next negligible effect on the labor market that's a statement for example by a semi official research institute from the or from the labor department here in germany but others like the german industry of chamber and calmness they say that with seven hundred fifty thousand jobs directly affected by a no deal breck's it because of all the company work all the exports that are involved that there is reason to worry and one research institute for example in holland over in lower saxony over and saxon on hold they calculated that one hundred thousand jobs would be lost in the case of a no deal back set and when you look at the stock market people are very uneasy i get the feeling when i talk to people along with the trade issue of course. and trade a really wearing the people down here and it's weighing heavily on sentiment all right there in frankfurt thank you so much germany's largest retail group metro is holding its annual meeting today chick entrepreneur billionaire daniel creatin ski is now bought a stake in the troubled company but it's not clear whether metro agrees with him on the need to

he is currently the representative director of arena, the economic research institute for northeast asia, which is based in nigata, which i find interesting because so often we see things happening in tokyo or washington, d.c. that having based in a perspective outside of the main city is great. he is also a professor -- he is the representative director of the economic research institute of northeast asia. but also a professor at the graduate school of public policy at the university of tokyo. he also served as previously as deputy vice-minister of finance for international affairs at japan's ministry of finance. he is a stanford university graduate. has his master's and ph.d. in economics from stanford. he began list career as a research fellow at brookings. am i allowed to say that word here? then he was an assistant and associate professor in the economics department at johns hopkins. afterwards, he was a full professor at the university of tokyo. and he also served during this time as a consultant at the board of governors of the federal row desereserve system imf at washington, d.c

we spoke to an expert on automated driving he works for one of germany's leading research institutes for road vehicles ariens lucky started automotive technology has been working on autonomous driving for years even trying it out on the institute's test track we ask him to explain in more detail how self driving cars work. the auto industry is working on prototypes that are able to recognize their surroundings the. radar system is installed behind this logo so it's not visible but the radar sense can see through the logo and. down here we see a laser base can lead us and. it registers the surroundings with one hundred eighty degree scan in front of the vehicle. another radar sensors installed next to it that monitors the area up to two hundred meters away. about hidden away here on the site is a camera system. its able to detect the road markings. and other vehicles on the road. but many of these sensors have their weak points they only work optimally and good weather conditions. and the dozens of cameras and lead a census optical system with fear and hope can heavy rain big drops of

talk more about those issues is mr durst with director of the stockholm international peace research institute mr done with the report of the munich conference states and china as the biggest what to western democracies is this a sign an indication that both could be on a collision course well i think that you've seen over the past four or five years steadily increasing tensions between russia and the u.s. and its allies and in the last couple of years also a build up of tensions between the u.s. and china so i think there is and there is clearly increasing toxicity increasing poison in the international system whether that means a collision course in terms of something so dramatic and so often we we don't really want to. think about it i mean that's that's forecasting that's not for me to say the evidence is of an international system of political relations which is in trouble at the moment and in which there's less cooperation than there had been before this is supposed to be a gathering good balance multilateralism and call for action but we comes to issues like iran the u.s. is pushing for

he's currently the representative director of arena, the economic can research institute for northeast asia, based in niigata, which i find interesting because so often we just see things happening in tokyo or washington, d.c. but having someone based in a perspective outside of the main city is great. he's also a professor -- he's a representative director of the economic research institute of northeast asia, but also a professor at the graduate school of public policy at the university of turkeokyo. he served as the deputy minister of finance. he's a tstanford university graduate with a ph.d. and masters in finance. and he began his career at brookings. and then he was an assistant associate professor in the economics department at johns hopkins. afterwards, he was a full professor at the university of tokyo and served during this time as a consultant. at the board of governors of the federal reserve system and the imf in washington, d.c. he's worked as chief economist for the world bank's east asia and pacific region from 1998 to 2001. and then subsequent to that, he was with the mi

already has assets in angola and boats wanna according to the stockholm international peace research institute arms sales also rising rapidly between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen russian arms sales to african countries almost doubled for more on russia's business interests in africa i'm joined by alex vine head africa program at chatham house in london good to have you with us so we already hear that china is a big investor compared to china or the united states for example how does russia compare when it comes to investment in africa. russia's time compared with china or even the united states all the european union it's very very small it's been very very focused on some of the. concessions that you've talked about to be boots. books site in guinea and defense sales but you've also mentioned what the russians want to get playing catch up and so in twenty nineteen they're planning their first half of russia africa summit for example which will probably be held later this year so what do you think is russia's the strategy for africa is it about getting a piece of the action there is it a

