or just you know. couple couple very special to me georgia choose your favorite chroma. place. to. place. blame. this is d. w. news live from berlin the united states escalates its trade disputes with china washington imposes new tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese goods as the two countries fail to resolve that differences beijing says it will retaliate so what will the impact be on the global economy also coming up trouble could be

brewing for the results of south africa's election. there is a video that has gone viral in south africa and that is off a vote to a gentleman who voted in the state why didn't all fit in that closes will mark twain on his staff not the implication of that is if he was able to do that potentially add a state shoot and were able to coach twice all cars from the johannesburg look center of course the foul play. plus does this float your boat it's one of the more unusual exhibits of this year's venice biennale ali i'll show you a monument to europe's migration crisis we'll take a closer look at that and the exhibition. on his mackinnon thanks so much for your company. now the standoff between china and the u.s. over trade has taken

a turn for the worse at the stroke of midnight washington time the u.s. increased tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of imports from china that's an increase from ten to twenty five percent the move comes as the two sides failed to reach an agreement at talks in the u.s. negotiate offset to continue today to try to break the impasse u.s. president donald trump outlined some of the reasons there's been no deal reached so far you know with the piggy bank that everybody steals from including china we've been paying jonah five hundred billion dollars a year for many many years china rebuilt their country because of us i don't blame them i blame our past leadership for allowing this to half of what i'm doing now with china should have happened many years ago not just obama. long before obama say no breakthrough so far my colleague stephen beard flee from d.w.

business is he it's a break this down for us stephen the trade talks are set to continue later on friday and yet tariffs have gone into effect now what is it that washington is trying to make beijing do with these measures basically submit to their will in a sense what they've wanted here has always sort of been a large package from beijing they want them to consume more american goods basically to even that trade deficit between the two countries or to bring it down i should say and they also want promises on things like intellectual property theft which they say chinese commits a regular process a lot of countries say this as a way of increasing its own technological prowess and they also want some action against things like cyber theft and cyber war as well so as you can see. to creasing the trade deficits and taking care of intellectual property guarantees these are very difficult things and where these agreements seem to have broken down or what seems to have sort of sparked this backlash from the us is that the china was that china was starting to suggest that some of these would be hard to enforce

a deal for stability mechanisms they were sort of backing away from what it sounds like and from the beginning analysts had said enforcing things like intellectual property regulations in china cyber theft all this is going to be very difficult data collection from u.s. firms in china that's going to be difficult to enforce and that seems of sort of sprung prompted this ok so what about the repercussions what do these types mean for u.s. consumers for the u.s. economy. consumers will likely see price increases in the coming months it won't be immediate they're not going to go into wal-mart tomorrow and see that their favorite items have increased these tariffs are hitting a range of products everything from bicycle parts to the rubber gasket so some of these are items that consumers will buy directly a lot of them will p. passed on to them by businesses who have already maybe eaten the ten percent tariff that this there was on these products before that twenty five percent more and more of them are going to have to pass along those costs to consumers if they want to see. afloat and so that's what is expected when you see this tariff increase is

that they can't say anymore all right we'll take this one on but now it's going to be the consumers are going to have to take this so it will be interesting to see what their responses and what about retaliation from china what can we expect it'll be interesting to see i mean you can't underestimate them their massive economy and amounts of power but at the same time the u.s. really seems to hold more cards here china's economic indicators are really down and frankly china lies more on the u.s. when it comes to its export economy it needs that main buyer and if the u.s. is going to really start hitting it china is more sensitive frankly to it than the u.s. is to counter-measures ok all right stephen hadley from business thank you so much thank you ron. all right let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world north korean state t.v. has released images showing at least one missile being launched today off of the country fired two suspected short range missiles this is further raised tensions in the unraveling of deterrence between north and south korea under negotiation with the u.s. . venezuelan opposition lawmaker america to graziano has sought refuge

in the italian embassy in caracas off to he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity he's among the politicians accused by the president nicolas maduro but you're one of the government of being involved in an alleged attempt by opposition leader. last month for the. former u.s. army intelligence analyst chelsea manning has been released from jail manning spent sixty two days in detention on civil contempt charges after refusing to testify to a federal grand jury investigating wiki leaks she has now been served a fresh subpoena again demanding she testify next week are you an american traitor and i was an tycoon jeff bezos has announced his rocket company blue origin is sending a spacecraft to the moon the world's richest man says the blue moon lunar lander will be able to transport equipment the u.s. government wants to establish an outpost on the moon by twenty twentieth's and you

can. sort of take to south africa now where the ruling african national congress holds a comfortable lead after the general election then more than two thirds of the votes have now been counted but the tally does show that the a.n.c. is on course for its worst performance in a national poll and its twenty five years in government the vote is the first test of public sentiment since president cyril ramaphosa replaced the scandal hit jacob zuma last year. best. i reports from south africa say some votes as well. able to cost the ballot twice by removing what was supposed to be indelible ink from their hands a number of people have been arrested in the main opposition democratic alliance policy says it wants a review of the outcome on saturday is christian wanda has been has more from johannesburg. we're outside the african national congress is headquarters and while

