about the kind of in between holidays and trading here but what's really gotten them worried and concerned is that roller coaster ride on wednesday this week at the just go up wednesday but it went down on monday and what's filtering through is the upsetting impression that pressure on the fed on the independence of the u.s. central bank is for the moment perhaps a little bit less than it was but if the president continues that way it's going to

be a major concern for the market considering the federal reserve's role in the markets in the economy and worldwide and that's what's concerning people here ok a lot of concern you're mentioning zaf just briefly any chance there for a year end rally. i wouldn't rule it out you can never rule it out especially with what went on in the past days but talking to people here no it's not going to come it was a bad year two thousand and eighteen it still is a traitor says and looking at two thousand one thousand it's not going to be better and i think he's speaking for a lot of people here in the market actually bought in frankfurt thank you so much. well german companies have mixed feelings about business prospects in twenty nineteen their biggest concern is the export sector which could be impacted by the ongoing trade spat between the u.s. and china and of course the upcoming brics and

a survey by the german economic institution which i doubt we will show is that many of the countries trade associations lowered their expectations for twenty nine thousand on the upside to germany's domestic economy is robust and the construction industry is benefiting from it more on the economic outlook and to the drivers behind it i'm joined now by mr hutto director of the cologne based institute for the german economy good to have you with us professor we do according to the federal ministry of economics the german economy will grow only moderately in the coming year the forecast says one point three percent you have a similar view. i share this view of our forecast as one point two that's nearly the same that means that the high dynamic we realized in the last years is fading out and we see this also in the mirror of the business climate the business climate came down during the year two thousand and eighteen or so ray on economic branches makes clear this is all to chew for two thousand and nineteen so the climate is

more depressed than twelve months before what's the reason for this is a geo political or other problems homemade i think the most important to reasons behind the rising uncertainty in international markets on the international trade policy and the future of the multilateral order for these world economy and this has a lot to do with the conflict between the u.s. and china are the trump administration is still a risk and we also see a lot of uncertain risk of risk in europe the brics we don't know what will happen in january we have new discussions between the european commission and italy and also some problems in front so there were the response from international scene arising and there's a most. important for the press climate whenever our own economic situation is uncertain we tend to invest less what what state or german companies and when it comes to investment this is an interesting point when we look in our server or see

that despite of the fact of the depressed climate we see a strong and stable investment activity for the next year as well as an employment this has something to do with the fact that there's some decoupling between the investment to beauty and the promise of one hand and the business climate on the other hand why it's huge is a fact that you have to invest if you have to invest over time to stay in a way to have to be in line with the digital transformation so there's an ongoing need to spite of the business climate to invest and this is what quite is nearly the same result in twelve months ago investment will stay strong what drives the investment is that paps digitalisation. yes it's true you have to you has to invest in as an the company level in different ways for the digital transformation of your business model industry feable known as and as you know the german brand you have to invest in the interaction in the networks in the platforms you will use and you will land on so it's an ongoing challenge and nobody knows exactly what will be the

future on digitization but everybody knows that he has to in west in the infrastructure in the human capital you need for the do the transformation all right mission here to there from the german economic institute thank you so much. venezuela's government has been trying to solve the country's beleaguered economy from printing more money to creating its own crypto currency but with little to no effect and now the government plans to tamper with the country's cocoa business cocoa trade us are a lot. of trade or freddie padrón has had his share of challenges in venezuela has had to deal with highway robberies and kidnapping but now he has another headache the government. going all the governor says he wants to create a company to export if he's the only one that creates a monopoly it would mean a fixed price and that would be devastating for growers there has to be supply and

demand where everyone buys and you sell to the one with the best products. in the drones as truckloads of his cocoa were held by the government and when they were released from eighty seven tons of cocoa worth around one hundred thirty thousand dollars were missing other traders in his region have reportedly had similar experiences in recent months but the government says it only wants to catch the fish at the checkpoints. our aim is to break up the gangs and when we speak with a cull producers they realize that we are speaking the truth a lot of it is just about building trust they were used to a different government that did not get involved they didn't do anything. but the traders are skeptical and some of them now prefer to hold on to the harvest rather than sell it and that means even fewer exports are going as well. the luxury of having a toilet at your home or at least in your community is still

a rarity in many parts of india progress is slow that is why davey took matters into her own hands her mission to bring health and dignity into the villages of which up reddish. the biggest child killer in india is diarrhea it's a result of the country's poorest and it tastes and over half the population has no access to a toilet mary mom. is. very to india's that live side by side in our country one is for the prosperous little while the other consists of villages and urban slums. these are the people who are forced to defra kate in the open. their biggest problem is that they live in squatter settlements over which they have no legal rights consequently they don't invest in their homes because they live in the constant fear of their houses being demolished. so when we

got much out there but i think i'm going to demolish that as a young girl. arrived in the bustling industrial city of khan poor forty years ago conditions they are shocked her and after that. we used to live like them and. there was a tiny pond that everyone used to go to father's doors his everybody ended up going there because there was nowhere else to go. there was a time when no metal way you went you would see feces in the open it was everywhere . clear intolerable plight motivated to start building toilets she raises funds through donations and government subsidies in some cases local citizens even put their own money to build a toilet. two holes need making one here and the other over there. two pipes will pass through each opening one fills up the second one

remains shut. poor rural communities struggle with the same problems as urban slums. talking about my ideas would we should consider ourselves lucky that we have the space here to build toilets and since then even have that space call about he gave you has already built two thousand five hundred toilets at fifty five she's trying to find someone who will continue her life saving task when she no longer can. this is your business update thanks for watching. the bottom. of the to. the book.

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