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with global struggle for water. and nothing can be done with thirst starts august 10th on d, w. b. o. ah, the u. s. is selling to the world. exports from the states have hit a record high and made strong demand for its oil and gas, but how much can we read into it's about the status of the u. s. economy. german energy firm winters has resisted pressure to pull out of russia. war how long can it keep working with the russian state and driverless cars are taking the china streets? does the home grown technology mean? there's now no room for testing. this is due to be a business on what,

what's in berlin, welcome to the program. you figures show us exports hit a record high in june goods and services totaled over $260000000000.00. that's up $4300000000.00 on mays figure, which was also a record sales of oil, natural gas, gold and aircraft contributed to the rise. the u. s. also narrowed its overall trade gap for the 3rd consecutive month. however, a surgeon import. so it's trade deficit with china rise to a new record. let's get more in this from our correspondent at the new york stock exchange. teddy australia teddy. just explain to his what's behind this record level of exports from the united states. yes, rob, all the exports. i certainly contributing to this extraordinary shrinkage in the trade deficit here in the united states,

but seems to be driving it our energy and food products, primarily. that's industrial supplies and materials such as natural gas or petroleum products. but we've also seen an uptick and things like gold. now what's driving those exports is actually demand in other parts of the world for energy, particularly in europe, which is trying to win itself off of russian gas for its invasion of ukraine. well, united states is the largest producer of natural gas and with european demand rising. we are seeing the u. s. become the largest exporter of natural gas on the planet, even surpassing guitar reco exports. good news on the face of it. but how can we actually read into figures like that about the face of the us economy? yes, well, rising exports, that is great, but you have to look holistically. let's look on the other side at the imports. well, does that mean that when imports are decreasing?

does that mean that domestic production is ramping up and they are making those products that we would normally get overseas? will not necessarily. it could mean that we are seeing decreasing demand for those products, which should be in line with some of the other economic indicators that are not so exciting, such as shrinking g d p for the past 2 quarter is inflation is still roaring and eating into paychecks. and to the consumers, even shifting spending, business investment is down, manufacturing is down, so we can look to exports. and we can say great, this is one of the good things in the economy alongside the job market, which is still roaring. but even then there are cracks. there we saw jobless claims up, so exports. it's wonderful, but we have to look holistically in the economy. hey teddy australia in new york, or as even like irrelevant now, many european companies have withdrawn from russia since it launched its full scale invasion of ukraine in february. but not the german energy company vintners. how

dare it's making billions in profits in co operation with russia's state and gas from 1300000000 euros in the 1st half of the year. the company wants to stick to its projects in russia, but criticism is getting louder a year ago winters. how dia uploaded video to youtube in it, the gas production in cooperation with the russian state on company gas. one is still price and the highest tones, winters healthier and gas prom proudly announce 1st gas for their mega project chin developed. this came years after russia in ext crimea, and as it's proxies occupied, ukraine's don bus region. but pollutants aggressive policies didn't stop the company from continuing to pursue as economic interests as early as 2014, entirely in line with the german government official policy. as high as yet,

it's now a matter of building bridges, not tearing them down at because the company has numerous cooperative ventures with russia. the most important of those, the joint exploitation of the, nor the lingo eagle field in siberia, together with gus from vent us her dia is also involved in the notes room $1.00 and $2.00 pipelines only now has the company announced that it will no longer start any new projects, but it wants to hold on to the old ones. its argument. if the joint ventures are abandoned, everything will fall into russian hands. i have been discussing them as owls position with louis wilson from the international and geo global wit. he thinks it's too late for the company to redeem itself for its close cooperation, but the russian state governments has already been done. it's quite clear that vince a shout over the course,

a number of decades set out to build up russia's fossil fuel infrastructure. it set out to build up germany's dependence on that and the argument backs to leave russia would simply hand over a few years to the russians doesn't stuck up. and ben shaw has made quite enough money as of frustrated the even just this year doubling profits on it gas. we are research 400000000 years from russian gasoline in the 1st 3 months of the serious about the statements that they've made. they've been set up of funding these all profits from rushing gas to tell from the reconstruction of ukraine, but they're not serious about it. tell us, take a look at some of the other business stories making the news with western countries sanctioning russia for its war against ukraine. moscow has been increasing trade with others in july, russia became the 3rd largest coast supply of india, shipping, just over 2000000 tons. that's 20 percent more than

