land. the but . this is due to come to you live from berlin the united states escalates its trade dispute which washington imposes new talents and billions of dollars worth of chinese goods as the two countries failed to resolve their differences beijing says it will retaliate what will the impact be on the global economy also coming up. the first results from south africa's election showed that the ruling a.n.c. is heading for its was outcomes in its twenty five years in government. drawing

with the party of nelson mandela. and a right kidney company google for plans to make its debut on wall street we speak to the driver discussed struggling to make make ends meet and i'll skip the company's low wage business model has come to an end of its travel. it's a standoff that could have far reaching negative impacts on the global economy at the stroke of midnight of washington time the united states increased talent's on some two hundred billion dollars of imports from china the move comes as the two sides failed to resolve the dispute over trade over the last few hours investors appear to have taken some parts from the fact that the talks are due to start up

again today. but this has on settle so the was economically this france's finance minister bernard a man said that no one should be in any doubt about the high stakes involved in the dispute have a listen. resample there is no greater threat to world growth to your standard of living to the standard of living of everyone listening to us than a trade war between china and the united states because it means that trade tariffs will go up if you are goods will circulate around the world won't be able to circulate around french goods as easily around the world and jobs will be destroyed trade will destroy jobs in france and in europe and in this area to europe has to unite to resist that. and the. french minister of economy and finance with me in the studio and i'll have stephen beard see my colleague from the news business desk and correspondent muchas building joins me from beijing.

balcombe to both a few welcome to you as a lot is in beijing and let me talk with you though stephen now we can't look at the french a minister had to say that the stakes are very high in this trade dispute washington has imposed these tabs as talks us to continue what is washington try to achieve with these measures i mean in a word they want china to bend to their will right this is a tough negotiations and they want to push them to the brink so they'll agree to their measures you know really they had an ambitious sort of slate that they wanted here the u.s. that it wanted not only to reduce its trade deficit with china but it also wanted to stop china's what it sees as unfair business practices that includes the forced handover of intellectual property from western companies that are doing business there that includes subsidies to chinese businesses that make them even more competitive on the global market and that includes cyber theft it fears that is it appears that these business practices that are really gumming up negotiations right

now that's led trump to deploy these tariffs hikes. and it really speaks to whether china can undertake these measures that would affect their domestic economies so drastically and even if they did would they be enforced but that's another question this isn't the question and that's because that's too much here in beijing what is and what has been and the reaction in china to the imposition of these status and can we expect retaliation. that's exactly what they are announcing they say they want to retaliate beijing wants to retaliate the question is how because china does not import nearly enough goods to find an equivalent answer to these tariffs raised by the u.s. in the past they have tried to to to find some means to to target trumps voter. tariffs on soybeans that hurt.

in the midwest states for example one of them. this time i am not sure whether there are any targeted measures left they might however delay customs formalities clearance or they may investigate american businesses there's also talks about a consumer boycott incited by the government against american goods like i phones we don't know yet beijing is keeping quiet about this they have said they would retaliate but they have not elaborated on that that's even telling too don donald trump described and his comments before you announced the status that people see the u.s. like a piggy bank where everyone is dipping in including china so these measures aimed to punish china but what will be the impact on the u.s. consumer right u.s. consumers will pay more i'm reading maybe in a few months but they will pay more and the reason is these tariffs are hitting so many supplies they include rubber gaskets that consumers that businesses in the

u.s. made to finish their products they include bicycles that consumers outright buy with ten percent tariffs which they were before on these items businesses had the option of either swallowing these costs or passing them on to the consumer or seeking another supplier they often ate the cost with twenty five percent tariffs it's harder and harder to do that when they can't find a new supplier so consumers will see prices go up and when they do find a new supplier that of course hurts china right turning much if you know is there any hope there in beijing that an agreement or a compromise can be found. soonest sat at the critical points are structural points intellectual property rights subsidies to state owned open is market access for foreign companies this seems to be where they cannot reach an agreement especially that what we hear is that they could not agree on a way to enforce them to give the us control over these measures and that is something the chinese government is likely trying to evade so. i am not of course

a prophet i don't know what's going to happen there but at the moment it seems unlikely what might be is some kind of a face saving agreement that does not touch upon these issues but that is only if donald trump comes to the conclusion that he'd better have. any deal than a good deal before the elections the next one's for example if money is the winner in beijing and stephen but beds leave this is this thank you what they much for your perspectives. let me now bring up to date some other stories making news around the world north korean states t.v. has released images showing at least one messiah being launched a day after the country fired two suspected short range missiles this is for the raised tensions in the shaky detour between north and south korea and in negotiations with the u.s.

