the off the well, but also mike is struggling today. stuff, representatives at the folks bog and reveal the company is planning to close. at least 3 factories in germany. baths has never happened before. competition from china and weak sales mean, the company needs to cut costs, putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk box. as the german economy looks at just stagnates us. yet folks login might just be the tip of the ice book. i'm also guy in berlin, and this is the day the, it's, everything's at stake now the plant closure. 10000 people redundant. it makes you really stop and think you might have my colleagues and i are afraid for our jobs and fear is not at all helpful. to

look into possibly false management decisions from the past must not be at the expense of employees almost. hopefully we may have to see how we can feed our families and what's next for this region. as this has a personal impact. but it also has an impact on the region and on germany to also on the day concerns about israel's future plans. because as the army presses a head with its offensive sign up service say it resembles a blueprints known as the generals plot. all this area will become to be a military result, and all the homeless people will stevenville whether some of them will fight those . some of them are civilians, they will have 2 choices, either to surround the or to stall to have you as

on cbs in the united states, and so it will be around the world. welcome germany. europe's biggest economy has been facing growing headwinds and today workers at europe's biggest comic uh, geminus volkswagen land. the future could be on the line. staff representatives announced on monday that v. w intends to close at least 3 plants in germany and slash tens of thousands of jobs. the reason production costs are too high to keep up with the competition. currently, vw employees more than 800000 workers at 10 plants here in germany, mostly in the countries north. so far management has not to confirm the plans, but ahead of the next round a weight based wage negotiations. i suppose we see a thomas schiffer issued a statement hinting at deep costs. he says that we cannot continue as before. we are not productive enough as our gym in science,

and our factory costs are currently 25 to 50 percent higher. then we have plants. this means that individual german phones are twice as expensive as the competition as a last month dw terminated job job security, packed with labor unions that had been in place for more than 30 years. paving the way for layoffs. the union representing most vw workers is vowing to put up a fight. this has never happened before. volkswagen could layer for massive number of employees in germany and clothes and tie plots. the fear is real. for a long time jobs at fox walk into the cost of the opposite. this occur. so i wouldn't say that this is unsettling for many people because it fundamentally calls the future into questioning august the sincere but also she's very drastic cuts. you have to think about how you can support your family as come. john 1st came to fear, then the disappointment because we have never experienced anything like this at fox

walking before and now comes the anger. volkswagen has significant problems on one hand, cost sales are far from enough in europe loan, an additional $500000.00 vehicles would be needed to fully utilize the plants. according to the company. on the other hand, to transition to electric mobility as costly and not very successful. now, 3 out of 10 plots in germany could be closed. all employees are expected to earn 10 percent less permanent. tolerance could lose their jobs. fox market is the largest industrial employee in germany with $120010.00 police entire regions depends on the auto maker. that's why the government is also locked. go to school. this constitutes the position of the chancellor is clear. the cache of past management mistakes should not be at the expense of the employees and also forgotten. hi, it is now by preserving, as securing jump. what does it? so i'm good about splits a tool hospitalizations,

but fox fucking says we're cost production. there is no future. the location in germany is too expensive. the company plans to present its specific cost saving measures on wednesday small window and by a piece of both. and he's one of germany's top economist, i'm served for over a decade on the gym and government's panel of economic advisers. as the governor continues to teach at about the university, welcome back to the w 9. today's news is having ripple effects far beyond vw. factory towns, how big a blog is this for the german economy as a whole? well, congress weighs a car of john, these business model, the main manufacturers, and also the many suppliers that small and medium size speech altogether made up the. so i think the success of the drum and economy and now this is right

and, and i think the defects really very far reaching and very serious germany has been lagging behind other countries in pushing for electric costs, for example. and, and all the innovations can dw, and other companies still touch shop with foreign competition. do you think? i think it's very difficult because the batteries all come from china and it's very difficult to draw them, but use us to develop their own batteries. in addition to charge these try not only related to better ways, but also to the digital services, the chinese costs offering today. and one can see from folks funded by itself, was not not able to develop the digital services devices that are necessary to be competitive. and especially in the china tomorrow. do you think this vw story is just the tip of the iceberg that the more companies could follow with announcing

job cuts? yes, already have some of the announcements from the monthly suppliers and they will reduce the cost as so base showing that 60 percent of the drawing costs minus lending jo, reductions the costs the problems on it, only related to to 1st of all, you can also see if these messages bends deemed of you have seen the very strong launch of the sales in china that the profits have been a big deal was considerably in the last quarter. so it's not only for the folks on this problem. what is the treating, the whole drum and what i mean, what do you think that i would, i would like to play you something. germany's finance minister said recently about the german carbons industry and then get your reaction off to what stickler you been able to think. i don't want to be and polite, but the european and especially the german car industry, has levels of gear from chinese products, either by the best cars are built in germany, endorsement about no,