we spoke to an expert on automated driving he works for one of germany's leading research institutes for road vehicles and rians lucky started automotive technology has been working on autonomous driving for years even trying it out on the institute's test track we asked him to explain in more detail how self driving cars work. the auto industry is working on prototypes that are able to recognize their surroundings the technology includes cameras radar and ultrasound sensors they tell the car where it is and who for what is in the vicinity. a radar system is installed behind this logo so it's not visible but the radar can see through the logo and. down here we see a laser base can elude us and. it registers the surroundings with one hundred eighty degrees in front of the vehicle. another radar sensor is installed next to it that monitors the area up to two hundred meters away. hidden away here on the site is a camera system where. it's able to detect the road markings. and other vehicles on the road. but many of these sensors have their weak points they only work optimally and good w

well for more let's bring in michael here he is the head of the german economic institute a research institution promoting a liberal economic and social order he joins me from brussels this morning i walk him through the program michael we just heard that the deal between may and e.u. leaders is not open for renegotiation said there do you see any way this deadlock can be broken before march twenty ninth the day. the only way to do it is that the british side has to change its position and maybe we'll ask to the idea of staying in the customs union that will be solve a lot of problems on the border discussion we had on the island also an island on the other hand there may be a little bit of room for maneuver if you redesign a little bit as a backstop but at the sense the backstop should be there because it's like a sanction if they were not able in the transition period to solve the problem of the north on an island. polar so i see not really a lot of chances to get really new idea and you'll deal as the house of commons asked for so i see it's a long way to go the uncertainty will stay and that

we have a roughly zero hour departing he's external fellow at the cardiff crime and security research institute and fall associate at the brazilian forum on public security also in sao paolo paolo brilliance is a police officer and firearms instructor and in lisbon portugal near our bertie an international journalist who's been extensively covering this issue good to have him here everybody i wish it was under better circumstances mir. just went through a whole list of stories and experiences i'm just wondering of i think this anecdotal people have bad luck or the actual solid stats to back up the fact that it is very dangerous to live in brazil. it is very dangerous to leave in brazil especially if you are woman brazil has one of the higher highest rates of femicide in the world so it is comprehensible in my view that we men who have been victims of domestic violence and of an all in all of these stories are worried about what can happen to them with these new gun laws so brazil is not place to leave in general i mean i live there and a lot of foreign people if there were no problems and even

that's the view from the country's oldest independent research institute, the national institute of economicrecast for british economic growth this year to 1.5% — down from the previous forecast of 1.9%. it's blamed a slowdown in the uk, and overseas. that's a difference of 0.04%. ——that‘s a difference of 0.4%. earlier we spoke to amit kara, national institute of economic and social research. brexit uncertainty has intensified and this is dragging down economic growth in the near term, and unless this uncertainty is resolved, economic growth will remain weak for a prolonged period of time. we are also saying that if, at the end of this process, the uk ends up without a deal, that economic growth will slow down quite sharply but it's unlikely to be a disaster for the simple reason that policy will step in. there are some contingency plans that are already, there have already been announced, monetary policy will step in. and we also expect the chancellor to step in with additional actions, may be tax cuts and may be even more spending. so, in other words, of course it's important to have some

dr peter barr assumes head of the measles program and senior scientist at the kenya medical research institute welcome to you both heidi let me start with you though what is the driver the main driver between this alarming set of statistics that we've received from the u.n. . well i think there's no one main driver and that's part of the challenge we do see as you mentioned earlier and a dramatic eighty three thousand cases of measles are across europe alone and there we know that it's not education it's not income it's less likely to be access so there we think we see that there is more choice to refuse a back seat in other parts of the world it's probably a mix of more infrastructure people on the move it's quite a mix of issues right and it's converging into quite a trauma absolutely all right peter in nairobi then presumably therefore there is less access perhaps less information about the benefits of immunization of vaccination is that what is behind the rise in easels on the african continent it's a combination or believe this if you're. at the end of that be what drives missiles out bri

