the be . this news coming to you live from above and the united states escalates its trade dispute with china washington imposes new talents and billions of dollars worth of chinese goods as the two countries phrased to resolve the differences beijing says it will retaliate what will be the impact on the global economy also coming up the first results from south africa's election show that the ruling a.n.c. is heading for its worst outcome and its twenty five years in government what's

gone drunk with the party of nelson mandela. and as dr healing complete hope of progress to make its debut on the wall street please speak to the board drivers who are struggling to make ends meet and ask if the company's low wage business model has come to the end of the road. plus a sneak peek at the world famous inventors the show you focus on one of the most unusual exhibit a monument to europe's refugee crisis and i'll see what august then do the journalists cannot. i don't welcome them with such enough pleasure to have you with us. it's a standoff that could have far reaching and negative consequences for the global economy at the stroke of midnight washington time the united states increased

status 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 hot from the fact that the talks are due to start up again today. but this move has unsettled south the once economically does france's finance minister bruno in there says of the stakes in this dispute a high take 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 it was

a brutal man the french minister of economy and finance with me in the studio now is my colleague stephen beardsley from the business desk and in beijing is correspondent mike is. good to have with a few with us let me start with you stephen we heard what the french minister had to say the stakes in this dispute really high what is the u.s. trying to achieve with these measures given that the trade talks are still continuing and simple wants to bend china to its will and the u.s. probably believes you would imagine that trump sees the u.s. economy and it's strong states and sees leverage there he also sees the state of the chinese economy where economic indicators are really sort of going down performances going down and says ok here is some leverage that i have look you know the aims the u.s. aims in these negotiations were always very very broad rights it wanted on one hand to reduce its trade deficit with china. on the other hand it wanted to stop what it saw as unfair business practices by china that includes subsidizing chinese

subsidizing their own companies which made them unfairly competitive in the marketplace includes the cyber theft of intellectual property and the force handover of intellectual property from firms who are active in china and that's really the sticking point that's really appears to be gumming up these negotiations those are very sensitive issues for china some of these things technological advances are really seen as big on the domestic policy agenda for china it needs to move ahead according to its china twenty twenty five and so it maybe has a tent to enact some of these measures that washington wants some aim to put pressure on china and let me talk too much if in china much yes what have been the reaction from china so find can we expect a retaliate. we can for sure expect a really retaliation that is what they have sat and it's in the launch of coffee into nash of this kind of international trade war what this origination mike looked like is difficult to say they haven't elaborated on that they do not have as many

possibilities to harm the u.s. as the u.s. ties to hamas china because they import less goods from the u.s. so they will have to find other means they might steal a for example customs clearance for some products they might investigate american companies here and they will of course impose some type of spec to what extent we do not know it's all going to see even though when trump was announcing these doubt if he described a situation like the u.s. everyone sees a u.s. like a piggy bank in the dipping it including china this doubt of such a punishing china bid what impact will they have on u.s. consumers and the economy right i mean the u.s. consumers will pay more because of course we know that in globalized economy it's not so simple as everyone is dipping their hands in the u.s. piggy bank we're heavily reliant in the u.s. on goods that come from china and including manufacturing in china as much as mentioned so it will take some time probably a few months but the prices will go up you have to understand that businesses they're importing chinese goods into the u.s.

they only have so many options when it comes to rising tariffs they can either eat the cost they can pass it on to the consumer or they can find another supplier and so in the case when you can't find another supplier then it may be easier when it's ten percent to eat that cost at twenty five percent on all of these goods that is much much more difficult you're talking about everything from rubber gasket soup bicycles so it affects a large range of products consumers are definitely don't see the difference so they're going to feel the pinch in the u.s. what is the what about in beijing what are people saying there how valid are they that this trade dispute is going to have an impact on them. china's economy is still very much reliant on exports so any increase in tariffs will have an impact on people know that there is little public discussion because this is china where we could see where the opinion is leaning leaning the people's opinion but we have seen something in the beginning of the week on monday shares dropped

