up here with the president of ramadan it's a period of big business for many people food sales especially sweets all of it and pickles got a special boost at this time. now disease hit avengers and game may be on its way to becoming the biggest grossing film in history but it wasn't quite within last quarter's reporting period so it hasn't helped the entertainment companies latest figures there's these film profits were down on last year when it had two strong movies black panther and the last judged by this year there was only one major blockbuster captain marvel still walt disney reported better than expected second quarter revenue of close to fifteen billion dollars disney is on a mission to turn it into a streaming powerhouse with disney plus with the c.e.o. expects the service to run at a loss for the first five years. shares in german engineering conglomerate siemens have jumped after the group reported study of profits in the

second quarter the results follow its announcement that will it will spin off its power and gas unit the former core division has come under increasing pressure in recent years as many countries move to a new opel energy like wind and solar power the gas and power unit is the companies to these lucrative siemens plans to focus on the digital industries and smart infrastructure as well as its health and mobility lives. and that's it for me and the business team and berlin for more business news and features you can always visit d.w. dot com slash business thanks for watching. what

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from the european parliament here in the heart of brussels. thank you. thank. you hello and welcome to the conference on the debate battle lines are being drawn ahead of the european elections with more than four hundred million people eligible to vote and increasingly it's a europe of stark contrasts last week about a thousand fascist sympathisers gapes to farm salutes and clashed with riot police in milan this information campaigns are said to be running at full tilt and commission president john told her as warned that if nationalist parties on the margins of the right and left take the upper hand it would mean the end of liberal democracy and free society so on issues ranging from migration to rule of law or

security and sovereignty our panelists have plenty to argue about something insulters a dutch m.e.p. and first vice president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties. dominic is a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u. affairs committee's journal line and has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max cry is vice chairman of the f.t. the i'll tell it evil for die client in the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's our panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out very briefly the kind of european future they'd like to see trophy and so can i ask you to start us off

thirty minutes thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of triumph china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while way apple who are actually more powerful sometimes than states and that is why we need a very strong united and unify europe in order to stand up to these forces and to protect the our quality of life our way of life but the second thing i would like to say is just as important this is not just about a strong europe it's also about europe as a community of values and those values are equality equal rights for all and not everybody believes in that and i think this is very much on the ballot on the twenty third to twenty sixth of may and i will be campaigning for equal rights for

gender equality for freedom of conscience for bt i write a europe that is for everybody ok thank you very much you want a united europe you want to strong europe but voter turnout has gone down in every single european parliament elections since they began it's going to be different this time. we don't know i think first of all we see in the polls that support for europe is actually going up and the fact that people are critical is not a bedsit it's a good thing it be it means that people are taking ownership of europe to do that downhill jerry yes we'll see whether that trend will continue and of course the turnout has to go up if we have the right to vote we should use it because that's how we we keep the mock. a life. this is an organization the european parliament has failed time and again to connect to ordinary people bricks it is proof of that and you know i don't think bricks it is proof of that we don't know that yet malice

isn't what breaks it really means is still out because i think you know the reasons why people voted for breaks that are maybe very much connected to the reasons why american people voted for trump and incidentally to turn out if you're in. there for you then you can maybe you can carry out the american turnout at the american elections is not very high either but it's clear that people are facing a choice of the kind of world they want to live in some people would like to go back in time take rights away from people you know end equality and pluralism and free democracy and that is really what's at stake here for a government dominant touching skin kind of europe you would like to see i'd like to see christian europe christian europe as a faith as a law as a culture i'd like to see the europe which was built on the christian values this is who you are this is what i said previously that christianity is our d.n.a.

and it's not about our faith only it's about the ages of all of the previous generations is who we are and from the christianity comes out the whole the whole culture roman law greek philosophers this is this is what was built on christianity so what i don't or and. as a new structure of the society.