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the patients. want to use today have the future. teetotal news dot com africa make a suit against the multimedia. click the tour. the u.s. says it has a signing date for its phase one trade deal with china so why is beijing so tight lipped we'll hear from our correspondent as to china's view of the agreement and how it might approach the negotiations ahead. also on the show kenya has a recycling problem plastic bottles litter the streets even when recyclers are equal for eager for more in their beds. and japan embraces vertical farming we'll tell you where and why. welcome to business africa i'm stephen beers in berlin

good to have you with us. u.s. president donald trump said he'll sign a face one trade deal with china on january the 15th trump tweeted that the deal will be signed at a ceremony at the white house with high level chinese representatives the deal was concluded in december but many of its details have been slow to emerge trump went on to say that he'll go to beijing at a later date or phase 2 talks will begin. there earlier today my colleague monika jones spoke to our taipei correspondent zone one so and asked him what china is saying about that new deal while very different from donald trump china has remained tight lipped on the details with only the day media confirming that a deal had been agreed in principle but the tech needed to be translated to fred and legally squat and we know donald trump is that he wanted to find a trade deal with chinese president xi jinping but until now it's only the top

china negotiator leo hood visiting us for the dining that means a lot if the chinese president xi jinping doesn't show up with fanning thera many because that would mean that china my thing that they made more through to confession this time so they would want to keep the profile as low as possible locally and internationally all right so when does this mean that the u.s. has won the trade war. well monica it's only to face one deals so it's hard to say who wins or loses that key is the thinking around negotiation and we know for the 2nd round go to the show and the u.s. with one china to cancel it. if they on companies but if they aren't enterprises ah the foundations for the chinese communist party and duration so they would try a way to protect them and put chinese officials they think not only the u.s. want to make more china's money but to cut china's economic lifeline in the following talk so we would expect the think around go to be more difficult who has

the upper hand if they're too early to say all right well it's only the 1st of january. thank you so much for your time. so is on hand speaking with my colleague mark jones earlier goal has frozen the assets of is a build those santos the billionaire daughter of the country's former presidents the move comes as part of an anti corruption drive a court in the wand is looking into a legit irregularities involving state companies including oil giants on gold which was run by the santos during the presidency of her father jose eduardo santos isabel dos santos is now considers africa's wealthiest woman after amassing a fortune during her father's nearly 4 decades in power she denies any wrongdoing. the plastic waste is a global problem and of course africa is not exempt to kenya for example plastic bottles commonly ends up on the streets instead of in recycling bins so who's responsible for changing things is that the consumers the companies for the

governments. the gutters of nairobi are clogged with plastic waste but it's not just a problem in kenya's capital everywhere plastic garbage mounting up collecting fill . eventually it ends up in colossal dumps like this one on the outskirts of the city but much of the waste is technically recyclable so it's a surprise to hear a local recycling company complaining about a lack of plastic bottles to process. my propane we need the strain balloting on a. political battle now only a week and good night every time to the top of 780 on my mind. only about a 3rd of the plastic produced in kenya can be recycled most people just dispose of bottles like normal trash which makes it nearly impossible to recycle beverage companies are of course familiar with the problem but they have failed to launch

a simple and efficient deposit system so that people are rewarded for returning plastic instead of just tossing it on the ground environmentalist say the beverage makers are responsible for what disco produce so it's new to us to invest in research and development and develop alternatives to plastics. they need to invest into feeding systems and using systems kenya has already taken a pioneering role in prohibiting plastic bag now activists want to see more action taken to keep plastic bottles from becoming part of the landscape. and for more on this i'm joined by deja vu correspondent joy doreen here in nairobi joy welcome to the program what's the real problem here is it that the plastic can't be recycled or that kenyans aren't recycling it. there's

