benefits from the business. creation. fundamental destruction starvation. selling out of the country don't fear. on september 18th on d w. coincides with the us and its pressure campaign to get squat way 5 g. components the chinese firm is meanwhile set to roll out its new smartphone but without google's android operating system so will buyers go for it. also on the program u.k. is rapidly moving toward a no deal bragg's it and there's talk of a culture of fear in the british government we'll speak to a business expert familiar with just such leadership styles. and cuban fashion start up plan the nice that says it's being copied by one of the engine industry's

biggest names we'll give you the details. this is your business report i'm stephen bears in berlin good to have you with us the u.s. and poland have agreed to cooperate to develop 5 g. technology polish prime minister matteo more events and u.s. vice president and what mike pence signed the deal in warsaw with pence a it would quote ensure the security of digital infrastructure and washington has been warning its allies not to use while way equipment calling it a security threat. meanwhile huawei sets present its latest smartphone the may 30 on september 19th in munich and unlike its other phones this one comes without google's android operating system and without apps like you tube or google maps that after washington banned google from making its technology available to huawei investors will be closely watching just how well the chinese tech giant can sell without a name brand operating system. and for more on this let's go to our financial

correspondent only bods in frankfurt this must put huawei at quite a disadvantage actually to not have google's operating system what do you think yes i think that's a big there's advantage you're right because people want a high quality camera on a quick processor and a bright screen and all the comfort the way hardware offers them they've come a long way big competitor in the market they've gone a pill all the way but they also the consumers need the apps they need the conative of the the maps and they need g.-mail they've become used to that android is an android is a name and that allows them to be connected so i think that it's natural that a lot of people will be moving on to samsung perhaps some people will try to pull but they will less will go with well way in the future there's a media report out in germany today that it's likely to lose the european market well way with the situation i don't know if one can go so far but it's

a bad situation for consumers who have the old way phones up till now with the other technology they can still while way says have all the performance and all the connectivity and load android apps you if they want it briefly every one of today's watching the show down in the westminster regarding brags that what are investors looking for as they watch. they're looking for a decision one way or the other and they're extremely nervous and a decision is really not that great that's looming there a snap election not good news no deal not good news nor would a new government under the leadership of labor leader jeremy corbin be seen as being out of business on unfriendly so not only is the pound tanking it's going down to a 3 year low but also the footsie is losing all right really bogs in frankfurt thank you. and speaking of the u.k.

the british economy is showing further signs of bragg's strain british retailers seeing revenue growth flatlined in august as shoppers cut back on non-essential purchases puts the average pace of sales growth for the past 12 months at a record low 0.4 percent that's the weakest since retailers began collecting data in 1905 the numbers follow a disappointing purchasing managers' index which fell to its lowest level in 7 years. and i'm joined now by megan wright she's professor of leadership and dialogue at holt international business school professor writes the u.k. seems to be heading toward a no deal breaker despite numbers like these and we'll hear more talk of a culture of fear at 10 downing street in terms of leadership style you focus on communication within businesses do you see a problem in the british government. well we've had headlines over the last couple of days that have included the chancellor as media advisor being escorted out from downing street by an armed police officer we have conservative and he's threatened

with the sack if they go against the government tomorrow now my research is in the business context and i look at choices that we have around speaking up or staying silent and one of the questions i ask in open eyes ations in my research is what happens when you speak up round here and recently i had one organization the response to that question was you just sit there now i know so with that response would be the same in british politics at the moment but if it would be then there's quite serious consequences. and when there is such a culture of silence one of the consequences. we focus really on 3 consequences really a firstly if people can't speak cop they're obviously not sharing issues around problems and not highlighting areas of misconduct and then the festa leaders know

about things is usually when it is on the front page of the newspaper for all the wrong reasons and reputations are in taxes so that's one reason 2nd reason is we need people to speak up when we need innovation and ideas and i dog is that the current situation at the moment certainly calls for some of that and i think the 3rd reason that silence is a problem in business but similarly also in politics is that we know that people's opinion knowing that their opinion counts is really linked to ords motivation and then performance we also saw some headlines in the newspaper that talks about civil service motivation being very low at the moment and falling and those things take quite some time to recover from. briefly do you think there's anything the british politicians can learn from business leaders and any special times right now . well in business for quite a few years we've talked about what we call of the context volatile. complex and

