i'm over weekends would be a lot quieter as you can see it's very very busy so. we very very grateful for them it's not quite full speed ahead for the tram line as it's serving just half its usual timetable but it's a start one that symbolizes south africa's journey back to normality. business straight ahead tick tock while that story is taking i'm brian thomas stay with us more business straight ahead here where do you go. to the point of strong opinions clear positions from international perspectives. things are getting increasingly strange between the e.u. but in china the 2 sides have been hoping to sign a landmark investment deal in reality though they're hardly on speaking terms why

find out onto the point shortly. to the point. in 75 minutes on d w. this of but i don't need to keep a date on the books for over that's on home the 4th time for the most recent article about. the families at the last dragon this one has called the hard truth. on. how many forms can tick tocks take on negotiate has come up with yet another new ownership structure for the popular video well to appease both the u.s. and china. the closure of a bridgestone factory at frat spots protests unions accuse the company of using the crisis as a pretext to ruin livelihoods. and more cases of swine fever found in one of the

boys has germany's scrambling to halt the decline of prices. and big physical and let's do business. talks face in the united states finally becoming clear to the parent company by the end of oracle have tentatively agreed on poaches terms for the short video social platform under the room a deal or a cool moment and then says u.s. investors would together have a majority stake in the firm citing security concerns president donald trump had given by dan's an ultimatum to celtic talk to a u.s. company which is set to expire on sunday. chelsea delaney is following this for us for josie is this structure going to work well the steel certainly is not sealed yet and the big question the big point of contention is who at the. tick tock in the united states so the proposal that by

chance an oracle had originally come up with earlier this week was that by defense that the chinese owner of tech talk would remain the majority owner of tik tok in the united states so they would allow or call to basically house their data removing some of those data considerations but at the end of the day the company would still be owned by president and the u.s. has said that really won't fly with him he wants the company owned by by u.s. investors and so by dance obviously very reluctant to give up control of the company that they have bill and they're very proud of building so they've made a lot of other concessions for example they've said that they would have a u.s. for that they would give oracle access to their source code but whether they'll actually be willing to give up control of the company it's still unclear at this point just briefly will american fans be able to keep using the app. it seems like it doesn't benefit anybody for

a tech talk to actually be banned in the united states it's very popular it's as it has about 100000000 users in the united states or from the u.s. perspective. it doesn't make sense for them to really. ruin the very popular op in the united states from a chinese perspective they really do want us to continue operating as well and so see who comes out on top the u.s. or china at the end of the day the u.s. has definitely been in control of these negotiations by dancers basically bent over backwards to appease the u.s. and be able to continue operating there whether they actually will be able to strike this deal we still don't know all of the details yet but definitely the u.s. has been the one in control of these negotiations josie delaney on tico thank you. now some of the business stories making news europe's travel industry is calling for a uniform rules during the coronavirus pandemic is different travel restrictions don't

be used citizens from traveling the industry once quarantine requirements to aids and governments to embrace testing and coordinated restrictions. emus plans to cut emissions further could double common cause for european business is that kate poland and other countries have borne high a common costs to burden business is struggling amid the copen 1000 pandemic especially airlines of manufacturers and you plan still needs to be approved by all e.u. member states. france is set to roll out new coronavirus cope's for the big cities its reported its highest number of new covert cases in a day since the pandemic began one of europe's strictest lockdowns was caused economic strife including job cuts the business is going bankrupt one plant closure in particular is causing an outcry among workers and the government. protesters have been gathering for days at the factory gates of tire maker bridgestone the

company plans to shut the plant in northern france slashing $860.00 jobs the reason overcapacity and low demand according to the japanese owned tire maker the left wing trade union says she rejects that reasoning. is all good it's unacceptable for companies to take advantage of the crisis as most of them like bridgestone are doing to restructure to cut jobs and put pressure on the workers to accept sacrifices like lower salaries and so on. the union called out strikes in several french cities workers say the billions of euros in pandemic with covering money and not reaching them. have done a good deed get it to fork over to there was no money it wasn't possible suddenly they're releasing millions billions of euros in aid to companies so yes there is money you just have to know who it's directed at and employees especially the front