. military an opposition lawmaker a medical degree has sort of refuge in the italian embassy in caracas after he was stripped office parliamentary immunity is among politicians accused by nicholas government of being involved in an alleged cool attempt by opposition leader guide to last month. to south africa now where the ruling african national congress holds a comfortable lead after the general election there more than two thirds of the votes have now been counted but the tally so far does show that in c. is on course for its worst performance in a national poll and it's twenty five years in power the vote is the first test of public sentiment since president. replaced scandals kitty jacob zuma last year. for more on the election results i'm joined by oddly increase from a cape town in south africa what does this result mean for the a.n.c.

did they anticipate a drop in the supports as results are so far showing. well the number of a.n.c. voters has been declining ever since the elections two thousand and four and of course this is a clear sign that people are not so happy anymore about the performance of the party the party that has been running the country ever since the end of apartheid here they have been promising to change the lives of people nonetheless that the situation is still not good many people still live in poverty unemployment rate is extremely high more than every second young person in the country is unemployed and this is a problem on the other hand we also have to admit that they still hold a comfortable majority the second biggest party the biggest opposition party is thirty five percent under the a.n.c. currently i'm not going to been some complaints about the electorate process was this a free and fair ballot. also

there's this one video that went viral after the elections off a vote washing off the ink on his finger on the finger of the ink that was not supposed to be washable it's all in the sparked a huge debate on social media whether double voting has been taking place some people said that actually made it possible for voters to first go to one polling station cost their vote later on wash the ink from their thumb that they got there and then go to another voting station to cast another vote i from talking to some people here they actually said well this is probably not a big deal even if it might have half and few cases this probably would have not have an impact on the overall results but my colleague christine one hundred talked to others in johannesburg on the streets and they were rather angry about what was going on you still have your thumb can you show it to us some people say that people were able to avoid twice because the in came off no no one to two eyes would do once. i think it was being investigated because of people twice as he does to be investigated so that you couldn't. because no he.

wouldn't put it to. us. so under and from what he was saying and what we heard from christine they appear to have been some irregularities how a south african authorities reacting to these allegations so the police eventually arrested twenty suspects for allegedly double voting opposition party the major opposition party da called for an investigation but today the electoral commission suddenly announced that they don't have any evidence that any double voting took place that again course another debate that started another debate on social media and people are asking the commission now to come up with investigation results and publish them. right and increase in capetown south africa thank you very much. that's being called

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on strike in solidarity with other drivers around the world who are also frustrated by wages and working conditions as the company protest to go public because i know that labor 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 we're barely at the point where it's worthwhile to go out and drive you know some joy have a civil ready been forced to give up wells is a researcher at georgetown university in washington d.c. for the past two years she's been following for drivers in the city and found hoffman below the poverty line that us for some it meant that they would take on longer and longer hours driving sixteen and eighteen hour days rather that meant that they began working six or seven days a week others and up and bankruptcy and ended up in homelessness the research

suggests that the current right hand industry is not sustainable in its current shape despite being a pioneer in the right hailing a con immediately by loses a staggering amount of money even if its drive is not necessarily well paid instead investors will be banking on cuban dry. it is being replaced by driverless vehicles meaning one less expense and that's not yet on the horizon though in the meantime there's a lot of people wanting rights a lot of dissatisfied drivers and no clear road ahead. that report head in a humphrey in washington here's a recap of the top story that we're following feel the united states is impose new talent of some billions of dollars a box of chinese goods the move comes as the two countries free to resolve the differences over trade managing says it for the retaliate talks are said to continue today.

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