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the latest on our website that is d. w. dot com and a frame by frame thanks to a company. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if your newspapers when official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantrips and they have problems are always the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and. we can afford to stay silent when it comes
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to the fans of the human scene or microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson and part of the album. is 13 the lucky number for us trade talks with china negotiators meet for the 13th time but most investors and analysts are pessimistic about a breakthrough or given the details. also on the show or india's t plantations exploiting workers british aid organization oxfam thinks so and it's pushing governments and retailers to take action. this is your business report i'm stephen beers in berlin thanks for joining us. u.s. president donald trump says he'll meet with top chinese negotiators on friday as
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the 2 sides enter the 13th round of trade talks hopes are muted for a grand bargain although investors would like to see a reversal of plans u.s. import tariffs scheduled to hit next week and again in december the trade dispute between the world's 2 largest economies has spread uncertainty across the globe and contributed to a larger economic slowdown. and let's go to our financial correspondent in new york he ends quarter for more on this now yes from an investor perspective what exactly does success look like in these trade talks well i mean certainly investors are hoping that we won't see an escalation of trade disputes but if you look at it realistically and at the real economy if you look at the big u.s. corporations they will probably have to live with the uncertainty because china is not going to change their industry strategy overall meaning for example that there
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will be subsidies for chinese called operation and that means a whole lot of uncertainty for the u.s. corporations we have some examples for example from just announced this week that they will pull some of their supply chains out of china so this is not going to change anytime soon no matter how the trade talks will end you know yes the u.s. began this trade war focus not just on the trade deficit but of course on technology theft intellectual property market access are those goals now left by the wayside to focus on things like soybean purchases. yeah it seems that way all we're talking about is that next week we will see not to another round of tariff increases from the u.s. that are planned for next week. yes china might be willing to offer to buy some more soybeans and other cultural products but the big topics the theft of
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intellectual property the support for chinese companies out of beijing all of those issues will probably not change at this point and then briefly how exactly can investors position themselves in such an environment where never really sure where this is going well i mean. daily basis that's what we've seen in the past couple of weeks and that's probably also what we're going to see looking ahead at least for now there is some optimism we heard after the talks here on thursday that the u.s. president donald trump is quoted saying that the talks negotiations have gone nicely so let's wait and see what happens now on friday when it's meeting with the chinese vice and then see if there is at least some good news but unfortunately this topic is going to stick with us for quite some time and leave your corrections
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korda keeping an eye on around 13 of training to create trade negotiations rather from new york thank you. reuters reports that apple c.e.o. tim cook has defended the company's decision to remove a police tracking app used in hong kong cook says the company made the decision after received credible information yeah had been used maliciously to target individual police officers that means that violated hong kong law and thereby broke the app store the app store rules apple has faced criticism for moving the app with some saying it was bowing to pressure from beijing. the new oxfam study sharply criticizes the working conditions on india's t plantations the organization demands the german government hold its companies accountable for human rights violations in their supply chains is an issue that affects not just the producers to be on this plantation in assam is being picked in record time more than half of india's t.v.
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production comes from this region but aid organization oxfam says many of the millions of indians working in the industry do so under appalling conditions around half get ill because of polluted water what small without protective clothing many are exposed to toxic pesticides and the pay is often terrible to look at where the money fatigue gives an indication why only 1.4 percent of the price paid for a packet of assam tea in for example a german supermarket goes to work as in india produces exporters and imports is each take their share and at the other end of the supply chain the retailers and supermarkets make huge profits more than 86 percent of the final price paid for the tea goes to them oxfam interviewed more than $500.00 people in the assam plantations he says well parts of the world enjoy that cake many of the workers
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here going hungry. and let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world german exports fell by more than expected in august declining 1.8 percent from the previous month that's the sharpest drop since april analysts had predicted a fall just one percent following july's slight increase germany's export reliant economy has been struggling to global trade tensions and brags that. japanese carmaker nissan which operates britain's biggest auto factory warns that in a dysphoria lee brags it would mean w t o tariffs of 10 percent for the nation is that would jeopardize the company's entire european business model which is built on 0 tariffs. british billionaire inventor james dyson is scrapping his electric car project his company named after him is best known for making vacuum cleaners but plans to go into the auto industry
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have come up short the project was too expensive dozens of. india has lifted an advisory travel warning for cashmere the delhi government locked down the region in august by stripping its special status instituting curfews and shutting down many telecommunications the region now says it's open to tourists once again with many restrictions still in place that could be a tough sell. the tourist boats once again playa kashmir is famous doll like but trade is. the troops and razor wire roadblocks have largely disappeared but the army is still blocking the communications networks. the tourists weren't leaving on their own the police force them to leave now they're saying the tourists can come back. but there are no facilities for them here there's no internet the phones don't work. and there's no transport
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not to act i don't look up we. visit is slowly filtering back but most businesses and restaurants are still shot that's a blow to the 700000 kashmiris dependent on tourism income there's also a shortage of skilled labor has some 400000 migrant workers have left since the lockdown began the kashmir chamber of commerce and industry estimates india's military lockdown has cost the muslim majority region's economy nearly wanted a half $1000000000.00 in 2 months. over latin america the fires that swept through bolivia and brazil in recent months could hurt the very farmers who might use that land producing the rainfall they depend upon to keep grass is growing and their cattle fed those cattle ranches however those cattle ranchers that is advocate for fewer trees and more pasture but some are thinking differently molly rowe is
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a large landowner and proud cattle baron in the 3rd generation from the back of his mule he rules his gigantic ranch in the brazilian state of power around on the amazon. and yet he's different to other brazilian ranchers he wants to preserve the rain forest. just. this myth that cutting down more will make it grow more is ridiculous instead we have to increase our productivity on the land we already have. the humps of the zebu cattle rise out of the tall grass that maduro has planted for them he fertilize the soil and changes pastures every few days in this way he can feed 4 times as many cattle on the same area as his colleagues it was followed i think the lack of knowledge is one reason why it's so hard to change the way we raise cattle and comfort if you want to improve you have to leave your comfort zone and not many people want to do that for. once to
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convince the other ranchers at a lecture in the city but interest is limited many of his peers are doubtful some even see him as a traitor but today a member of parliament came from the capitol to attend the lecture. most people looked at me like i was a comic book figure but the congressman asked me if i had a copy of the presentation and i said not only that i have a farm that i can show you why don't you just stop by. back on the farm shows us how he creates new forest he plants fast growing trees the wood of which is very valuable and even if he cuts them down for profit in a few years a new piece of rain forest will have been created here in the protective shade of the fast growing trees the natural fars can gradually spread out until then power plants are nutritious type of grass here for his cattle he earns money and at the
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same time he cultivates the biological diversity of the amazon. nobody in the world produces meat in such a unique environment we have to take good care of our forests because it also increases the value of our product. he tells us that in the end an intact rain forest is simply better for business now morrow hopes that his president joe you're both so naro and the other cattle ranchers will come to understand that too. and that's it for me and the business team you can find out more about the stories online at www dot com slash business i'm stephen beardsley thanks for watching.
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