line ones as they've been called should benefit from the wage increases that they need that. french society is deeply divided many people feel left behind in the crisis especially in rural areas they're demanding more social benefits but the government in paris is pursuing its investment in business just last week the government's recovery package was ramped up to 100000000000 euros to strengthen companies and preserve jobs. is it justified what's going on at bridgestone. well the unions obviously say it is they are talking about a planned x. assignation attempt of the factory no one was expecting the factory to close because basically what's happening there is that that factory is producing smaller tires for smaller cars and that's not very profitable actually and there's no other

such factory left in western europe but the unions are saying that the mother company should have invested earlier they should have invested money to buy new machines so that the fact she could actually produce larger tires for s.u.v.s and other cars and that's actually still worthwhile in this part of the world so they are saying it's right for us to go out there and protest against this because there is another way what is the other way the government says this is appalling what's it doing about it absolutely the local government and the central government all of them all the politicians actually stepping up and saying we need this and we need to prevent this and they're saying that the mother company can't do this they're threatening that they will go to court and they say you need to invest money now apparently what's needed is about 15150000000 euros and the government is saying you know we will finance half of that money so you should

really come forward and try to invest that money buy new machines so that this factory can rock again we can say for those jobs while this whole crisis with bridgestone is boiling over the chances of another lockdown a simmering away surely that will heighten tensions. absolutely there probably more closures to come more plans to cut jobs to come for now it's kind of been contained because the money the government has been pumping billions of years into the economy through 4 schemes or you know you see that through the consolation of employers charges but. saying that especially next year that might be a new wave of company closes coming that might come in a new wave of company closes and obviously the government is hoping that they will be able to prevent this meanwhile as you said numbers are few infections here are rising now about more than 40 departments. so that means they're more than

50 new infection cases per 100000 every day and the government is posing new measures because they want to prevent another lockdown at all costs because they know that the economic consequences of that would be catastrophic indeed would also be hurtful to the government i'm sure lisa lewis thank you very much for joining us there from paris the german government is considering age to farmers if pork markets keep falling officials have confirmed another case of swine fever in a wild boar in eastern germany the disease is not dangerous to humans but it's fatal to pigs and is highly infectious china has had to cull hundreds of millions of livestock to stem the mess yvel break. at the moment there are 2000 paintings on this farm in the german state of lower saxony. only the farmer you're

an ill or someone worker have access to the livestock the double entry system is designed to protect them from pathogens in particular the african swine fever virus until now illinois has made good money raising pigs but ever since it did wild boar was discovered with the disease far away in the state of brandenburg the price of pork has dropped by $0.20 per kilogram for the from the you know you can calculate what it means for an average pig farmer here in the region with around 700 to 800 animals it can easily be a loss in value of 15220000 euro's from one day to the next couple of months about . 400 kilometers to the east the older river had been considered a natural boundary that would prevent african swine fever from spreading from poland to germany additionally and the electrified fence was set up to keep infected wild boar out of germany they're considered the main carriers of the epidemic. back in lower saxony more and more corn

is being planted on a large scale which provides food and cover for the wild boar hunters are trying to keep the population down but it's a time consuming process after 3 hours of stalking this hunter hasn't shot a single one of the there should be plenty around. if it's somebody going on some of them are back in 1980 for example with bags of 50 wild boar each in full gun last year was shot $540.00 that's why more than 10 times as many eyes on the pussy and from the outbreak of african swine fever has already had a drastic effect on pork exports asian countries have closed their markets to german pour up to now 10 percent of german exports have gone to china alone. so far it's unfair for all of germany to be included in the export ban the dead wild boar were found in the forest far away from his stall he doesn't want to see all

germany's pig farmers being lumped together. you're going to avoid them which should be looking at farms close to the center of this epidemic it would make sense to restrict exports there but it doesn't make sense to apply these restrictions to all the farmers who are 402500 kilometers away and walked all. the shrinking. in those can't imagine the virus spreading from wild boar to the pigs on his farm for that he says the safety measures in his stalls are far too good. business for 3.

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on the road. next on d w. highlights . programme. w dot com highlights. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm liable lola thanks for joining us a refugee camp morea in greece has long been a symbol of europe's failed migration policy now it is no more europe's largest

refugee camp lies in ruins after a fire it raised it to the ground some 12000 people fled the flames and now.