johnson, and haiti's ministry of health, to create gheskio, which is now the second oldest research institution in the world dedicated to the fig against aids. the french acronym means "the haitian group for the study of kaposi sarcomand opportunistic infections," as the term aids had not yet been coined. >> people were dying within six mont to a year. so it was scary because nobody knew how it was transmitted. and we knew that we were on something big. >> reporter: aids was so prevalent in haiti that a myth arose that being haitian was a risk factor for the disease. bupape and his team produced groundbreaking studies that helped disprove the widespread notion that haitians were especially susceptible to ai. and early on, haiti's ministry of health closed all commercial blood banking after pape's team .onnected blood transfusions in haiti to infection >> and i think this is tlehe mot simportant measure we took early on to control the aids oridemic. >> rr: in the early 2000s, gheso began providing life-saving antiretroviral medicine to haitians for free, with support from the global fund and the

and the latest survey out by one of germany's leading research institutes provides little comfort it says germany could face as many as one hundred thousand job losses in the wake of a disorderly breaks it germany relies heavily on exports for growth and no deal breaks it would likely mean new custom duties on exports to britain causing a slump in german exports the survey says coal makers could be hardest hit with v.w. top of the list thousand jobs could be at risk china meanwhile could lose around fifty nine thousand jobs the total worldwide could be more than six hundred thousand. meanwhile signs of the potential damage to britain's economy are also becoming clear a new survey by the number and school of economics shows that since the two thousand and sixteen referendum british companies have shifted investment from britain to the e.u. stepping it up by as much as twelve percent around ten billion euros most come from the services sector the british economy is heavily reliant on meanwhile the e.u. is investment in britain has done dropping by as much as eleven percent in the last

get more on this now we are joined by ben hodges a strategic expert at the washington based research institute the center for european policy analysis and former commander of the u.s. army in europe he joins us from the munich security conference this evening welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us sir i'd just like to begin by asking you because germany's defense minister ursula funder line she spoke about overturn of competition between great powers and distinguished really nato's values and interests from those of other alliances and therefore i'd like to know from your perspective is the nato alliance strong enough right now to stand up against those changing dynamics. sara thanks for give me the opportunity to address that nato is the most successful alliance in history the world we've been through a lot of different challenges over the last seventy years we've had multiple from the united states to end point multiple presidents different congresses and different secretaries of defense but the commitment to united states remains steadfast and so i i think american lead

vanessa newman latin america analyst at the foreign policy research institute and insulted a month or so in the u.k. is clint hardings director of latin for by war welcome to all of you bull what did you make of this lima group meeting and seeing one guy day standing next to the vice president of the united states. this came of no surprise essentially we've already know that one way though is essentially washington and man here in venice way that he has received the backing of donald trump and his government since day one. to see him in but what are his allies obviously it comes as no surprise the announcement made in bogota where a little bit more surprising however the united states announce a very light sanctions we can say much less than we expected them to announced and really no sort of measures that were not any impact on the country at all and the limb agreement south issued a public statement in which they surprisingly ruled out any support for any military intervention into venezuela essentially taking it off the table so this brings a great sigh of relief to venezuela and a

paolo we have roughly zero hour to party he's external fellow at the cardiff crime and security research institute and fall associate at the brazilian forum on public security also in sao paolo paolo brilliancy is a police officer and firearms instructor and in lisbon portugal near our bertie an international journalist who's been extensively covering this issue good to have you here everybody i wish it was under better circumstances mir. just went through a whole list of stories and experiences i'm just wondering of i think this anecdotal people have bad luck of the actual solid stats to back up the fact that it is very dangerous to live in brazil. it is very dangerous to leave in brazil especially if you are woman brazil has one of the higher highest rates of femicide in the world so it is comprehensible in my view that we men who have been victims of domestic violence and of men are not all of these stories are worried about what can happen to them with these new gun laws so resilin is not place to leave in general i mean i live there and a lot of foreign people leave there were no problems and

