violent evictions conducted by criminal again. i'm chris global. welcome to the program. all of shows is in washington for his 1st trip as germany chancellor and his meeting with us president joe biden to show just came to present a common front on the ukraine crisis and keep relations smooth. germany has just taken over the g 7 presidency in the run up to the meeting. mister shows said that germany is the strongest economic support of ukraine. and here's what's on the agenda. the meeting, the leaders will discuss the sanctions against russia. if it did invade ukraine, for example, possible penalties on the north stream to pipeline, which is to deliver russian gas to germany, bypassing countries like poland or ukraine. the leaders will also talk about bilateral relations and ways of fighting the corona virus pandemic. all right, let's take a closer look at this meeting with simone amena. she is the president of the american chamber of commerce in germany and the w's chief international editor,

richard walker. welcome to you both, richard. let me start with you. what is germany looking for in these talks to us has been pressing for the closure of the north stream to pipeline something that particularly all of shots didn't want to hear anything about yeah, well i show this line for the longest time, was always that no extreme to the very, very controversial pipeline project. and then came russia to germany was a purely commercial project. and effectively, the understanding being from a point of view that, that it's not for government to get to get mixed into this could of course, the pressure now with the situation going on between russia and ukraine is a totally different level of what he started saying. now of the past couple of weeks is that everything would be up for discussion that the american side is being far more explicit than that though, and totally blinking the secretary of state who was just berlin. just a few weeks ago. he stood here instead,

explicitly that nord stream to is leverage for the entire west in this situation. jake sullivan, joe biden, to talk foreign policy advice, was on american television yesterday saying that no train too would not go into operation if russia to some sort of invasion. and certainly what the united states would love to hear from schulte is, was a clear richard chance a shelter and others have been saying russia would pay a high price if it did go ahead and invade ukraine. what would this high price look like? yeah, well just to be clear, we are in the realm of sanctions. there's no western country thing, but it's going to go in potentially and fight for ukraine if there is some kind of rush in the invasion. so we're in the realm of sanctions. no stream twos, obviously something that is a potential thing. we've just discuss that. otherwise we talking about potential massive financial sanctions. it's been a lot of discussion potentially about starting russia out to be international payment system called swift. that would be

a very major step of the potential steps or restricting rushes access to international bond markets that could also be very disruptive for russia. because the thing is that what the, the west wants to make sure of is russia be not the western sanction is for many years or the west is trying to indicate vladimir putin to effect his calculus. is there any sanctions that a place you know would be far, far more serious? so no, no. over here it is the 1st visit of all our shoals as german chancellor to washington . what should the outcome of his meeting with the u. s. president? be according to you and your member companies. i think this visit said, shall tell us soul that the trans atlantic partnership is very strong and that we as germans honor our trans atlantic partner and support wherever we can. that is important for all our members. be a german or american companies, but with the russia ukraine stand off topping the agenda,

do you not fear that this could be a missed opportunity? i mean, there is a raft of issues to solve and trans atlantic trade. but the topic, the dominating topic is a different one. well, in, at least in the media is i think the agenda would be more than the ukraine conflict . although i totally agree. we need strong signals that we stem together, especially in sanctions. the question mark for me would be, is it necessary to explicit give a catalogue? because whenever you give all ready red lines up front, you are out of the diplomacy way. but i think what it has to be very clear and explicit is that everything. swift as well as nod stream to is in the basket for possible sanctions. and i think that has already been said for, for example, also by miss babcock. and not so explicit. i agree by mister simone, a minute,

president of the american chamber of commerce in germany and d. w as richard walker. thanks to you both and now to some of the other global business stories making headlines around the world. the german chamber of commerce h k is warning of an exit is a foreign companies doing business in russia that over moscow's recent mandate to extend medical tests for foreign workers, they include h, i v covered and regular blood tests and even x rays and psychological evaluations indonesia economy returned to growth last year, expanding by 3.7 percent after a corona virus trigger recession in 2020. the combat was based on robust exports as prices rose for paul, coal, and nickel. for this year, the central bank expects further growth of up to 5 and a half percent in the central bank has rescheduled monetary policy meeting after the death of baldwood legend lotta mangas car. a national holiday has been declared

