trial now. forensics between bits and bytes you know you have the. painting down. the street evidence. this is the chance because justice is about the truth. truth detectives starts and that you are resisting on w. . the german economy has always been a powerhouse for europe but after a record year for employment signs point to a slowdown what does that mean for the labor market especially as more work becomes automated. and spreads it has everyone worried including fisherman who don't know where to fish in the event of a no deal exit of britain from the e.u.

. also on the show or a mobile garion village is attracting throngs of chinese tourists what did they know that you don't know. i'm stephen beardsley in brylin good to have you with us. germany's export economy is the workhorse of europe and the past year it's worth like never before recent jobs figures show that in twenty eighteen more germans were employed than any time since reunification recent economic figures have however been more sobering with exports falling and growth projected to drop so the good days over and as the job market of the future likely to be more difficult. income will continue to rise in twenty nineteen with an average increase of two point eight percent according to estimates by the federal government but consumption will also increase due to more and more people working in germany remains europe's job machine if there's any problem at all it's

the lack of skilled workers the situation has recently deteriorated further in the trades construction and many industrial occupations it often takes months to fill new positions this trend towards an oversupply of jobs is likely to continue despite the global trade conflicts greg said and the weakening economy but workers are already concerned about a few things the competition from machines and the fear of digitalisation and automation the institute of labor economics i.z. a first investigated the situation in europe between one nine hundred ninety nine in two thousand and ten in january the i.z. a published a study. our machines taking our jobs the answer is no new technologies have created three point four two million jobs well destroying some one point six four million jobs the bottom line is one point seven eight million additional jobs.

so a labor market that appears to be in good shape but with question marks in the near term and outright uncertainty over the long term effects of automation we're now joined by terry gregory of the institute of labor economics who has looked into the effects of automation on the european labor market terry the last figure in our report comes from your study is your point here that fears over automation are overblown. well i do think that these fears that have been stressed in the past for many times that they actually have not come true i mean if you look at the economies that have invested a lot of these new technologies you actually see job growth whether the job decline so i really think that the important question is why do we still see so many jobs and that's one of the reasons why we had this study really show that you have a lot of jobs that are destroyed but on the same time you have many jobs being created so that's something that many overlook. and terry your study also showed that you found that the jobs that were created were maybe on one end of the social spectrum and the other ends but that in the middle maybe there's a bit of a gap what does this mean for the social aspects of this what is it mean for middle

class job security for example. right so of course i mean it's i think it's important to stress that i mean we're not heading towards a future without any job so that's that's that's that's that's the point point to make but of course i mean if you in terms of quality of jobs and who are the losers and who are the winners that's of course a very interesting and most very important question and they have to see how how actually jobs are affected by automation so it's really the routine jobs that are disappearing and those are mostly jobs that are very repetitive and so manufacturing jobs also office jobs so the middle class is actually a lot of affected by this and same time you see created for instance in cognitive jobs doctors engineers and so on and it's signed same time also jobs and in the low skilled sector so a lot of food restaurants want to seem kind of like a job market polarization there so inequalities is threatened but i think by some of these technologies and so obvious the question for policymakers going forward

and their you look at automation in the study between one nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand and ten what about the future as technology like machine learning really develops in the near term and in the long term. yes of course i mean that's the critique is often that ok so you look to the past and everything will change in the future i mean also that is not new i mean the threats that you that you can can read out the newspapers and i can say reading and so i think it is helpful to look into the past but if we if we say ok we want to we have to look into the future knowledge that's the court and thing and of course i mean we don't know i mean these new technologies myatt pose a new threat that might do new toss that we have seen before but i think also here i mean take a take for instance agriculture sector i mean we saw it in the idea of really nineteenth century we saw about forty percent of the workers in the in this in the sector and to a three percent and so we've gone to these economic transformations and we actually . these farmers i mean of course there's a lot of chuck structural change but we see still see

a large amount of employment so more questions ahead as things progress terry gregory joining us there from the institute of labor economics is joining us from bonn thank you very much thanks. it's a mixed bag and facebook news today on the positive side the world's largest social network says it saw a nine percent increase in users last year and that growing user base has led to record profits as digital advertisers continue to flock to the network but it's not all good news apple has announced it will be removing a facebook branded research app from its apple store and the app paid teenagers to allow facebook to monitor their usage habits without clearly stating what information was being gathered and facebook has faced bash backlash over the program which both industry observers and american politicians said amounted to quote wiretapping teens and let's talk about let's talk more about the numbers side of this with our frankfurt correspondent paul christiane bret's paul