i have work that i have done through my self-sufficiency policy research institute which shows beneficial long-term effects of the eitc. women with kids growing up, if you will, through the 20s and 30s, under a more generous eitc are earning more in their 40s. that's pretty striking result. we don't have solid evidence of long-term effects of the minimum wage but there's some hints of evidence that the the long-term effects are in the opposite direction because for some people they shut down labor market opportunities. >> thank you. now for the reality check, we're going to hear from our two economists who live in the policy world as opposed to the academic world. jared, let's start with you, what's your -- give us your general reaction to the ideas we've heard about and then also if you could comment on whether you think any of these might get some legs in the policy world. >> yeah, so i really like not just the ideas, but i want to very much associate myself with comments that have been made to kick us off. if anyone here has read my work and you have no reason to do so, the -- i'm much

but divestment is a senior research at the stockholm international peace research institute he says the report's findings are worrying but nothing new the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have been supplying weapons to different militias in yemen after for that matter also in syria and in libya so that we now find very clear evidence that weapons also and in the hands of all or more extreme militias including those related to al-qaeda is not surprising at all surprising thing is more that the united states department of defense only now seems to make an issue of that i think if you supply weapons to militia groups you should assume that they go to loose somebody even many of them and these militia groups are more want organized and trained in the same way as the more professional armies of the united states itself and of course we have to remember that also the united states at times has lost weapons itself already so if you if you go further down that kind kind of the hierarchy you could say you are the risk but you're actually going to lose dose weapons to to your real opponents and it's very

going to get it one way or another but you know good is being done there the national genome research institute is using it to diagnose a disease called george's syndrome and they use facial recognition as you could tell in the face so that you know and they could prevent it or get it early also it helps find missing children are there some discrepancy there they say oh no it doesn't but in the new delhi nineteen thousand missing kids they found fourteen thousand the media is focusing on the five thousand that haven't been found and they are court says well this technology is not working we have to find five thousand but they found fourteen thousand so it does good can it be used for nefarious purposes yes and microsoft c.e.o. acknowledges that and wants limitations placed when it comes to human rights violation of privacy so i mean i think his intentions are good and i don't agree with him that would be whatever see a human catastrophe to rid told technology that can benefit humanity if you will i think that's you know that would be a bad thing. well i think the obvious question is you know it

than here really helping that a consolidation you know i recent report by middle east media research institute says the relations between the two palestinian parties are now at the point quote where each side is saying that the other no longer represents the palestinian people that's a direct quote how the palestinians feel about this in your opinion and did they do they feel represented by any of the parties at this table can the whole affair result in an intifada against hamas. well the distinct feeling for this assumption is the opening of bowlers is the. boxes saw and instead of claiming this and i think that we challenge how must accept the idea of elections we ought to be for it well to do good to go out and we will bring democracy back into action for there by the scene of one of the guys i do you know which is very important to us to daily keep this sort of emotional think embryonic democracy that we started with it's should not die down one second and go to the issue is that these sort of claims clam on the counter claim it does how them ballast and it doesn't really help how much as

ethiopia so notion i do is research institute for global dialogue a south african think tank she saysit would take a long time for the african union to effectively deal with the refugee crisis. i think it's a really massive task and agenda for the african union but italy given the fact that the african union has to deal with its internal resourcing crisis as well in terms of capacity dealing with the fact that it has to also create a reform agenda and of course it's just also ratified and announced the african continental free trade agreement all of the issues that you put that you highlighted actually synergetic they link to each other so it's the repression the internal domestic issues of what we've heard in the inset around the refugees internally displaced people who are fleeing conflict at a domestic level it's also the question of economic migration it's also the question of climate change and how climate change affects in terms of humanitarian crisis so right now the african union has to deal with its own internal capacity and whether or not it is able to address these structur

vanessa newman latin america analyst at the foreign policy research institute and insulted a month or so in the u.k. as clint hardings director of latin for by war welcome to all of you pull what did you make of this lima group meeting and seeing quite why day standing next to the vice president of the united states. this came of no surprise essentially we've already know that one way though is essentially washington and man here in venice way that he has received the backing of donald trump and his government since day one. to see him in but what are his allies obviously it comes as no surprise the announcement made in bogota were a little bit more surprising however the united states well i know it's a very light sanctions we can say much less than we expected them to announced and really no sort of measures that would have any impact on the country at all and the limb agreement south issued a public statement in which they surprisingly ruled out any support for any military intervention into venezuela essentially taking it off the table so this brings a great sigh of relief to vene