a problem. of a clear infrastructure when it comes to recycling so opinion does not how. recycling you are structure and that makes it very difficult to sort out most of the rubbish that we have while parenting out at the moment is that small companies i'm contracted or peeved by how schools to collect their trash and this trash is mounted onto trucks and take into a lot of fields or gambling sites and then we have. a tower to sort out the plastics and them to the recycling companies but steel these ways that is recycled of plastics that are recycled or do not make out the time gets most of these recycling companies so they mostly before will be a lot of the attack and recycling. ok so a lot of decentralized recycling efforts going on there have can lawmakers shown any interest in creating that recycling infrastructure that isn't there right now

yes they have to start really the final. use of plastic bags in kenya and they wanted to see how effective this is going to be before they could now in fact and completely buy plastic bottles in the country but this is an initiative that is going to affect the current manufacturers of plastic motors in the country because it's big business and there's going to be a bit of caution cool. to also be the interests of this small businesses but what we're seeing is that kenya as a country is trying to emulate the method with the methodology so countries like south africa that have successfully the sheet and the recycling infrastructure and they're trying to make sure that the do the same thing but that is the sticks and was the last thing in the country. all right joy you're in beer there for us and nairobi thank you. the french

president manuel mccall may not be the most popular man on present streets at the moment his pension reform plan has unleashed a wave of strikes in recent weeks that things look different at station f. in paris that's the start of campus that's home to hundreds of small tech businesses where young entrepreneurs say that france is doing everything right to lure them. paris is trying a fresh approach to startups in this unconventional work space young entrepreneurs are encouraged to think outside the box the 34000 square meter station f. claims to be the world's biggest startup compas with a 1000 firms president emanuel mccall hopes the accelerator will help ours compete with silicon valley. i want them to consider as you get on the course is that it wasn't this was that it was s. and we have a unique situation we have startups in large us european and asian companies shot of the projects right from the start having all of this under one roof is unique.

at this german startup they keep their boxing gloves close in hand but they prefer to leave the actual sporting side to their clients they're working on an online platform for athletes and they say paris is the ideal environment. isn't it or the french government has made it very easy for foreign companies to set up a business here lucky that the french president is young dynamic and committed to start ups so that. the french government wants to your global entrepreneurs with tax breaks and by cutting red tape that's why this is talian start upset up a subsidiary office at the station f compas they help holiday makers find a skipper for sailing trips status and from. anybody to create a company very very quickly. and to start a business actually governments you they want to keep growing and to could be

present on the international scene to do to assure you that. while it still trails san francisco in london station f. is helping paris establish itself as a tech hub. and let's stay in europe where the continent's aircraft manufacturer air bus has over taking over taken boeing to become the world's largest plane maker by deliveries the 1st change the top since 2011 that's according to industry sources airbus exceeded forecast sales to deliver $863.00 aircraft and $29000.00 nearly 8 percent more than the prior year u.s. rival boeing is still hurting from the grounding of its $737.00 max which is expected to continue well into this year this all comes despite air bus cutting its $29000.00 to livery goal in october citing industrial problems. over to japan where traditional farming is threatened by the country's aging

population as well as urban migration from rural areas now vertical farms are popping up across japanese cities many of them in former industrial areas. in this form of factory meat kyoto's 30000 heads of lettuce are growing under out official light with minimal human intervention the vegetable factory uses the latest vertical farming techniques. may sound like science fiction but facilities like this key to meeting rising food demand in expanding cities. and all they can all day they can do called old. we can produce in large quantities and in a stable manner all year round without being affected by climactic temperature changes. which also means comfort for the workers. japan is a pioneer in vertical farming the spread company produces $11000000.00 heads of lettuce per year machines shift the lettuces around the factory to areas with

a light temperature and humidity are ideal for that stage of growth. the process works without soil or pesticide and only a dozen or so humans are employed to collect the lettuce at the end smart agriculture is essential in japan where the average age of a farmer is $67.00 there are a few candidates to replace those dying out. and that's it for me and the business team to check out our website at www dot com slash business and look at facebook and twitter also there i'm stephen bears in berlin it's watching.

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