dramatically in the shanghai stock exchange the sons and stock exchange in hong kong. and they have step allies now but we have we got an insight into the nervousness of the chinese market starting so what both the p.r. thing the stakes in this dispute obviously hike what is building it in beijing and stephen beardsley from a business says thank you both very much for your perspectives are getting out of south africa 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 the a.n.c. is on course what's was before once in a national poll in his twenty five years in government the voting is the fullest testify of that sentiment since president citadel of poza replaced scandal hit jacob zuma. next best and he obviously

john crease joins me now from cape town in south africa didn't want does this result mean for the african national congress did they anticipate a drop in support as a result of a showing so far. front of the south african parliament that has been dominated since the end of apartheid by the a.n.c. but since two thousand and four the number of their voters has been declining and this is the trend we also see in this election as you can clearly see that more and more people are not satisfied with their performance is bestially when it comes to the economy of the country there's the country's going through an economic crisis there's hardly any growth and the unemployment rates are skyrocketing more than every second person in the country is not employed and this is of course frustrating a lot of the young people and this is obviously one of the reasons why they might not have gotten as many votes as they did in past elections non's unless we have to say they still have a comfortable majority and the second strongest party has still thirty five percent

less votes than the a.n.c. now going to have been some complaints about to the electoral process was this a free and fair ballot. see there was a video that emerged on twitter shortly after the elections of a voter who took off the ink from his stump the ink that you got on you get you get on your thumb where after the process of voting and that sparked a huge speculation whether it's possible to double vote to basically just cast a vote in one polling station move to the next one and vote again today there were thirty five smaller parties who walked out of the meeting with the electoral commission demanding a proper audit into these allegations of double voting and mike christine one who has been talking to people in the city of johannesburg about it and they were also quite concerned you still have your income your time can you show it to us some people say that people were able to flee twice because the in came off no no one to two eyes would once and. i think it was being investigated because of people.

see just to be investigated so the. results because no if there are people who have voted. designs. so i'm going to vote christina was saying and what you've been saying that appears to have been some amount of irregularities in these elections how have south african authorities reacted to these allegations. the police arrested about twenty suspects for a legit stoppel voting but the electoral commission said there is no evidence whatsoever that there was any double voting going on so one more people are getting concerned and more and more people are demanding an audit. so what challenges does president siddle was a face non some say in see is a very divided. it certainly is and the

elections were largely a referendum on ramaphosa the question was basically will he get enough votes to have a strong mandate to clean up within his own party remember former president jacob zuma under his leadership there was a lot of corruption in all levels of governance that were rarely addressed it was swept under the carpet and promised to stop this impunity he promised to even go after his own people and now is the time where people are waiting if you will really walk his talk under increasing in capetown south africa thank you very much for your reporting on the south african elections. time now to look at some other stories making news around the bond north korean state t.v. has released images showing at least one being launched to the country five two suspected short range missiles this is for the raised tensions in the shaky good tone between north and south korea and in negotiations with the u.s. . two friends soldiers have been killed while rescuing four hostages in burkina

faso to hunt the hostages for french tourists who disappeared while on a visit to a wildlife reserve cash reserve last week and the two other american and south korean nationals islamic extremists have become increasingly active in book enough aso. a thai activist who was jailed for sharing an unpatched flattering article about thailand's king on facebook has been freed after a royal pardon judgment but a blown up a crowd outside served more than two years behind bars it comes three try activists pressing charges of insulting the monarchy disappeared after reportedly being arrested in vietnam. venezuela opposition a lawmaker america the graziano has refuge in the italian embassy in caracas after he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity he is among politicians accused by president nicolas maduro scotland of being involved in an alleged cooled attempted

