terry voters again that poll was also taken before these stories came to light so will this all of this be the knockout punch that takes him down in november all observers have watched him dodge crisis after crisis in the past as a candidate and as a president and he may very well do it again abby who have been reporting from washington thank you. for coming up next is china cutting down on europeans doing business there stephen beardsley has more on business. my 1st buy cycle mosul sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by this notion for. something as simple as learning how to write a bicep those is and. since i was a good i wanted to take the loss of my home and it took me years to manipulate.

finally they gave up invented by me and i say this but returns with the sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apt procreates for goods than writing advice as no i wanted to reach out to those woman back home who had bones by the duties and social rules and informed them of oded basic rights my name is the about of people and they were. european companies complain about bullying from beijing they say officials are refusing to let many of their executives and staff back in the china for work after being expelled when the pandemic broke out. also show that the mobility race heats up the cio what else is another major electric vehicle partnership this time. with

a start up nicola. and zoom google meet how about google's open can use own web based video conferencing platform is gaining traction there and looks to expand across the continents. bill of welcome to the show i've seen bears in the lead it's good to have you with us a new survey suggests chinese officials are using the pandemic to up the pressure on european firms their companies telling the european union chamber of commerce in china the beijing is frequently refusing to grant managers and workers entry the findings come just days after president paying promised the business community to continue to open the economy to the world. in late may several 100 german executives and their families who had been forced to leave china due to the pandemic were granted special permission to return to their work places there but it was anything but a sign of getting back to normal. many european companies in china are still waiting for their employees to return but chinese authorities are refusing to let

them in again. in a survey by the european chamber of commerce in china at the end of july 13rd of the company said that none of their foreign employees had been allowed to return around one in 5 companies stated that only some of their ex-pats had been able to come back and only 17 percent said all employees had been permitted to return to china. the european chamber sees this as a further sign of tightening restrictions against european companies. almost half of those questioned said the pressure came mainly from the chinese government 44 percent said the total of chinese media had become more strident and more than a quarter also it had negative experiences with the communist party. while europe's borders are largely open to chinese investors the hurdles for entering the chinese market are getting higher and higher those who manage to do so are often hindered

by unfair business conditions in the country one big exception is the auto industry this is where cooperation has been improving for the benefit of both sides the european chamber says this should serve as a model for other sectors. or let's go to some of the other business stories making headlines singapore airlines became the latest carrier to announce massive layoffs because of the coronavirus pandemic singapore is cutting some 4300 jobs and that's about 20 percent of its workforce as travel restrictions devastates business the airline warns any recovery would be quote long and fraught with uncertainty. 2 years after agreeing to a self regulatory code of practice to tackle this information facebook alphabets google twitter and other tech rivals must try harder that according to the european commission on thursday this information related to cope in $1000.00 has increased calls for social media to be more proactive and combative the issue. french luxury

goods conglomerate l v m h said it would file its own court case against u.s. jeweler tiffany which is suing its would force a merger agreement signed last year l v m h had announced on wednesday it was unable as things stand to go ahead with its plan $16200000000.00 purchase of tiffany. what's the 2nd electric deal for general motors less than a week this time a $2000000000.00 agreement with the start of nikola to produce its electric pickup and supply batteries shares both companies put the pedal to the metal but what is nicola here's a look at the other company named after a certain mr tesla for. this is it nicolai headquarters this so proclaim disruptor of the transportation industry greets visitors with a variety of sleek and shiny vehicles and the entry hole so-called big rig trucks

away from their off road week olds it's all there it's show and tell what could be all rather what will be in the near future says this man we're an energy technology company that happens to make really cool big vehicles this is true of a milton the founder of nikola 38 years old and worth an estimated $4500000000.00. his 5th company open considers himself a gifted man equipped with plenty of ego and smarts of course primarily he just got lucky he says we 1st started this it was it was very risky you know the odds of starting a company and succeeding are normally always against you and the odds of starting a company and turning it into a multi-billion dollar organization worldwide is like winning the lottery 2 times in a row perhaps not only militants relentless determination but also his ability to make