the results of final results as much as ours that it's pretty clear that the a.n.c. will retain its majority by what margin will only be known on saturday will be expects the final result but that might not happen because there is a video that has gone viral in south africa and that is off a photo of a gentleman who voted in the day wiping off the ink that voters will marked with on his stem now the implication of that is if he was able to do that potentially others did too and were able to float twice now it's a big talking point where the electoral commission has held several briefings addressing questions on the matter from journalists we are downtown johannesburg do you still have your income your thumb can you show to us some people say that people were able to avoid twice because the in came off no no untoward to us what the once and biggest the ok mom joke is just one of many people who say they voted you say and ink is still on the if into and didn't think this much to these allegations up in coming off bats some people think that this is a serious issue that needs to be investigated because it could potentially ma the

final results of the election has to be revisited in know before we finalize the deal of the voting because of it's affecting the results of the voting procedures to be investigated so that we did the corded results because knowing if the people who have voted were going to have to put it to. the results you took the engulfed that wasn't easy yes it was easy do you think that this needs to be investigated i think it must be investigated because of people in. this the biggest opposition party the democratic alliance has called for a full audit off the election results and we don't know that the independent electoral commission has confirmed that about nineteen people were arrested full floating twice. is being called a milestone for the right hailing industry on the so-called sharing economy. is set to make it stock market dead view today shares will be priced at forty five dollars

for the initial public offering the company based in san francisco hopes the i.p.o. right can with an eight billion dollars but ahead of the i.p.o. uber drivers in some u.s. cities have taken to the streets and protest complaining about what they say are working conditions and when doing levels of pay. date of washington correspondent helen humphrey met one driver who like many of his colleagues is struggling to make ends meet she reports some analysts all saying that his business model is not sustainable because it relies on cussing pay even mall for the drivers. off your gnome flight business shortage of weary travelers eager to jump in here at washington's one hundred reagan airport right hailing services have never been more in demand but drivers say they're not seeing the benefits of choice been an eva driver for three years in that time rival service lift he's come on the scene meaning greater competition a few

a customer as it used to be relatively easy to just go online you know turn the up on and go online and know that you would make decent money and now it's having to be more strategic with it in terms of where and when i drive. these days troy has more downtime per shift than he used to and on wednesday he went on strike in solidarity with other drivers around the world who are also frustrated by wages and working conditions as the company prepares to go public i know that wilbur is said in their initial public offering prospectus did they expect to reduce drivers compensation more if they do that i will stop driving because right now it would be fairly at the point where it's worthwhile to go out and dry. you know some dr a civil ready been forced to give up katie wells is

a researcher at georgetown university in washington d.c. for the post to use she's been following for dr is in the city and found hoffman below the poverty line that us for some it meant that they were take on longer and longer hours driving sixteen and eighteen hour days prather that meant that they began working sixty seven days a week others ended up and bankruptcy and ended up in homelessness the research suggests the current right hand it industry is not sustainable in its current shape despite being a pioneer in the right paving a corner me rupa loses a staggering amount of money even if its drive is not necessarily well paid instead investors will be banking on cuban drive is being replaced by driverless vehicles meaning run less expense but. that's not yet on the horizon in the meantime there's a lot of people wanting rides a lot of dissatisfied drive as a no clear road ahead. it's one of the most important festivals in the

world the venice been not only is opening on saturday this year will denies a stay of the event will feature works that address a world and oil its title and you live in interesting times among the see as highlights is a monument to europe's migration crisis. edition of the venice be in our lives called may you live in interesting times that's intended more as a message to visitors than as an all encompassing model for the spectacular art festival featuring works from ninety nations much of it displayed in competing national privileges. one of the works on display is a machine presented by chinese artists soon and. tries in vain to clean up a red liquid. artists. they respond to things but there are no themes in this business so yes i think art

. the social but in a different way. journalism or history to pause you. and approach is how we experience the thrill of. the work that has attracted most attention though is this ship wrecked it was transported to venice by sea the fishing vessel sank off the libyan coast in two thousand and fifteen with more than one thousand refugees on board a few survived the name. swiss artist christophe blowhole has installed it for the duration of the biala in a prominent position in venice harbor. the job of artists is to raise questions about things and to raise questions about how we look at things about the categories we used to order our world and then they

the workers up to us to. develop a message. once again there's plenty food for thought at the been a spin on. it watching the news life from above and up next as south africa awaits the full results of its election we'll take an in-depth look at the life of the country's first president after pasta its health and the now thanks so much for watching. here's what's coming up book honestly she wanted to talk about here one of the w. that is coming take a look at what all that means for the table of course.