i'm big u.s. and i think those full words probably describe bricks that process fairly well at the moment in that kind of context what we call a heroic leadership style which is where certainty is advocated from the top can be quite a gamble. business context when you're faced with this sort of situation and it kind of be that what we call listening leadership where facilitation and mediation skills crucial can be more effective in bringing multiple diverse perspectives together so from a business perspective we would probably say that that kind of leadership style is example megan wright is professor of holt international business school thank you very much. thank you. and staying in the u.k. it's been called the unhealthiest place in britain with high rates of alcoholism

and low life expectancy now the seaside town of blackpool is preparing for life after brags that by working on its resiliency. school can be awful you know so can teachers. and blackpool is well pupils at west cliff primary are very familiar with those sentiments blackwell has one of the highest levels of child poverty in britain as a result many kids like resilience they don't know how to overcome difficulties or take on challenges like john donnelly is teaching them the art of dealing with crises so that they come out stronger a lot they still is just normal everyday ordinary ways of coping sometimes the children don't yet know how to do it resilience research has identified a set of qualities necessary for successful living donley inter-team equipped kids with skills like positive thinking and developing personal responsibility new concepts for many here. it would just be

a lot of mumbai oh well i've learned how to. do it myself and not ask to do it i think it makes me happy that we're getting trained by the residents people in blackpool and another thing is is that we're in blackpool which is really in place. sadly that's not a common view the seaside towns demise began in the 1970 s. when british holiday makers discovered the allure of the mediterranean since then blackpool has been in decline the until now it's time to change the town's image say those behind projects like resilience pathway made of 42 paving stones with thought provoking statements like engage mentors and be brave it's the work of head start a network of schools and local action groups together they're driving blackpool's resilience revolution. they've grown in confidence they believe they have

a purpose and a voice now in the town and a sense of belonging here so that's the biggest thing but we do have some really early findings so we know that approximately 90 percent of young people he was supporting his self harming don't need to go back through crises care it all sounds too good to be true and yet the effects are clear take 12 year old car in for example a self-proclaimed superhero someone who tackles things head on my create my own resilience great box skill. that enable here 17 is understand that what comes in every blackpool is developing courage discovering a sense of hope it won't be the only answer of course but it's certainly a big step towards making life here far more worth living. human fashion firm clandestine or has been one of the island's entrepreneurial success stories since its founding 2015 now says the eye catching slogans that have made its clothes popular are being copy. it has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of

flattery but not when you're a small company dealing with a giant on the left is one of the t. shirts that i've made plan to stay in his name it says actually i meant have. on the right a t. shirt from spanish retail better mazzara it says mentally i'm in havana co-incidence clandestine a co-founder of down here del rio doesn't think so she thinks it's a blatant copy. and we're told it out it's a really serious incident which really affects entrepreneurs small brands and emerging design is again the only thing out of my hand because it really reduces the possible impact that design would have had. as i say you know. it's not the only on can a resemblance to a real have spotted and sours close plunder stina country under construction and black and yellow zara followed up with simply under construction in the same colors

then there was time to steam as the drama is over zara went with delete the drama. the media savvy claimed the stayner has drawn attention desires efforts with another new design it translates as actually little zara you have to stop what i. was drawn to understand as shoppers attention at least if not zara's the company has yet to comment officially until i understand its claims the drama evidently is far from over on this one. and that's it for me in the business team here. let's watch.

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as we've been reporting here on b.w. the far right i'll touch on a t.v. . party the a.f.d. have made significant gains in the 2 local elections just held in germany this also interests us on arts and culture because the a.f.d. have been putting pressure on opera houses and theaters and the like to conform to its agenda for instance recently requesting an opera house to list the nationalities of its employees which many see as a chilling parallel with naziism so artistic people nationwide have been worried. new cultural projects at risk now that the far right if they gained ground and will be more difficult to express criticism in the future we talk to those who are directly affected people working in the cultural scene in brandenburg and saxony for.