and memory of the late singer. a decision on monetary policy is not expected on thursday. and you and report says north korea's miss our program is being funded through stolen crypto currency. north korean cyber attacks of stolen more than $50000000.00 worth of criptos in the past 2 years, according to investigators such attacks are an important revenue source for planning young's nuclear and ballistic missile program. the report says let's get more in this from different tuning. my colleagues here at the w visit. clifford how advanced is north korea in areas like crypto crime, cyber crime, crime. yeah. it certainly seems to be getting more sophisticated. it used to be when they needed to are in foreign currency. they were, the north koreans would make crystal math or fake $100.00 bills, but clearly they're moving with the times and they see an opportunity here, crypto currency. and recent years you see a number of cyber attacks using malware and fishing and things like that on clearly

the sophistication level has increased now where they're, where they're able to access crypto currency on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of it. yeah, i mean, the un says $50000000.00 alone stolen the last 2 years. how does the process work? well, basically a lot of it goes through an organization called the surveillance general, which is the, the secret service. and they, they've coordinating with a hacking group called lazarus, which has been, which has been targeted by us security officials. and they say that's one of the most sophisticated of the cyber criminals. and then they go for hot wallets, which is where people store their crypto currency in wallets that are connected to the internet. and then using fishing, malware and various other things, they seem to be able to access the money. so it's, it's, it's showing a great level of sophistication and clearly this is something that's probably going to increase over the coming years. and you report saying, north korea is miss our program is being funded through stolen crypto currency,

the ws. clifford kuhn and thank you in 2019, there were more than 3000 official evictions in mexico city. thousands more organized privately, sometimes by force, from criminal gangs on the poorest families are the hardest. did they spend about half their income on rent? the tenants of this apartment block in mexico city are locked in, his struggle with their landlord who did was in this has lived here since she was a child for years ago. the owner of her building sold it to a mexican bank, ignoring the tenants, right of 1st refusal. the new owner hired armed security, installed surveillance cameras, and sent in thugs to intimidate them. lawyers were hired to force the $45.00 families out of their apartments. but 12 of the tenants stayed. they barricaded themselves on the roof to escape the constant harassment. broken up. yes,

if possible, it is to the how could they demolish the building when people live here, he turned the key. and that was buncombe. he fell strategy and it scared a lot of people off. it'll flip back to the letter to hillary bank on may 5th. although who did resend as and the other challenge regularly pay their rent, the bank is trying to evict them. the plan is to build new apartments and offices in the roman north, a district, one of the most sought after neighborhoods in the mexican capital gentrification as quickly spread to other neighborhoods in mexico city, where housing prices have increased by 40 to 80 percent in the past year according to n g o habitat, international coalition. during the pandemic, 30 percent of the capitals resonance left the city due to rising, rents, and services. the takeaway city government must do more to prevent displacement

the radio area made it has to control speculation realistic. las yawn and promote land policies that take into account the need for secure affordable housing for the cities portion population. so they don't have to leave as i was. but i think was them into no, i don't think that is a good sally. and the last, the last in 2019 there were more than 3000 official evictions, but thousands more are organized privately, sometimes by force from criminal gangs. the poorest families are the hardest hit. they spend about half their income on rent in the city administration. rafael gomez is responsible for urban development and construction. he says a legal reform initiative has been launched for more inclusive housing leafy kim would let them into the new law will help turn around the real estate market. that it so that the inner city, residential areas where people who moved away can live here again. and the

construction of affordable housing gets promoted. who did resend, as has been looking for a new apartment. but here where she has always lived, she can't find anything. she has no choice but to stay in this room and endure the owner's harassment. isn't it? if he says, i've been looking for a place to go and start over, but it's very difficult at hand. the rents are very high that the apartments very far away started. it takes 3 hours to get from home to work. gentrification is affecting more and more neighborhoods impacting mexico cities poorest residence. and here's a quick reminder of our top story for you at this hour. all of schoultz is in washington for the 1st time as germany's chancellor in his meeting with you as president joe biden. charles has came to present a common front on the crank rises and keep relations smooth. germany has just taken over the g 7th precedence and

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