women. more strange. the female superhero age. limit in one hundred to deal with these women are celebrating international women's day and why the big do you should by no means missed out on were increasingly dangerous numerous times. buried from our. asian markets tumbled on trade deal worries out and weak chinese exports data investors are concerned about the health of the global economy. also on the show it's twenty nineteen and women are still vastly under represented in company boardrooms worldwide we get some advice from one of the few women c.e.o.'s in the automotive sector. and it's in the fights graffiti it is historic cities using an infra red laser wand. and long welcome to do

business and when it jones in berlin good to have you with us starting in asia west oxtail sharply today after shockingly weak exports data from china the government in beijing reported that exports in february tumbled more than twenty percent from a year earlier now that's well below forecasts investors see the figure as a major sign of a global economic slowdown analysts however cautioned that the timing of the lunar new year holiday makes. butts of the scale has an impact on the scale of the mist was alarming in tokyo the nikkei index lost more than two percent in hong kong the main index the honks saying fell one point five percent. so a lot of stocks in asia heading south let's bring in our financial market correspondent in frankfurt. powerhouse china losing steam fast it seems.

yes and not only on the export side but also on the import side the imports not going down by as much as the exports that at least a bit of could news for those exporting things to china but it surely is a signal that should set off alarm bells round the world because basically everyone depends on china to be a powerhouse for the world economy alongside with the u.s. of course and alongside with a couple of european nations and the chinese government is doing everything it can to buck the trend to to help it turn around it's pouring money into the chinese economy like anything but that's a dangerous thing too because in the long run that might be financially unsustainable and compound the problem so people are worried the only that's a pink lining in the thing is that thing can still donald trump or trade surplus also shrink considerably indeed now then here in europe things are also somewhat slow with the european central bank has lowered its eurozone growth forecast this

year and twenty twenty easy president mario draghi said he expected just one point one percent expansion this is down sharply from the bank's december prediction of one point seven percent the bank also decided to launch a fresh round of cheap loans to bolster the struggling eurozone economy it's deferring interest rate hikes to at least next yeah so we're tending to only bought in france the most in his no interest rate hike inside just yet how is that going down way you are. it's gone down terribly you know i was here when the drugget first started speaking yesterday and the markets went up the euro went down of course immediately but then the markets so more and more became spooked when they when they heard how dour the message was how somber the message was that mario draghi was giving you a negative on the economy the e.c.b. is that's the background for the surprisingly loose monetary policy i'll interpret

that for the generous amount of support that it's going to be giving not only banks and not only businesses but also countries like italy because the credit you mentioned that's aimed mainly at southern european banks especially italian banks people here in frankfurt say and that's troubling signal that the e.c.b. can't get out of this crisis mode. in frankfurt thank you so much. prosecutors in the netherlands are said to be investigating dutch bank i n g after reports connecting it to a massive money laundering scheme out of russia some of europe's biggest banks have been linked to the scheme the so-called troika laundromats is alleged to have channeled to billions of euros from russia into the european banking system through a list away in lender the reports are based on the leaked documents the scheme is named after the russian bank troika dialog which is alleged to be behind the

transference. now hold on women are still under represented at the top in the global employment situation that has changed very little in the last thirty years as according to a new report by the united nations international labor organization published for international women's day the report goes on saying that while a future in which women will no longer lack of men is within reach it will take a quantum leap to get their. women still have a harder time than men when it comes to finding a job a worldwide phenomenon with very few exceptions and they don't only face hardship when it comes to getting ahead in technical professions or management a major hurdle for women is motherhood an international labor organization study says women with very young children have the worst chances of finding a job. if we look at the motherhood employment penalty

so the difference between women with children with out children kind of how often they're getting into employment where the employment rate is that gap is actually increasing and over the past ten years has increased by almost forty percent globally and this should really concern us so if we don't want to reproduce the inequalities of the past and we want a future of work that is truly gender equal we will have to make major changes and we'll have to make them now. the oil. figures show that worldwide women are only in a quarter of top management positions and that those who are usually younger and better educated than their male colleagues improvement is unlikely without stricter legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality. now linda jackson is the c.e.o. of situation and she is one of the few women who made it to the very top in the male dominated automotive industry my colleagues and allow caught up with her at the geneva motor show to learn

