by their culture the history of the you are. only a promise to. the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle. the result reversed culture. is winning documentary from the forest starts first on w. . asian markets tumble on trade deal while race and weak chinese exports data investors are concerned about the health of the global economy. also on the show its twenty nine thousand 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 in florence they have discovered an unusual technology to remove graffiti from renee sums of money it's deferring interest rate hikes to at least next year. so all in all quite interesting and somewhat subdued let's bring in our financial market correspondent who is standing by for us in frankfurt only both china and the euro zone losing steam is it all down to trade worries. it's not all down just a trade worries but trade is the biggest elephant in the room if you will consider the ramifications i mean there are already higher tariffs in place between china and the u.s. and the u.s. and europe and that's hurting business and also of course all that uncertainty of whether there will be a trade deal between the u.s. and china and there are also you worries looming with the united states with u.s.

president donald trump threatening the e.u. with high auto import tariffs and after if there is a trade till reached between us and china that's the next thing that will cause uncertainty and all this uncertainty is leading to people postponing decisions or not making a purchase in the business world but consumers as well and that contributes to lower numbers in the trade back and forth well the e.c.b. certainly made some decisions but what fact plate into the facts not racing interest rates just yet and more stimulus. not just trade exactly but also the bricks that for example that the session is expected at the end of the month but here also lots of uncertainty and i think the is the be is recognizing that in the press conference yesterday america druggy the president was asked exactly that are you considering such external shocks and he said no we're not considering things that we can't predict but it must be on the e.c.b.

it's mind to be ready and not be cut cut cold by some developments like that also you mentioned the long term ultra cheap loans that everyone here in frankfurt agrees is aimed at the southern europe banks especially the banks from italy to keep them from collapsing in case these cheap loans were withdrawn scheme the so-called troika laundromats is alleged to have shot of billions of euros from russia into the european banking system through a little way may lend the reports are based on leaked documents the scheme is named after the russian banks troika dialog which is alleged to be behind the transfer. now women are still under represented at the top in global employment a situation that has changed very little in the last thirty years and that is 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 behind 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 how often they're getting into employment what their 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 ilo figures show that worldwide women are only in a quarter of top management positions and those who are usually younger and better educated the member colleagues improvement is unlikely without stricter legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality. now linda jackson was the c.e.o. of situation as one of the few women who made it to the very top in the male dominated automotive industry and my colleague on caught up with her at the geneva motor show to learn a thing or two about leadership qualities this jackson you're one of the few women 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 the for you to have to tell them that you are the boss is that something that's not happens to you it doesn't happen anymore i have to say

but it did happen happened very sort of early on in my career but now it doesn't happen anymore i think people probably know me but it 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 your make your impression so yes it did happen but not any. 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 they're all goes well because if you make a mistake that's that's not secure. but i think it's i'm i think you could say it's a positive one in that there are many women but personally i would actually prefer that the world more women because you know this business is you know fifty percent of my customers are women and there is a survey done about couple of years back which said that behind the decision to buy a car eighty percent of those decisions was made by women so they chose the interior cetera et cetera 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 it 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 of playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management say right don't really believe in quotas i believe in encouraging more women and i do my utmost to talk at summits and encourage people in telling about my experience but the problem with coaches is that if you are that you must many people it's so to 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 wanted to fill a quota that sort of denigrates

a little bit mice 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 that'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 projects it's about the whole experience of the customers and why shouldn't women have a part to play in a. good question. they're speaking with situation c.e.o. linda jackson now some call it art 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 laser shop 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 l 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. should have been more. 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 much energy to take them off. 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 on 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 feature. 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. two days after his release from jail in tokyo the mystery of carlos ghosn strange has been solved a top lawyer for the former chairman of nixon said one of golems other lawyers had suggested the disguise of the outfit which included a blue cop and a surgical mask was a failed attempt to have him leave prison after three months on noticed it also threw some international media off who had their cameras on the wrong person and that includes our very own program g.w.

going is facing a new a number of criminal charges from his time at the helm of the automaker and he's now preparing his defense for a trial set to start later this year. that's a business update here in the w. from me and the team at the end as always thanks for keeping us company.

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and welcome along to news from the world of arts and culture is what's up for grabs today. if we take a look at this name the cherry who's touring how fifth album broken politics. and we meet a writer from guyana who's determined to visit every country in the world. 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 happen to the director of the wall so museum for the history of polish jews. the exhibition about the year one thousand 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 force some thirteen thousand polish jews to flee into exile up.