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self with t. w.'s interior design channel on you tube. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word published in the book. is in germany to learn german and why not with him it's simple online on your mobile and free to shop for d w z e learning course nikos speak german made easy. caution sets in on credential markets as u.s. negotiators told the trade in china can the top two economies find a way out of a trade war. i take household help those are all the rage as we take a sneak peek at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. and hold it

a week scramble the makers of the scotch whisky fear break that will kill kido day global business. and big fizzle and let's do business it's tense times for traders around the globe what will twenty nine thousand bring could it be the beginning of the end of a trade war that's been rumbling on for almost a year now negotiations to smooth over the u.s. china trade happening now in beijing this is the dispute that saw u.s. president donald trump announce tariffs on chinese steel and before adding several other products later in the year china is america's biggest trading partner and exports more than fifty billion dollars in goods that's a huge amount so far washington is threat to slap tariffs on chinese goods with around two hundred fifty billion dollars china has also retaliated o.b.o. to a smaller scale because the u.s.

exports fuel goods to the country it said it could impose extra duties on goods worth one hundred ten billion dollars the two countries declared a ninety day ceasefire last month the pressure is on to resolve the trade spat before that truce expires at the end of much goal few think is achievable. the u.s. and chinese representatives will need one key quality staying power these trade negotiations are set to be long and difficult nonetheless there's real hope that the trade conflict may finally be brought to an end china has already opted to ease tensions by lifting its ban on imports of u.s. soybeans and suspending extra tariffs on american car as business leaders are expressing cautious optimism we're seeing an acceleration of many of the policies that china is committed to implementing to fall within this ninety day negotiating period indicating that we china is making signals to show that there is opportunity

for progress here. with tumbling markets pressure from agriculture and from industry the conflict is clearly making itself felt in the u.s. the latest example being apple's revised outlook over falling sales. the trade war is hurting big enterprises in the u.s. president trump is facing huge economic pressure and political difficulties at home so compared with the past number of months president trump is now more willing to reach a truce on the trade war if he can get china to make enough compromises. yet despite the bravado china is suffering too as a result of the dispute high import prices and is what trump is doing this all for to change the way beijing does trade. yes but it seems that

china needed the kind of pressure the trump is putting on wraps not the style and not the brutality as some would say by slapping tariffs on and threatening to put tariffs on all of the trade but china before it was very unmovable in certain things like for example respecting intellectual property or opening up its economy opening up its business world to investment without all the strings attached for example to let the chinese look at all the technology that was flowing and so yes it is interested in getting a trade deal but it also has strong inside interests as well and it's a question in these talks whether china will forfeit or will make concessions on some of those inside interests in order to work towards the larger goal of sustaining economic growth as a as a whole it tell me how serious the trumpet ministration is about making progress because the these are quite low level toll. they're low level talks to start with

but you know that's really a good thing because you have the experts who are able to iron out. the kinks in the un even spots and present a workable model to the higher ups and that's again more time in order to allow a coming together and what's unusual is that there's this amount of attention and already pictures coming out of lol of lower level people they're not really low level they're high level people they know their stuff and that's a good thing but pictures of these people coming out and that's not a good thing really at the start of negotiations like this but yes the united states must have an interest you're seeing what for example high tariffs on steel are doing to g.m. which is closing factories in the united states which also displays the president now only if i were investing money in particular industry or even just what king in

a particular sect and why it about my job. when could this all be over i mean is anyone factoring in yet how long this will drag on for. we don't know but you have to hope that whatever time is invested is time well worth invested in when you have a deal it's better than what we have now and all the threats that are out there now but the key to the success of this if you're worrying about a job if i were worrying about a job if the americans are worrying about their jobs when you have a deal how does it stick will the president stick to it in the end will he bounce thanks for your analysis from frank that the consumer electronics show in las vegas will showcase the most recent developments in the takes a hit from tomorrow official intelligence will attract a lot of attention it's being fed into more and more hardware from bill thomas cost use not household opus. this robot gets upset when it can't help with chores.

like folding towels but there's another machine for that just one of the many highlights from the twenty eight hundred consumer electronics show which also featured. and do backflips. artificial intelligence will remain a major focus of this year's c.d.'s in las vegas british firm cambridge consultants is among the more than five thousand exhibitors it's developed to deprave an ai based system for vision the technologies learning how to read blurry images. the machine is essentially creating a new image from scratch purely based on his understanding of what is the real world look like so in a way it's doing something quite similar to our mind's eye where we look at a distorted image through you know kind of glass which might be a pipe but we can kind of construct an arm on what we think the image looks like on the other side the technology would be valuable for driverless cars it could help the vehicles cameras deliver a clear image even when it's raining autonomous cars will also be in the spotlight

at this year's c e s. tech rivals apple and samsung are cooperating on at least one front they've struck a deal that will see i tunes video content made available on samsung smart t.v.'s apple plans to offer more services to reduce its dependence on i phone sales last week and she has plummeted after it lowered its southall try to beat the man for i phones in china go down the deal with the world's biggest t.v. make it could help apple expand its reach. electric comic at tesla as broke ground for its massive shanghai gigafactory its first top plant outside the united states at the ceremony test the boss you know must join the scene has met with no break the billion dollar project it's china's first holy florida and cop plant reflection of beijing's vote to shift to open its automotive market after the trade war with washington which has seen a rise in tariffs on cars important from the ways. britain's impending exit from

the e.u. is hurting cami as they get into the biggest fall in u.k. convert just ration since the financial crisis with uncertainty over break that causing a drop in consumer confidence demand for new vehicles dropped last year by nearly seven percent experts want to risk the future of the local over the industry which employs about eight hundred fifty thousand people sales of diesel cars fell even further following the emissions cheating scandal. is still unresolved terms of the u.k.'s departure from the european union is also troubling makers of scotch whisky a unique croft has grown into a profitable global business twenty seventeen whiskey sales abroad amounted to five billion euros accounting for more than twenty percent of all pritish food exports but still is fear leaving the bloc will rob them of the protected trade moch scotch has within the e.u. . imagine a scottish whisky distillery and it would probably look something like this edra

dollar distillery in the town of pitt luxury in the highlands and to symington has made this business what it is today a small but fine distillery and one of the few in scotland which is independently owned and who is master of the quite a select group of top distillers his traditional production methods are a good selling point but there's more to it than that. i'm a mere custodian so my job is to. certainly. if not leave. the room beth of the world if i live for the next generation. and the attention to detail pays off dollars profits before taxes climbed by four percent to seven point six million euros last year the distillery produces around two hundred thousand liters of whiskey a year that's not that much compared to the big names in the industry but scotch is in demand around the world. our exports is about eighty five percent of our

turnover. he sells about forty two countries around the world europe mainly as the as is a big market for us you know very brokers are very keen like this to let things go smoothly and that's bret's a deal in fact direction is worrying the scottish whiskey industry scotch is still a trademark protected under law however some distillers feel they will lose the protected trademark scotch has within the e.u. . is doing business with you.

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