the debate over europe's most contentious infrastructure projects heats up the u.s. ambassador to germany threatens european companies with sanctions over russia's north stream to the banks to the british prime minister warns of peril ahead of a key vote the u.k. financial sector is already in trouble. and the detroit motor show loses some of its shine thanks to trump's tribal. i'm going physical and let's do business washington's ambassador to berlin has issued a stock warning to german companies over north stream to its supply of russian gas to europe through germany which as you are now reportedly wrote to several companies involved in the construction of the pipeline reminding them of us on the russian energy sector the u.s. has long opposed the project claiming it undermines european security. threat of sanctions as the media listening but what about the companies involved like the

chemicals giant b.s.f. which wouldn't want to miss out on contracts in the united states like its full run a stream one in the new pipeline will bypass eastern europe around a third of it has been built and its full cost to be up and running by the end of the year let's talk about this with. our financial correspondent in new york who is a what's behind this letter from the u.s. ambassador. there are some factors for consideration venom on dan washington's fear down to russia could increase even more control of europe's energy supply these will play against the usa liquefied natural gas market which basically is natural gas that can be cool to become liquid and shipped abroad in tanks new fracking and drilling technologies have made the us the wall the biggest natural gas producer and now he's also trying to become the top five natural gas exporter with the euro being its biggest potential market by the us for now as it's quite expensive to transport only four percent of the u.s.

you can find not to all gas goes to europe according to some estimates estimates say compared with a fifty nine percent exported to asia changed all when the construction of new european league refined natural gas port terminals gets completed in the near future. hypotheticals there on another topic has a do is what it does wall street think about reports ivanka trump could take over as world bank president. disappointed ben seems that u.s. investors are becoming more and more immune to some of the controversial nominations that could come out of the trump administration some considered that these will not be diverse time and the president has chosen family or people would like of experience two crucial roles especially when it comes to multilateral organizations said that said according to the white house ivanka trump is not a candidate herself but helping with the nomination process as she has worked closely with the world bank leader sleep over the last two years and even if she would aspire to lead the organization. critics even republicans under wallbank

board go to stop that from happening but if they say keep it in the family was it is how to thank you very much a survey by the british business lobby group c.b.i. shows demand for britain's financial services sector has dropped for the first time in five years uncertainty over briggs it was cited as the reason and last week the head of the city of london corporation which runs london's financial district said no deal breaks it can spot a os in the stock markets and cost london up to twelve thousand jobs and a survey from the council young consultancy why says money managers of planning to move one trillion dollars worth of assets from the u.k. to other parts of europe. ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote of the brig's a deal my colleague spoke to stephen phipps and c.e.o. of the british manufacturers organisation the ifs and says that he doesn't see any long term advantage of britain leaving the e.u.

. spent forty years integrating our supply chains together and it's very difficult to try and change course very quickly with the investments we've got so we really need to see a comprehensive agreement that maintains those frictions borders and secondly in common with many other sectors no deal would be a disaster if you can manufacturing we're just not ready to exit on the twenty ninth of march with no arrangements in place particularly around the borders in the exchange of goods and the free movement of people that's absolutely critical for the manufacturing sector in this country. market research group forces says sixty two percent of german businesses want the european central bank to raise interest rates in the navy just some analysts say a hike may not even come this year rates is still at a record low in the euro zone and companies already feel the next financial crisis around the corner breaks it a lack of solidarity and some countries financial policies as the biggest threats to the you right now. then there is the trade war between the world's top to work

on a mates it was terrifying bowling cost sales of putting a damper on this year's detroit motor show it's one of the oldest of its kind some of the big players a giving it a miss this time i should say the reports. shine the hubcaps rev the engines and break out the blonde models the detroit auto show is back. it's still the biggest and for mere auto show in north america but this huge market automakers flock to the motor city every year and put on slickly produced reveals and performances but among the usual heavyweights like toyota and ford with are the germans. audi b.m.w. di miller and porsche are all big names that you won't see at the auto show this year volkswagen was the only german car maker that bother to show up it could be a sign that the germans don't think detroit is worth coming to any more but it's hard to deny that politics also plays a role. here. at folks wagons press conference this year the

emphasis was on investment and job creation in the u.s. . but all of us. c.e.o. habit d.s. even brought the outgoing governor of tennessee on stage to talk about be useful and relationship with middle america. all this in the face of difficult and unresolved economic questions over tariffs and trade. two thousand. the team will be another real challenge for us in these days of all the worries about global politics and economics. markets have been particularly jumpy when it comes to chinese cars in the back and forth over car tariffs g.a.c. was the only chinese manufacturer at the show and maybe this uncertainty that's keeping automakers away those who do choose to show they're putting a brave face on it so i can't speak to the other brands i can speak for itself from

what we have a commitment to the u.s. market and i think being in detroit which is the major auto show makes sense and product is made here makes sense to be here. things are moving slowly at this year's detroit auto show. but at least they're not moving in reverse. some of the chinese car companies also say that the trade war has put them off investments in the u.s. hundreds of flights to and from germany are being canceled this tuesday security personnel in frankfurt germany's biggest hub and some regional airports staging strikes to protest low wages work stoppage will leave several hundred thousand passengers stranded. and first class could get a little full on some cathay pacific flights a glitch in its booking system allowed customers to get first class tickets from a call to portugal for about fifteen hundred dollars instead of the sixteen

thousand usually charged line is looking into how the costly mistake happened but says it will on other tickets. it's nice to show jordan is one of the driest countries on earth in some parts water deliveries only come once a week and the service isn't even reliable but new technology promises to help bring a steady supply to the remotest of areas. abdul rahim waters whose families olive trees every day but. they only get water from the mains on wednesdays so that is when they're always busy stocking up everybody here has a tank on the roof or a cistern in the garden it often doesn't rain here for weeks. the village of is fifty kilometers from the capital amman water from the mains just once a week is standard across jordan when there are problems at the water works it sometimes doesn't show up at all even on wednesdays. water has to be pumped here

from lower lying regions hundreds of kilometers away that takes lots of equipment and energy and it's expensive the country's aging water supply system eats up around fifteen percent of the electricity used in jordan and a lot of the water it transports is lost due to leaks. by some high is an engineer who works here on improving water resource management. he's employed by germany's g. i.z. development agency. a lot of electricity and high is installing new ones that used a third less. for the communities. savings. and.

the new pumps have been flown in and just arrived they cost a quarter of a million euros and were paid for by the development agency. says they're a good investment and good for the environment although jordan is shifting to renewables most of its electricity is still generated by fossil fuels which emit vast amounts of c o two into the atmosphere. the. station. the price of the electricity that powers the waterworks has just jumped by forty percent so pressure is mounting to hike water prices too but with more efficient pumps power consumption will decline. and they should make the water supply more reliable as well.

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