before these numbers that came out we've been hearing that facebook was struggling to monetize these growing user numbers what are these new net new figures show us. well steve they show us that facebook especially in its core business facebook is doing a lot better than people actually expected facebook has had a really bad year with issues of propagande hacking data security but it all doesn't seem to affect the bottom line logons are actually up especially in europe where they've been stagnating and the revenue in the fourth quarter is up thirty percent compared to the previous year and that's a pretty good analysts and investors were happy the size of the share price rose eleven percent after hours on wall street and some thought these were the most reassuring information the they have gotten from facebook in the past and then briefly recent news that facebook is merging its messaging app with what's app instagram which it also owns what does that mean what could it mean for consumers

well steve if you're worried that they're all going to conflate into one that's not likely to happen but the back ends will connect so it will be easier to message maybe from instagram to or from from what that to facebook that of course is against everything that facebook said it wouldn't do or would do when it instagram and whatsapp and it has broad data security concerns data protection commission really wants to know about this project its concern that data protection in the e.u. will not to be will not be sufficient so even more reason to scrutinize facebook here in europe it sounds like well christiane brits there for us in frankfurt thank you. now staying in europe with two months to go before break that the likelihood is growing that the u.k. will leave the e.u. without a deal and that could threaten the very livelihoods of many on both sides of the channel including fisherman a no deal brags it could lead to

a situation where european vessels would not be able to fish in british waters among the countries that would suffer the most is belgium whose catch mostly comes from those waters. the forty ton troll or senior returns to austin harbor on the belgian coast its cold storage bins full to make a living in these intensely fished waters kept and he and his son have to cover a lot of territory their fishing trip has taken them through the territorial waters of four countries britain was one of them if the specter of a no deal breaks it becomes reality it will pose a serious threat to their jobs. money and i. need to stay outside of twelve miles from the coast of britain amid there are bigger fishing vessels and other boats there's no room for us there. bill jim would suffer most in our deal breaks it as most of its catch comes from british coastal waters also back if that

happens we'll definitely fishing area the size of a thumbnail. to fishermen like sports and son of bricks a deal is crucial it would bring transition time and the chance to negotiate new fishing rights meanwhile in the u.k. the big supermarket chains are stockpiling in case of supply disruptions in the event of a no deal exit on march twenty ninth c.e.o.'s of top supermarkets have warned parliamentarians that a no deal scenario would threaten choice quality and your ability of food and that prices would skyrocket. a mountain village in bulgaria is experiencing a sudden uptick in chinese tourists not just for the scenery the visitors are making something like a pilgrimage and they're searching for one particular thing a strain of bacteria take a look. see

lies in the middle of the bulgarian rideau pea mountain range near the greek border . recently signs in chinese appeared more and more chinese are traveling to this bulgarian mountain and they're all interested in just one thing the now famous lactobacillus bulgaria your great culture book wine. story and sugar of has been living in mom to see for ninety four years now he's famous television teams from bulgaria china and brazil have already interviewed him they all want to know why he's lived so long. we're doing so well here because we eat a lot of young good because the vibe here without cows milk sheep's milk all goats milk i just need the milk and the yogurt made for me to exist that's why i've lived so long.

and that's exactly what the chinese want that's why the states run bright dairies t.v. ads talks about the life prolonging effect of mom to love to see ya get. in the oceans to meet this is cool news she's here. in munch a lot see we meet the dairy farmer a tanna so off he still remembers the first delegation from china eight years ago they took a very close look at how he produces milk and yogurt and asked about the secret of bulgarian york it. has secrets very simple on the one hand the animals feed on the mountain meadows and on the other hand we have a very special breed of cowers which give less milka the much better quality their milk is fatter. and chinese yogurt fans have been coming to the bulgarian retyping mountain range since then following the path of

a long life they know from t.v. commercials. and here's a reminder of what we're following for you. germany's job market is the strongest it's been since reunification but with the economy slowing down and automation speeding up the market is changing. and that's it for me in the business team here in berlin or more you can always visit us on our web site www dot com slash business i'm stephen there's a thanks for watching. but still live in the office will take a closer look at modern culture from. n.p.r. it's a culture on the topic. hey listen up. that's what video game music sounded like thirty years ago. today's tracks take the

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