a tale of tariffs strong and twitter washington issues fresh terrifying ads towards beijing at a time where talks were supposedly going well capturing markets offguard. also on the show the city where more startups are born per capita than any other we take you to tel aviv and israel the site of an ongoing tax profits. and the sharing economy comes to beekeeping well look at a german outback than x.p. farmers to call programmers in search of pollinators. welcome to d.w. business i'm joined on in berlin thank you very much for joining us now trade talks between the u.s. and china appear to be going smoothly for weeks that is until a surprise threat by u.s. president donald trump to ratchet up tariffs on chinese goods this friday and to

impose a fresh round of duties effectively covering all chinese exports markets all over the world were caught off guard. to try conflict between the u.s. and china has lurched from crisis to crisis but even on friday there seem to be grounds for optimism donald trump paled progress in averting a full blown trade war with xi jinping china but the deal itself is going along pretty well i would even say very well we'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks but we're getting close to a very historic monumental deal and if it doesn't happen will be fine too maybe even better. on the same day a strong data showing the u.s. economy powering alone. the unemployment rate fell to three point six percent that's a near fifty year low. these figures gave trump the option to pile pressure on china he took to twitter and announced tariffs on chinese goods would go up to twenty five percent beginning on friday. shares in china plummeted

on the news the blue chip shanghai composite shedding over five percent in beijing chinese officials sought to ease investor nerves. what did you could offer what i can tell you is that the chinese team is preparing to go to the united states for consultation with ten rounds of talks have taken place and positive progress has been made and i think it's imperative that the united states and china work together to achieve mutually beneficial and win win agreements on the basis of mutual interest in you don't. there had been worries that china's chief trade negotiator you hey wouldn't head to washington this week now beijing says he'll go that's a small step forward. yes carter our financial correspondent joins us now from new york now yes wall street had been hearing for weeks that a trade deal was imminent where has it all gone wrong. yeah there were reports here

on monday that donald trump some trade negotiations so reported to him there. was chilly backtracking at the end of the negotiations and all through last week that they would not agreed to a trade deal that would require china to actually change their laws and china obviously is not willing to do so also by end of last week so they have been some speculations that actually the protection of property rights were not part of the deal and we already heard some concerns and criticism in regards to that so those might be some of the reasons why u.s. president donald trump came up with those new threats so more than a few sticking points there but does all this actually mean that a u.s. china trade deal could be in danger and certainly i mean the probability

of a deal to be done by the end of this week was kind of the feeling of wall street and of last week got dimmer but on the other side trade deal is not dead yet so one good sign is that as far as we know now there is still a chinese trade delegation on its way to washington so talks will obviously continue as far as we know now and that might also be a reason why we saw quite a turnaround in the stock market here on monday quite fascinating to see at the when the day started blue chips were down by a good four hundred seventy points and by the end of the session we could basically recover almost all of those so hope is still alive that deal still could be done trade talks but under a changed atmosphere thank you yes carter there with a view from wall street. and tell of if there's one start up for every three

hundred people the highest ratio in the world it's a city that seems to have a hit up on the formula for a successful startup ecosystem one fast growing company tells us how in our next report. a test drive on the streets of tel aviv attached to the roof of this car is a forty imaging radar that could soon become the eyes and the brain of a self driving vehicle there's still a driver on board but the high resolution radar can already recognize every object with an a three hundred meter radius and how fast those objects are moving and where and real time day or night and all weather. the start up army developed the technology and it does not want to waste time r. and d. for software and sensors to enable autonomous driving is relentless because insiders say self driving cars are nearly here me. back seen by

lots we believe next year. and a serious car that you really can buy for your local dealer when you win it three coby marengo is glad he got involved with his startup adventure here in israel. there is if you call system here or invest to accelerate. corporate looking into the can always g.'s and has an innovation center that. actually turns easy. to one of the best places to start the company israel invests vast sums in innovation and it boasts plenty of well educated young people tel aviv is said to have more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world. boulevard is the scenes epicenter. mind space opened here in twenty fourteen back then it was the city's first co-working space now there are several

others they compete for clients by offering perks such as pleasant surroundings and good food startups and israel why does this combination seem to work so well. i think it is rarely way to succeed. in the whole to make sure that we're not just going to small as we are on the map to have a global exposure and we everything that we do. and if things go wrong here failure is seen as a learning experience after which you dust yourself off and keep going i'm loving what i'm doing getting up to work every morning and i'm loving you so i will definitely do it again and again and once the work is finished tel aviv's beach is close by another draw for start ups. more than a million species of plants and animals are likely to be extinct within decades unless their habitats are restored that's what the united nations says in

a new report it warns nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history species loss is accelerating hundreds of times faster than in the past spurred by human activity and climate change among others an increase and forest fires is one example of human influence on ecosystems while some wooded areas through recover the insects that pollinate crops are in great danger. now one creature in particular has scientists concerned the numbers have been shrinking causing worries for global food production in germany farmers are testing a new concept to pollinate their crops the sharing. how many of the apple blossoms in her orchard will be pollinated this year it's a question that fruit farmer sabine adama asks herself time and again because a northern germany as in other places many bees are dying. losing up to forty percent of a colony is

a regular occurrence and those are the bees that you miss now when plants begin flowering whether it's rapeseed or fruit they're just not there. if you. don't man has turned to a new digital be sharing platform for help it brings together beekeepers and farmers on line. the bees that pollinate dull months trees arrive on a truck from the neighboring netherlands she ordered five hundred colonies. and after taking a little while to a climatized they get straight to work. platform operator has assumed responsibility for the hard working insects it would be terrible for the startups image if they came to harm. disease prevention is a big issue of bringing healthy bees plays a central role on the one hand on the other we have close agreements and binding regulations with the farmers to ensure the bees aren't damaged through the improper

use of pesticides that could hurt or destroy them that hasn't happened yet. so far galba has registered over a thousand beekeepers on his platform the bees cost sixty euros per deployment so did they get the job done they. were lucky because our orchard is pretty far away from other orchards like it so we thought about it and decided to take a chance on it to give it a shot and see how things go and so far the cooperation has gone very well we haven't been disappointed. the beekeepers get to keep the honey it's still early days for the be sharing business in germany but there is potential demand for hundreds of thousands of colonies among farmers all over the country these for hire could help improve harvests of all kinds of produce and at

the same time provide their owners with a great source of income. and that's it for me and the business here in berlin thank you very much for watching.

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