a thing or two about female leadership qualities. liz jackson you're one of the few women c.e.o.'s in the automotive industry now i was reading an anecdote about you where you related that very often you would go to a meeting and of the delegates would not would want to wait for the boss before starting the meeting all only for you to have to tell them that you were the boss is that something that still happens to you it doesn't happen anymore i have to say but it did happen happened very sort of early on in my curia but now it doesn't happen anymore i think people probably know me empathy didn't bother me because at the end of the day when she say you're the boss and then you very credible you can make you make your impression so but yes it did happen but not anymore. now would you say there are certain advantages to being a woman executive in a very male dominated industry but i suppose the obvious advantage is that because there aren't very many of you people remember you so if you make a good impression that all goes well because if you make a mistake that starts not seekers but i think it's some i think you could say it's

a positive one in that there are many women but personally i would actually prefer that the more women because you know this business is you know fifty percent of my customers are women and there was a survey done oh about couple of years back which said that behind the decision to buy a car that eighty percent of those decisions was made by women so they chose the interior such etc so it's very important that we get more women into the industry and i you know i want to try and encourage more people you know even within my team. you know my communications director is a female the lady that decides the design of that decides what the material in the colors are of my vehicles inside is a woman so why can't we have more women making a point about what we should have with our cars we don't want to make female cars but we want to make cars for everybody and i think women have a really important part to play. and how do we get women to playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management to say well i don't really believe in

quotas i believe in encouraging more women and i do my utmost to. summits and encourage people to tell him about my experience but the problem with quotes is that if you have it you must many people it's sort of senior level if you're a woman if you want to be recognized that you got to that level because of your ability to do the job and if somebody said oh linda you got to that role because we want you to fill a quota that sort of denigrates a little bit my my standing so this is why i'm against quotas but obviously i'm really really encouraging more women to be in the in the industry and to be able to have more women and to make it more obvious i think this big perception is that the automotive industry is just about engineers and of course it's very important part but there's a whole other range now because you know when you build an automotive brand it's not just about the protests it's about the whole experience of the customers why should women have a part to play. why indeed one of them along there speaking with situ and c.e.o. linda jackson now some call it arts others just vandalism every year cities around

the world spend millions removing graffiti it's a tedious and labor intensive process now an italian company has had a laser sharp solution being put to the test in florence. the end and for ever no more. and this valentine's day message mercilessly every from history. the tool of choice is a powerful laser that uses light to selectively remove the paints commonly used in graffiti it's the brainchild of al n a high tech industrial group based in the region of tuscany in central italy and now it's being donated to volunteers who clean up one of the most beautiful and historical cities in the world florence. i'd like young people to see how little time they've spent doing these tags leaving

their initials and messages and how long we need how the. much energy to take the more. the creators of the graffiti commando actually specialize in medical lasers but their experience developing precision based devices has come in useful in tackling cleaning and restoration. damage the surface layer of the monument isn't damage in the process this type of laser has really low energy pulsations and high frequency repetitions. that means that it can work on all colors without causing any damage or putting the surface at risk of future. but the innovation comes at a pretty steep price the device cost seventy eight thousand dollars. just as well then that the city of florence got it as a gift. a blockbuster video rental store in the u.s.

state of oregon a six to become the world's last of the once popular franchise with the closure of a blockbuster near perth australia at the end of this month the store in the city of bend will be the sole survivor at its peak in two thousand and four there were more than nine thousand blockbuster stores globally renting out movies and video games competition from streaming services like netflix and video rental kiosks led to the demise of the chain. memories that's your business update here on d w for me in the team and berlin thanks for keeping us company.

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but we begin in poland where the government is increasingly putting pressure on museums that deal with polish history everything considered on patry all take everything unheroic is swept under the carpet the governing law and justice party don't want to hear about polish anti semites and nazi collaborators and those who don't agree with this policy get sacked and not hatton's of the director of the warsaw museum for the history of polish jews the exhibition about the year nine hundred sixty eight sparked a new low in relations part of it showed an anti semitic campaign in what was then soviet controlled poland it triggered student protests and forced some thirteen thousand polish jews to flee into exile. in the exit be.