they're engineered with germany. some of them are actually built in china. type isaac machine. what do you say to comments like that to have b, w and other companies been living off their reputation for a little too long? and the provide that mr. lead most money. com is a political scientist. and even if the quality of the german cars is comparable, we've talked these costs, there's also the problem, the price and the same quality. china is kind of a much cheaper and i do not see for the time being how driving costs can become as competitive as necessary. and the china is marked as an additional cost, if not, if you ever ties cartersville into the drum and come market. and so it is really very difficult problem and difficult to solve because the prince has to be neglected to buy the corporate uses and also by john painter. she's as does that

mean that the german economic model isn't working anymore? in any case, the drum and the model is facing strong have been service model, consists of exports, industries, and costs are the problems go beyond the cost sector, have also problems in a positive human speed. few to high energy costs and export model is also inspected by the fact that the multiplication isn't the global economy. so we really have to reconsider all. now the german government is quoting on the w to protect jobs. what options does john specialists of government have in the situation? well, in the shots of the best thing would be to reintroduce the subsidy for like the cost which must have bought last december. and which has led to a strong decline. the sales of like the cost and john gauge what's happening on the

country. so these would be the priority. my know the government is hosting talks tomorrow to stay with business need is from companies large and small. what do you think the most urgent priority for turning the economy around is? the most action priority would be to keep the brain which limits a potential to transform our economy in a very extreme way. this was a job economy would be able to, to, to the end engineer the huge investment program transformation program, let's say about function in euros and do not need to increase on the type of g p range. so which would be, would be the, the, the range of $27.00 countries. some would have a huge potential for our lease, a way to the pharmacy spot for the day frame. we have the meeting our selves and to be do not change this. uh, i don't think that we can get out of the problems that we are currently facing.

scratch having your take on this. that's the economist pete. simple thing. many, thanks for your time. thank you. i'm sure so the, the day off the includes another thing that is all about most importance. any 5 is by a to continue the process. i laid a few years ago with the signing of the historic abraham accords and a cheap piece. we'd more arab countries, we all, most of thoughts. it is ready from minnesota benjamin netanyahu. the speaking in the opening session of the connected, it is today as his country continues to carry out, submitted for your operations against him. osmond attends in gaza and has bella and southern lebanon. both of those campaigns which is well says are necessary to secure its borders, have stopped. and in the arab world, the siege of gauze has many palestinians worried that israel maybe implementing, implementing what's known as the general's plan, which would force and it was the remaining and old and garza to evacuate. surrender

will stop. israel's intensified assault has led tens of thousands of palestinians to flee the north of gaza. the un says many of those remaining are worried if they leave. they'll never be allowed to return human rights groups echo that fear. the evacuation orders and siege tactics have them worried. israel has quietly begun implementing the so called general's plan. it calls for the northern 3rd of the strip, including gaza city to be cut off and declared a military zone. anyone left behind would be treated as an enemy combatant states. israel should maintain control over the north for an indefinite period and create a new administration without from us splitting the gaza strip into to the chief architect of the proposal. is this not a former head of these really national security council, some nation that shouldn't be given. i don't know,

10 days to lean with the full size coating those that this will will provide. and after the 5th time, all the sylvia will become to be a mandatory zone. and all the homeless people would stevenville whether some of them will fight those. some of them are civilians, they will have 2 choices, either to surround the or to solve island as part of a group of retired generals, frustrated that a year into the war is really, is not achieved, its aims of destroying how mosque and free the remaining hostages. they believe the plan would break what's left of from us and lead it to free the surviving hostages . the plan was made public last month. it was immediately condemned by human rights groups. scholars have also questioned it's legality. during a recent visit to the region, the us secretary of state says he was personally assured by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that is real, is not carrying out the plan with regard to the,

the so called generals plan in the north. let me just say again. first, the united states fully and fundamentally rejection. the 2nd, as i told you, the other day of the government of israel says that it is not the policy of israel and also rejects the plan. the u. s. has threatened to cut weapons deliveries to israel if it does not step up and speed up the flows 8 into northern gaza. we're on this story last spring and no me. but yeah . cove, she is an international human rights lawyer negotiates and mediator. i've had some house in london, know me as we've seen it as reports, human rights groups fit as well as already implementing this plan in northern gauze that what do you make of those days as well? i think there's a lot of ground. so the,

