has never happened before the 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. it looks at just stagnate this yet volkswagen might just be the tip of the ice book. i'm a little slack, i am 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 the looking to possibly false management decisions from the past must not be at the expense of employees.

we 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 the israel's future plans. because as the army presses a head with its offensive sign up service, it resembles a blueprints known as the generals found, of all the sylvia will become to be a military result. and all the most people would stevenville whether some of them will fight those. some of them are civilians, they will have 2 choices, either to so rondo or to stall to have you is 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 work as ad

groups. biggest comic uh geminus, volkswagen, land. the future could be on the line. staff representatives announced on monday. the dw intends to close at least 3 plans 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 based this week c o to must shift issued statements hinting at deep costs. he said 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

. the last month dw terminated job, a 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 work as 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 type plots. the fear is real. for a long time jobs at fox walk in the cost of the absolute. this occur when you're getting a business on settling for many people because it fundamentally calls the future into question for august 3rd. so she's very trusted cuts. 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 or fox walking before and now comes the anger. volkswagen a significant problems on one hand, cost sales are far from enough in europe, a 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 permanency thousands could lose their jobs. fox market is the largest industrial employee in germany with 120000 employees. entire regions depends on the automaker. that's why the government is also locked. go to school. this constitutes of the position of the chancellor is clear. the cache of past management mistakes should not be at the expense of the employees, the forgotten type. it is now about preserving and securing jump some of those. if someone get about splits a tool hospitalizations, but fox fog and says without cost reduction, 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 economists and served for over a decade on the gym and government's panel of economic advisers. as the governor continues to teach at votes, the university welcome back to the w 9. today's news is having ripple effects far beyond the w factory towns. how big a blog is this for the german economy as a whole? well, conversely, is a car of john, it is business model, not only the main manufacturers, but also the many suppliers that small and medium sized by us, which altogether made up the icy deal success of the drum and economy. and now this is right and, and i think the defects really very far reaching in very serious germany has been lagging behind other countries and pushing for electric costs, for example. and,

and all the innovations can be up to you 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 batteries 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? a yes, already have some of the announcements from the monthly suppliers, and they will reduce that cost as a sub,

showing that 60 percent of the traveling 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. and given the, you have seen the very strong branch of the sales in china that the profits have d, v d was considerably the last quarter. so it's not only for the folks on this problem . what is the treating whole drum and what i mean, what do you think? i would i would like to play you something. germany's finance minister said recently about the german car industry industry and then get your reaction off towards taking us even though i don't want to be polite. but the european and especially the german car industry, has little to fear 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 compelling. we talked about the issue now. what do you say to comments like that's

have dw and other companies been living off the reputation for a little too long and they're going to be polite, but mr. live knows money. com. is that a pretty to scientist? and to, even if the quantity of the german cars is comparable, we've talked his costs. there's also the problem, the price and the same quality, a chinese car, a much cheaper. and i do not see for the time being uh how german costs can become as competitive as necessary. and the china is marked as an additional cost. if not, if you ever ties card stuff into the drum and come market. and so that is really very difficult problem and difficult to solve because the trains appears has been neglected by the corporate uses and also by john parentheses. as does that mean that the german economic model isn't lacking anymore? in any case, the drum and the model is facing strong had been service model,

consist of exports, industries, and cost. so the problems go beyond the cost sector, have also problems in the past 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 specials of government have in the situation? well, in the shots of the best thing would be to reintroduce the subsidy for life because most of the bodies last december and which has led to a strong decline, the sale to protect the costs, and john gauge what's happening on the country. so these would be the priority. my now 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 stream. way. this was a drug economy would be able to, to, to the end engineer the huge investment program transformation program, let's say about function in euros. and the per month needs to increase all effective g p range. so which would be would be either the range of a to 70 countries on which are being used potential for our lease, a way to the pharmacy spot for the day frame. we have a meeting our selves and to be do not change this. uh, i don't think that we can get out of the products that can be 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. this is renee 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, aust militants in gaza. and his butler in southern lebanon, both of those campaigns which is rel, says, are necessary to secure its borders. have stokes 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 and code 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's own. 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 man 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 totally those that this will will provide. and after that time, all the sylvia will become to be a mandatory zone and all the combust people will stevenville,

where the some of them will fight those. some of them are civilians, they will have 2 choices, either to surround bill or to solve island. this part of the 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 to 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, 1st, 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 media to check them house in london. know me as we've seen it as reports, human rights groups. it is really is 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 way seeing the evacuation board is continuously being issued and some families have been evacuated to more than 10 times and the displace

into areas where they um, they're no longer have any humane conditions. i met with a number of i was, this is who visited the gaza strip last week and they were visiting london 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 web 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 hosted of just the proponents of the so called generals plan believe that this would help get the hospitals back alive. do you agree with them? a good thing actually, i think to this all the respects, i didn't think that sort of the both those of the plan think i do, i think that the mis oh, the lie that it's a military pressure depending on how you want to look 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 has 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 that don't people and so called and this is the 1st day 1st speech . and he talks about a great potential new reliance that he's in visiting with the arab states. what now what he 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 poles continuing to point to the time system. braces 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 papa and india's business and political need is, are assessing the potential impacts of a trunk, o'haris presidency on trade, defense, and financial ties. the w's shadow, yada ripples. i don't normally, 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 coming to harris or donald trump as one of america strategic partners in asia, who would india want to see in the white house?

countries like india can 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 build their relationship with india. why movie 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, how to reset each time today, any event jump chord india, a very big abuse, and 5 minutes to move to a fantastic man. in the same breath in a trump presidency, we would expect to more isolation. this policy from a medical overall, trump has said that people use doris to insure for a treat for the united states and to reduce imports into the

united states. so obviously treated according to become a friction point in the trump administration. as it was during his 1st presidency, when it comes to reason, geo politics, movies, bundle needed, put in, hasn't gone down well with the biden 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 jump is 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 as that is one. we had the, the one to me i have is this for the 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 and the united states at this time it's come law gives us more priority to human rights. and these issues of this touch issues, you know, democratic black back sliding and so on. then you could see that the relationship could become a little more dense. uh though i think both sides,

we've tried to navigate around, then defensive. be just the public and don't know tom or the democrats come a lot higher since 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 fee is competition to determine the champion of a different kind of support, the shape of sharing championship brings together the best professionals from across the country. organize those say they just said more recognition for helping us spend a stable in the countries cold winters. the are these good shares are competing in speed and position. i focus on fil a motor from north or if it's a combination of many factors. and speed is one of them that up, along with being reason, we gentle with the sheep and approaching

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