a month earlier in the uses. most of it to generate electricity, consumers are anxious about the european economy. according to a survey by the european central bank, they expect higher inflation and weaker economic development saying they also expect spending to rise considerably more than income is the 1st time the c b has published it's consumer expectations survey, which is going to release every month. now lotanza is booked, it's 1st net profit. since the pandemic began germany airline and 259000000 euros in the 2nd quarter. boyd by freight operations. the news might earn some passengers who seem chaos at airports this summer of times a canceled thousands of flights recently. now, cuba is as good as bankrupt life on the island is becoming increasingly difficult in its attempt to desperately get foreign currency. the state increased the

official exchange rates to the dollar 5 fold on wednesday in the hope of getting its hands on the u. s. currency of both cubans and tourist $120.00 cuban pesos to the dollar. that's the rate the state is willing to buy foreign currency from its citizens, much higher than the $24.00 pesos it was offering. it's part of the government's desperate attempt to get hard foreign currency. notice you'll get, the more we taken the decision to make a 1st step in buying foreign money with all the foreign currencies, including cash dollars. the exchange rate will be better than the $1.00 to $24.00 pesos that exist today. so barrier, i'll people are going to be winnable and to what? until now, cubans traded their dollars on the black market. with the exchange rate was $115.00 pesos. and tourists, money often failed to end up in government coffers because of the unattractive official exchange rate. the government now wants to change that. cuba is dependent

on important urgently needs convertible currency for food, medicine, petrol, or oil. the economic situation on the island is worsening. many have lost faith that the government has the power to get a grip on the economic crisis. chinese search engine by do has become the 1st company in the country to roll out, driverless cars on to public roads. at the same time, though, teslas have been banned in some parts of china. and suppose it security grounds observers say it's another example of beijing inviting in foreign firms, copying the attack and then kicking them out. china's driverless cars seem to be going from 0 to a 100. this one is an s u v, where the driver and even steering wheel are optional. search engine turned a i developer by do unveiled the model just last week. and some of its

older models are already being piloted on beijing's roads to les his founder of sino auto insights, a beijing based auto industry consultancy for our when we talk. moreover, taxes that still for a ways out. he says that chinese companies want consumers to get familiar with the cars by 1st offering them as right hailing services like uber or dd except robotic . but real life hazards could delay full commercialization by many years. specifically in china, there are a lot of scenarios where we wouldn't see them in germany where we might have a cell unsure or delivery vehicle or a motorbike that's crossing lanes without the proper notification and things like that. and so we're, so quite a ways away from point to point where you call a car like a devi. there's no driver in it, it picks you up and it takes you anywhere you want to go in any weather in any season. the data they collect ranges from mapping to voices and visuals like faces

and license. plates collected by on board cameras and sensors, including around sensitive areas like military zones and government agencies, underscoring some of those concerns. china has been barring tesla's from parts of the country that top chinese leaders visit. in this regard, chinese, driverless carmakers may be better poised to dominate their home market. if an lamb is senior analyst at hong kong based counterpoint, research a chinese konica, they are very good. ah inter great us. they are, will, can they have that these are the ah service provider, or other solution provider. they will like to say are the cause. you k state install your seat, them in the local, into my car. even if foreign players can adapt a chinese data laws, it's still unclear to what extent they can make significant inroads. what you're likely sees to buy for taishan, chinese companies and, and american companies dominating in their perspective loan regions. and then

may be competing for regions like europe, south america, with rollouts, of autonomous vehicles now happening in both china and the us. the battle for tech supremacy could be moving into the streets. so for me, on the business name here in berlin, the next time you have never been this many deaths at europe's external borders. the enclave of milly, john, between morocco and speed. it's also where a true, a city needs asylum seeker tried to cross over to europe, barely surviving. he speaks about brutal push backs and rejection. focus on europe. next, on d, w is the end of the pandemic in site.

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