trade jitters cause markets shiver growing expectations of escalation in the u.s. china trade conflict trigger a sharp sell off on wall street. also on the show and new privacy features take center stage at the first day of google i o. its annual developer conference we go live to our correspondent to get the view from valve view. and the long road to ensuring low emissions logistics just got a little shorter as germany tests and electric cars way for hybrid trucks. welcome to the w. business i'm joined in berlin thank you very much for joining us the international monetary fund has been urging the u.s. and china to set aside their differences on trade christine lagarde the head of the i.m.f. issue the following warning clearly the tensions between the united states and

china are the threat for the world economy markets remain shaken after washington announced plans to more than double tariffs already imposed on two hundred billion dollars in chinese exports the dow dropped more than five hundred points in tuesday trading. and our financial correspondent dan scorches on wall street for us a difficult day on the markets but who's been hardest hit. well pretty much all across the board at some point blue chips were down by as much as six hundred fifty points and for certain you have found one side all the big multinational companies who do quite some business was china among the biggest loser kater piller or boeing just to name a few will but overall there is the sense and fear that if the trade good negotiations should fall apart that the global economy actually will be heard so

also companies that do not do any direct business was china but was other overseas markets are also seeing some pressure as far as we know now on wednesday trade negotiations will continue in washington but what really caused the markets to get so nervous very comments by. who actually announced that terrorists will be increased in on friday this is not set in stone but this is what the speculation is at this moment and that actually put quite some pressure on stocks all over the place market moving news there but not the only bit because the first tech unicorn to go public this year has also posted its earnings report and we're talking about left of course how did it to. the well and those numbers were crucial because we are waiting for the big i.p.o. off over on friday and the numbers cell phone lift were mixed on one side could

increase revenue more than expected to increase the number of active users by a good forty percent so both saw the numbers but they also have huge losses and for the entire year list expects to have losses of at least one billion dollars this is far more than expected sold the first after our reaction after the first them earnings report of lift was a bit mixed a shaky day on wall street thank you carter there for us. google wants more data and more devices in every room of your home to collect that data but at the same time it's see also said the company was concerned about privacy as he took the stage at the company's annual developer conference in mountain view california should be unveiled some of google's latest hardware and software offerings including a new smart home with a camera. updates for google's

a voice assistant and new privacy tools which he said would give people more control over how people track them. our mission now is washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon joins us now from the iowa developer conference good to see you alexandra now you've been listening to the presentation there seem to be a thousand product updates what stood out for you. actually two things i would say first of all the advanced google lance in google search the tool is not only helping you know to search for things you need but it also helping you place them in your place like for example when you're looking for shoes you can not only have a look at them but you can also place them in the your room to see if they match with the rest of your clothes and of a tool with google lens that when you put the camera on the sign a text or a document google ends can translate that takes into language and it can also read

it out loud and that's of course very help for people who cannot read or have problems with reading another thing that i found quite amazing what the next generation of the google assistants that is according to google ten times faster and now better and it helps you navigate through different apps and you don't even have to say hey google anymore. fascinating developments there but this isn't just a chance for google to present hardware in products but it's also an opportunity for google to tell the world where it's going so what do you think of the message that they've sent so far you know as you can imagine the message chia was so far very pose a tive ph i told the crowd that there are moving from a company that helps you find to a company that helps you to get things done and that is describing very well what

we have since so far seen so far here google is determined to keep growing so they are seeking new areas to disrupt to keep this growth thank you alexandra phenomena is covering google developer conference for us. now loud diesel guzzling polluting trucks are a common sight on german roads and their numbers are only increasing but a solution might be in sight germany has just opened its first electric highway for hybrid trucks testing the technology on both sides of a five kilometer stretch south of frankfurt the ear highway allows trucks to draw electric power from overhead cables it's the first such test on a public road in germany and will run until twenty twenty two l. here's a look at the new hybrid trucks that are operating along the test route. for andreas pettersen electric trucks are nothing new he works for the swedish manufacturer scania which has been developing in building electric trucks for

a number of years this new model gets its power from overhead contact lines using a pantograph. the silence listen to friends. when you turn off the internal combustion engine and go electric. you still have a little noise from the tires of course but you have no vibration and no sign sound from the days of that. there are five kilometers of overhead contract lines in each direction on mistress of the out obama with tests on the way in northern and southern germany. this is standardize the highway of all that is the same all over the height is the same so this truck can also go on the street is broke and they can also go on the road say i'm. about to get them back oh well connected to the overhead lines a truck battery charges so it needs much less battery volume than a purely battery trip in each truck. the battery is physical

sizes from here to here and about sixty centimeters deep but the rest of the box is there cooling and power electronics to keep the battery cool or warm depending on the weather outside in a few weeks five logistics companies will start delivering goods via the highway the overhead line will save companies time. to move the end here i have the possibility to load the view and during operation i can make my delivery pick up drive back to the loading location and can load again at the same time basically if you do it right the battery is never empty and you never need to plug in the vehicles battery or refuel diesel between trips like i need to that's a huge advantage and it's then just pull in smoke. dozens of these important electoral trucks running off the overhead contract lines are quiet and environmentally friendly but they're only one element in finding alternatives to

fossil fuels. one of the strictest business cultures in the world seems to be loosening up a little with a slight nudge from the government a state led initiative in japan is pushing for a more relaxed dress code in the office although the reason might not be what you would expect take a look. through one of those flowery casual shirts doing in a japanese government office no blazers wear the ties open necked polo shirts and why is that worker using a fan when she should be enjoying air conditioning this is not the japan of suited business women and buttoned down salaryman that we are used to. in a rare sight in tokyo's district where the government offices are located we can see men arriving for work without neckties or jackets it's all to do with qubit is the japanese government come pain to promote energy conservation in the workplace

by allowing workers to dress more casually and turn the office air conditioners down. it's a significant day in japan as it's the first official working day of the reign of japanese emperor naruhito in organizing the railway era the new emperor also went into the office for his official duties. the king my stuff it was hot during the holidays so i dressed lightly today my sight is the only iraq i know so i'm looking forward to the new period. normally the japanese office environment is a formal stuffy one but in two thousand and five in an effort to combat global warming japan introduced an initiative to cut household greenhouse gases by forty percent. at the environment ministry windows were open and workers were dressing down. and that's it for me and the business team and berlin for more business news and futures you can always go to d.w.

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