others buy into his idea or. to get to where it is now. you start to realize that important person in the room it takes a long time. at this point in time with just around 400 employees still a small company has great ambitions milton and his team do not just want to disrupt but transform the trucking and transportation industry into an environmentally friendly business and not only in america but also in europe and around the world. milton is creating operating and betting on a unique business model that he wants to apply to the trucking and transportation industry he's now multibillion dollar startup doesn't simply plan on selling cool vehicles powered by hydrogen and batteries wants to be a 0 emissions one stop shop for truckers and transportation companies how. when

you buy a truck all your fuel is covered all your service your main it's all provided by us so that's the advantage that we're going to be building 50 hydrogen stations throughout europe and not just netted a big quarter for his company we'll build and deliver up to 2500 electric garbage trucks for america 2nd largest waste management company. needed as analysts and perhaps some investors complaint the reason so far only really sold t. shirts and pence but no trucks of the vehicles or hydrogen stations and maintenance packages. will be one of the top 5 companies in the world but remember is a startup maybe its past is not long enough to say definitively more about its future then perhaps promising. from one startup there to another this time in africa or began as a chat room for a mobile gaming app before becoming its own platform. has become the 1st video

conferencing web web platform from africa to take off during the pandemic now it's aiming to expand its reach. the goons are developers as sutton customers in africa prefer a paying as you go on demand use a platform with unlimited talk time not a monthly subscription as offered by the international competition ronald malone doe who runs a kenyan taxi startup says google has come in handy with more than half of his team working remotely due to the continued social distancing directives bonzo has really helped us to make our life is in 2 ways one it's more affordable it's profitable than all the competitors are who are on a mensa can be toughest of all this obvious is basically that we actually need in order to be able to walk. across different locations despite having the highest mobile device penetration at 350000000 smartphones many african countries are

struggling with limited internet access there has been skepticism over the video conferencing platform being exclusively web based with no downloadable app available we spoke to its canadian founder and chief executive using the guns a platform but. all their phones are all smaller memory trying to make our phones and so there has it it's a load of knots and so we believe that this makes them so much work practive much easier for people to start you get only clicking you're right in that meeting a major concern for most technology uses is the security concern to avoid bombings and hackers interrupting the virtual calls we add to that by having registration were other everybody's phone number we know who they are their real name is. the host of the meeting and see if they're like that you know before they enter the room and their name and phone number so they can choose whether or not that person and even if somebody does make it into a room and does something inappropriate now we have an audit trail as to who who

they are the 3 month old platform has had over 100000 minutes in meetings majorly from kenya we focus on smaller businesses and institutions of learning doing virtual conferencing. for the very 1st time schools like this one in kenya's capital nairobi are pilots in virtual lessons for students using guns or with plans to use it until schools in the country reopen more russian i was not able to interact. because they need to. and then ask a question or get a comment from a student with more interactive an improved features the platform could be an affordable option to consider. and staying in africa as a french colony algeria was once one of the largest exporters of wine to europe before seeing its wide brush and dry up in the 1990 s. as the country's islamic government crackdown on alcohol now an economic crisis

sparked by the chrono virus crisis means production is back as the government tries to boost revenues. cd bella best province used to be a wine growing center in algeria but production stopped during the country's decade long civil war in the 1990 s. now i'm a man who wants to revive production in the region under support for sellers under 40 hector vineyard. here in a large area we used to be among the world's premier wine exporters we used to produce about 22000000 hector liters during the 1940 s. 1950 s. 1960 s. . but now we've lost the market and we only produce about $400000.00 head to liters per year for me because it's all. during the french colonial era algeria produced some fine vintages and a man who wants to produce wine that is good enough to export but breaking back into the market takes time and it costs money. said the little sunni or not they

will see their new policy queuing to revive it but we need help from the government to plant the grapes. we can't keep up with the demand of the one plus we have the local market and the external markets to think of you know much unfairness or not so terrible not a much and to the extent to manas says that this year's vintage is excellent and the hopes that boosting algeria's wine industry can help lift the country out of the economic doldrums. and that's it for me and the business team here as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business facebook and twitter m c it's always nice watching.

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