solar industry. this is the w business. i'm janelle dumas on russian foreign minister, sergei la rob says moscow will allow ukrainian food exports to leave ukraine. after talks with his turkish counterpart in and kara, he said russia agreed not to exploit the situation surrounding ukrainian green shipments. ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of horn and sunflower oil. but the war and russia located of ukrainian force have halted exports and endangered food supplies to many developing countries. i'm joined by d. w reporter at graham a key t. welcome a gram. so what have we heard so far coming out of turkey today? we heard that the negotiations to get the gray notice moving to positive direction . and the turkish foreign minister chose shorter said turkey wants to do whatever it takes taken in taken part,

to get the grain out of ukraine. and this means the turkey will probably join in clearing the mines in order to support this is the proposed plan by united nations and turkey also. so shoulder said that this will be run by the ukranian come to come to part global. and when you're going to greece, i think the day to work to get the grain out, starts in the coming weeks. now of course, this is contingent on ukraine agreeing, but can you tell us more about how 30 plans to help you creamy and green reach global markets, where basically we hear in turkish media, especially that the proposed plan involves turkey to take part in clearing the mines and escorting the, the, the rest carrying the grain and read from ukraine to international waters in black sea region. and the next stage would be the turkey and russian warships would escort the great ships to arrive in both forest. right. and it's tumble. and the

whole operation would be overseen by a come up from a comma center run by united nations. and now how is a turkey managing to balance its relations with both ukraine and russia? shirley, this is a delicate balance to strike. want ok a doctor to know to position on very early on, and they always defended that the only solution to end the war would be based on negotiations and turkey as a critical relations both with ukraine and with russia in many different fields in tourism, in trade in the military, and meanwhile they propose the 1st peace talks in searcy in the middle of march, and obviously which was collapsed. and what's interesting is to keep the kept the communication channels with russia open channels open. meanwhile, selling military drones to ukraine and they manage so far to balance, to, to continue a balanced position in now,

what is it that turkey gets out of assuming a key role in these negotiations on blocking green exports out of ukraine? why actually there is a lot at stake and 30 wants to pro, once again i do on government wants to pro once again, but they are a key player and derision. and they, they, they play a key role in the, in the, in the, in establish and security in the region. and this of course, will reflect on the domestic policies as well. that advanced position will be once again greens for reinforce as a, as the strong leader in the region and brokering the piece in ukraine if possible. so in many ways this is about our air to one wanting to gain prestige abroad and at home. thank you very much. that was my colleague akron, he g, thank you for your insights. now the war, of course, has hit ukrainian farmers in the countries east. they've been planting, seasonal vegetables,

despite fierce fighting in the area. a russian missile comes to rest in ukrainian farmers field right in the bread basket of europe. thanks to the soft ground. this one didn't explode. but despite the danger, life must go on. and farmers in ukraine's eastern don bass region have nowhere else to go. i guess what i am about this constant shelling. there are some breaks, but they are very short. we're not sleeping at night at all. while they're showing you are shaking in the bed. there's no way to go and no money to go with their planting, seasonal vegetables in this field as they have done every spring for generations. there's shelling from everywhere daily. what can we do? we need to live somehow and to survive somehow. yes i so then i won't go away from here. it's my field. why should i go somewhere else

with normally ukraine supplies just as a 40 percent of the sunflower oil traded on the global market. 16 percent of the maze and nearly 10 percent of the world's wheat. but with russia blockading, ukraine's ports around 25000000 tons of grain are stuck in the country. according to the united nations food and agriculture organization. there's also evidence that moscow's troops have been looting storage facilities and transporting the grain back to russia. to make matters worse, rushes invasion has deliberately targeted ukraine's agricultural sector, leading to downgraded harvest forecasts for this year. now to some of the other global business stories making news, australia's antitrust regulator has sued air b and b, saying the accommodation sharing website misled users into paying more than advertise from 2018 to 2021. it advertised and charge room rates in us dollars without