by opposition leader one last month of them from the. former us army intelligence analyst chelsea manning has been released from jail manning spend sixty two days in detention on civil contempt charges after refusing to testify to a federal grand jury investigating we keep she's not been served a fresh subpoena against demanding she testify next week. it's being called a milestone for the ride healing industry and the so-called sharing economy overall is set to make its stock market debut today a washington correspondent hena humphrey a match one driver who like many office colleagues is struggling to make ends meet . offshore no move flight there's no shortage of weary travelers eager to jump in the back here at washington's ronald reagan airport right hailing services have never been more into moms but drivers say they're not seeing the benefits of choice

been driver for three years in that time rival service lift he's come on the scene meaning greater competition a few a customer has. used to be relatively easy to just go online you know turn the. 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 tori has more down time than he used to and a 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 the 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 it would be fairly at the point where it's worthwhile to go out

and drive you know some drive a civil ready been forced to give up wells is a researcher at georgetown university in washington d.c. for the post to you he's she's been following for dr is in his city and found hoffman below the poverty line that us for some it meant that they were taking on longer and longer hours driving sixteen and eighteen hour days rather that meant that they began working six seven days a week others and then up in bankruptcy and ended up in homelessness the research suggests that the current ride hailing 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. is being replaced by driverless vehicles meaning one less expense. that's not yet on the horizon in the meantime there's a lot of people wanting rights a lot of dissatisfied drivers and no clear road ahead. the pakistani

government has suspended an anti pull your drive following renewed attacks on health workers there at least three people involved in vaccination programs were killed in the past month in fact since two thousand and twelve almost one hundred have lost their lives many of the attacks have been blamed on fake videos and rumors about polio vaccination spread via social media. reports from the pakistani capital islamabad bodger they left his job as a blue book but last month the father of two was gunned down in northwestern pakistan while trying to convince them to fix their children his family is still. he was my friend a brother a father and the guardian of our family we have lost everything people like this

are the biggest terrorists in the world they threaten and murder people like my brother who only want to protect children from this crippling disease. workers are often targets in pakistan due to conspiracy theories that vaccines are a ploy to sterilize muslim children and the program is a cover for western spice it was a particularly dirty but one female vaccinators and two policemen moderate in just one. so you'd let the if knows the dangers of being a. he nearly died after being shot in karachi while immunizing children in twenty two of despite the risks let they've still goes into communities and speaks to religious leaders so they can help counter the misinformation about the virus. we need connected to and who understand local sensitivities this is essential for people to trust them and accept the fact. you know it's hard to have been made in

reducing the number of cases here from over three hundred in twenty fourteen to just. cut back on is one of the three countries in the world better border remains and and rumors spread via social media are inflaming already existing distrust of the nation. that. this man was arrested after posting a video online telling boys to finda after apparently being immunized it contributed to massive stadia over when thousands of children would rushed to hospital by panicked parents who believed they were being poisoned the government spokesman says this type of scaremongering will not be tolerated and promised new ways to reassure parents will be introduced soon i'm going. to. continue with the negotiations and facebook and have a few conference with facebook management we are working on

a bottom up approach to which we have now we have you focusing on. because it is the face of the program. i'm going to feline for all parents any questions that anyone may have regarding bono vaccine the government would want to question. it's unclear how effective these latest strategies will be but they are delayed for a while did students who grew up without a father the only comfort from his death that the family can now hope for is that one day pakistan will be declared the feet. that. from. your watching the news coming up ahead using to address the never ending sense of crisis in the ones we turn the spotlight on the venue of the ennahda and ask a security detail what this is show is hoping to achieve. but

first it's sport and european football for english teams that battle it out in the finals of the continent's biggest club competitions in the champions league live a full and tottenham hotspur will go head to head for the title and the europa league final will be between arsenal and chelsea the blues on thursday dash the hopes of bundestag aside i'm talking frankfurt but beating them in a penalty shootout the english club took the lead in the first half with a gold from a reuben loftus chicks but frankly it's a new kind of rich level the school off the break with a game tight at the end of extra time the match went to a penalty shoot out chelsea's goalkeeper made two saves to break frankfurt scots the all english final between chelsea and aston will be played in baku. to talk more about all of this is pablo fully anya's from do the obvious still says welcome bob the lovely to see you explain this why i have the kind of the premier league