the way seeing the evacuation board is continuously being issued and some families have been evacuated to more than 10 times. and the displaced into areas where they, um, they're no longer have any humane conditions. i met with a number of i was this is revisited the gaza strip last week and they were visiting alonda and they stated that the situation is very key in the in humane. so some women, they said, you know, didn't even have on the way of it because they had just left in the clothes and there was just no way for them to get it. so clearly, you know, it's, the situation is beyond the catastrophic and it is illegal to, you know, carry out forceful evacuations in this manner. and a solution needs to be found. then really, the only solution is to put pressure on prime minister netanyahu to accept the junction proposal on the table, which is being discussed in doha today. so,

you know, the was me to end and it has to be a ceasefire. the hostages oral them hundreds and one of them dead. and then life needs to come home because this, these false evacuations. i'm not going to stall unless there is a ceasefire. you mentioned the hosted, there's hostile just the proponents of the so called generals plan. believe that this would help get the hostages back alive. do you agree with them? the next thing actually, i back to this all the respects. i didn't think that's what the both those of the plan think i doing. i think that the missed oh, the lie that military pressure depending on how you want to look at to the ministry pressure was going to bring the hostage to his back, has been prison. wrong, it's uh well over a year now and a 101 hostages, that's a very,

very large number. have some of them in the eighty's. so some of them were 7 months when they were kidnapped. i think it's, there is nothing. i don't think anyone in israel, including the general, believes that military pressure is going to bring the health just back and it's been stated very clearly by the chief of stuff by the minister of defense. i mean, prime minister netanyahu for his own reasons is keen to prolong a will. to date was the opening of the commission. these 3 parliament, the cost a very long summer recess, which included the period of the so called high holidays. you know, the new year and donkey pool and so called and the 1st thing 1st speech and he talks about a great potential new reliance that he's in visiting with the arab states. what now what she feels in is that potentially some of them on, on his side,

no one would about the hostages. oh, like not one, he did not mention the hostages today. it's just over a week until the us presidential election with post continuing to point to the time system races between comma harris and donald trump. the 2 candidates and buddy 2 vastly different visions for america's role in the world. and people in countries around the globe are watching closely, including in india, the well sized populace nation as a key us partner and india's business and political need is, are assessing the potential impacts of it from o'haris presidency on trade defense and financial ties. he doesn't use shadow yada ripples. i don't know, the human america will soon choose one of these 2 candidates as its president. the results would have consequences, not just for the country, but for countries around the world. all of which are wondering who would be

a better choice for them. some of the highways or donald trump has one of america strategic partners in asia. who would india want to see in the white house? countries like getting the gun really have a preference because they have to deal with whichever candidate is elected. the end of india is in a fortunate place where there is a bipartisan consensus amongst the republicans. i'm the democrats to bid is the relationship with india. why moody and trump have an established relationship from his last presidency? trump has been known to flip flop on policy decisions. so when india, which is a very big abuser, had to reset each time, but any event, southcourt, india, a very big abuser. and prime minister movie, a fantastic man. in the same breath in a trump presidency, we would expect to more isolation. this policy from

a medical overall is trump, has said that he will use doris to ensure effect treatment for the united states and to reduce imports into the united states. so obviously trade could become a friction point in the trump administration, as it was during his 1st presidency when it comes to recent geo politics, movies, bundle needed, put in, hasn't gone down well with a bite and administration, the us had hoped and deal with condemned russia for its invasion of ukraine, but india has been data and on the line stones, something's supposed to be more forgiving on this front. and he's repeatedly promised to end the russia ukraine war if elected williams. here we have groups in india or that is one we had the, the

one to me i have is this father comes from jamaica. her mother was born in present day tonight, exploits say that she will bring with her a culture of familiarity to india. us relations, but i'm like from, she's being vocal about contentious issues like human rights in indianapolis to, to push me in. devising administration has been quite to carefully in terms of handling those issues and has given priority to the strategic partnership and the g o strategic g o. economic convergence between india out of the united states at this time. if come law gives more priority to human rights and these issues of this touch issues, you know, democratic drive back,

sliding and so on. then you would see that the relationship could become a little more dense. uh though i think both sides, we've tried to navigate around then defensive beach is a public and don't have to come out of democrats come a lot higher as of the white house, india would be an important partner for both, especially in the, in the pacific, which the united states has called essentially put its future security and prosperity now, it will never be as popular as the world comp bought in iceland. this is competition to determine the champion of a different kind of sports. the shape of sharing championship brings together the best professionals from across the country. organizers say that it is a more recognition for helping us spend a stable in the countries cold winters. the the, the skin shares are competing and speed and position. i focus on fil a motor from

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