indicating the much higher rates in australian dollars, or b and b refused to refund users who complained. us treasury secretary, janet jaelyn, says inflation is that an acceptable levels? but she said it was a global problem. speaking to a senate committee, she defended president biden stimulus package, which some blame for rising prices. yellen said it had been needed to prevent high unemployment and poverty people or did damp rushes. foreign ministry has suspended a 1998 agreement with japan that allowed japanese fishermen to fish near the disputed southern corral islands. moscow said it was a forced to suspend the agreement since japan failed to make the payments required under the deal. european officials have agreed to require a common charger for smartphones, tablets and laptops,

beginning in 2024. they believe a standard cable for all devices sold in the u will cut back on electronic waste. but eiffel maker, apple argues a one size fits all charger, would slow innovation and create more pollution. now both the war in europe and the ongoing supply chain. crisis have exposed of the weaknesses of and diversified sources. europe's dependency on chinese solar components, for example, is even greater than on russian gas. german startup. next buffer wants to change that. this silicon wafer is used to make solar cells. 95 percent of them are made in china, where manufacturers benefit from cheap energy. but the chinese cost advantage and solar energy could start to waver. the phone, hoffer start up next wave located in the southern german city of fryeburg has developed a new cost effective way for production process. difficult. this is

virginia, pacific, listen, we consume 70 percent less energy. we have markedly lower cost and on top of that, our wafers have characteristics such as being thinner, which cannot be achieved with conventional chinese production methods so far. oh, good, good. so far, it's only a small pilot project, but by the end of 2020 to a factory being built in the state of saxony on hunt will be its 1st mass production facility. next wave is in talks with european solar manufacturers. even china is showing interest indian industrial conglomerate reliance is on board is a strategic partner. route i'm thought, said on good reliance as announced plans in india to build the solar industries and tire production chain on a gigawatts scale. and way for production with next waves, technology will be one component of it on both of the dresden based firm solar, what has been competing with chinese rivals without offering any cost advantage.

the company is counting on high quality modules for family homes and environmentally friendly production. this is proving popular because customers are willing to pay more for it. off demand has gone through the roof. it's noticeable of orders are rising, our books are full. customers must wait long periods until the modules are delivered along with the lowest glucose well. but china cannot be left out completely. solar want needs, wafers from asia, due to a shortage in europe. recruiting the over with you, but we're just not getting them in the quantities we need. we're really being forced to rely on asian countries. lubelle's solar want c e o debt lab, no house blamed the government in part because 10 years ago it caught solar funding earlier than planned. the sector is worried about your company has caught up. of course, no one is going to come and invest hundreds of millions or even billions, if they don't at least offer

a stable framework and planning security. the european commission has been taking the closer look. it's planning to take steps to bolster production again in europe . the european chamber of commerce and aging has released the study examining german chinese research ties. i asked president your foot care about the criticism around engagement with non democratic countries like china. well members of the 800 of them across 9 cities, of course that we're discussing the kind of authoritarian approach. i mean, we are the subjects to that. we don't like in germany that far away amongst those that actually feel the kind of breath of the party breathing down on nick at times . but at the same time again, we are here for business. we are generating income via generates and profit in many ways, to the extent where we stabilize back home our headquarters. and this many areas between 20 and 40 percent of profit comes from china. our back home offices will look very different without the chinese market. so you have to really distinguish

in areas where you might not want to be, or at least you want to be in a very targeted manner such as john, at the same time, of course, we cannot deny the fact that we learn a lot of here and again, how dependent is the german customer of china? products, the 1300000000 euro every day of goods come from china into european union. but nobody talks about the dependency of just german customers there. now you've called your report, china's innovation ecosystem, right? for many, but not for all, for whom. is it not? right? an early fall margin nationals, it's much better if you are. it was a big company. you have some political leverage. you have a grand to department with lawyers, you have the money in order to get external ex expertise, estimates middle shed on more challenge there of course. and also if they knew was because of technology leakage, or frankly stealing one of their major items or technologies. then they might

actually be threatened globally. and so in a way you have to be very cautious when you go here again, we have a lot of help build up for it. we have an i p, i help desk in the european chamber for middle stunned. and we have an estimate center that actually tell people where the advantages are and whether wrists way possibly better not show up. you're a good guy. he is the european chamber of commerce, a president in china. thank you very much for your time today. thanks for watching . ah ah. with

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