teams been so dominant in all the competitions for of that month first of all first of all and but it's nice to see a different and competition we've seen lots of. wealthy clubs first and foremost that's what we're talking about here for club spurs liverpool arsenal and chelsea obviously they have big budgets they have big wages that they can offer to players that is very important because they can of course lure those big players from other clubs and we're talking as well about an incredibly competitive league the premier league everyone knows you know so the players face sort of very tough teams based the weekend weekend so comes as no. but we also need to note that this season in both competitions big teams that we're used to seeing performing very well like i mentioned before spanish teams around with barcelona then of course italian joints you've entered then p.s.g. from france and let it go madrid also from spain have underperformed so that combination has permitted these bigger british english sides to go the whole way

now going back to the budget issue if we look at how much money they can actually spend on players this is important to note when you compare it to smaller deeks across europe now they spend for example eighty five million on virgil van dyke. he's the chelsea goalkeeper he cost eighteen million euros and then of course pierre emerick over me and many people will be used to seeing him here in germany he cost over sixty million euros so you know budget plays a big part in all of this so what what does this mean the problem because if these elite teams have such deep pockets to buy all the best bets how can the smaller clubs be well this is one of the big issues now if we look at one team in particular they lost to arsenal but that is the third biggest city in spain it's a big team they bring in many crowds at week in week out and they have a far more modest budget so they're not able to lure those big players in with big

salaries now there's an issue here because you're thinking ok are the richer clubs going to get richer and the poor clubs or the more modest clubs going to become more modest well this is exactly what. coach got the ultimate out said so let's hear from him because it was interesting what he had to say quote get people that any team in the premier league even those in the low part of the table can double bill and his budget or any of the team in the spanish league aside from rio madrid barcelona and atlantic oh that's just how it is. very you go he said of himself you know the big teams there have bigger clubs and it's going to be a bigger budgets. it's difficult for smaller clubs like bought into the app plans by you if i to rejigger a peon tournament's will this help or hinder the more than likely it will hinder them and the idea is that the big clubs are going to be assured of a place and it's going to be more difficult for smaller clubs actually to make it into the competition but once again this has not been this is not something that's

going to happen yet and you a for have actually said that it's very much in its infancy stages as have the big clubs who are reportedly in discussions with us about this so we have to be to see how that pans out fully ennius great to have you with me in the studio and somebody to a good movie from fourth to out of iraq the most important art festival in the world of venice been on it's opening on saturday and this is all that this event will feature works that address a once in turmoil if diet is may you live in interesting times amongst this is highlights is a monument to europe's refugee crisis. the fifty eighth edition of the venice be an olive is 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 police it's. one of the works on display is

a machine presented by chinese artist soon young and pun new tries in vain to clean up a red liquid. artists live in the same world we did they read this there's they respond to things but there are no themes in this business so yes i think art. is social but in a different way the. jurors a room or history or anthropology. and approach is how we experience them. the work that has attracted most attention though is this shipwrecked 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 if you survived being. swiss artist christophe blowhole has installed it for the duration of the b.

and allah in a prominent position in the 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 work is up to us to. develop that message. once again there's plenty food for thought at the venice biennale. you're watching the news here's a recap of the top stories if you're following feel the united states has imposed new talents on billions of dollars worth of chinese goods the move comes as the two countries fail to resolve the differences over trade beijing says it's grilled retaliate talks are set to continue today u.s.

president donald trump has said he is a no rush to complete the deal. and the first results of south africa's election show the ruling african national congress holding a comfortable lead but the tally so far puts the a.n.c. on course for its worst performance in his twenty five years in government. that's a finale i bite.

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