is a risk right to make in months there from a.b.n. amro joining us there from amsterdam thank you so much for your assessment thank you very much. well one of the side effects of technological change is that electrical devices become obsolete faster and faster creating mountains of electronic waste that is poison for the environment and expensive to recycle hong kong has hired a german company to help solve its crippling electronic waste problem with a plant that could serve as a model for other recycling centers in the region. modern robot technology in this case it's not being used to produce devices but to dismantle them the one conquered ministration is paying the berlin company outta three hundred eighteen million euros over a period of ten years the company has to rid the city of its electrical waste. a lot of the material that arises from coal is exported to third world countries. where it often gets disassembled in a very cold state and that's one of the principal concern we should not be exporting. life. hung connor's not only one

is a risk all right to american months there from a.b.n. amro joining us there from amsterdam thank you so much for your assessment. so far twenty eighteen has been a bad year for the currency of several emerging economies and several factors to blame but the dramatic fall of the turkish lira in recent days has prompted a major sell off to his currency has lost more than forty percent since the beginning of twenty eighteen due to surging inflation and latin america's second largest economy is also in trouble with the argentinean paizo sliding at an ever faster rate south africa's rand hit a two year low due to a sluggish economy and india's rupee and the russian ruble are also down the rupees fall is partly due to rising oil prices and the ruble has been negatively impacted by sanctions so argentina struggled hard to avoid bankruptcy only a few years ago its central bank has taken the nuclear option of boosting rates to exile buttons highest as it tries to maintain stability. almost thirty argentine pesos for one u.s. dollar that's a ten percent

right to make in months there from a.b.n. amro joining us there from amsterdam thank you so much for your assessment. and i have more business for you coming up a short time but first is back to terror in the struggle against a government repression in russia that's right monica it is continuing the russian government now has withdrawn funding from one of the country's most prominent human rights organization the group called for human rights is led by activist lev. who is now fighting to keep it afloat among those most worried about the group's survival are the people it helps of course and these include teenagers arrested for criticizing the government of course their distraught relatives. to get this demonstrator fears the worst concern that more youth will be accused of what the government calls extremist activities of the. protestors in moscow to feel powerless in the face of. a growing number of russians are under legal pressure because of the legislation against so-called extremism authorities are applying the law with broa

earlier we asked analyst tom king months off dutch bank a.b.n. amro if the fierce grepping why the markets asked the ticket prices developes if that's really justified here is more. well a definite if it's if it's turkey itself it is it's a big worry it's a huge discussion now for all developing economies of what's going to occur now fortunately european banks have kept it really is a rising star in portfolios as a supposed to taking on big big money but as we've seen the other developing markets that it's hopefully unrelated. south africa even of all struggled with their currency since this as investors get a bit more realisation the e.-m. is a risk. all right well business news later in the show but now back somewhere to and russia worries about the fate of the children that's right funny the russian government has been drawn funding from one of the country's most prominent human rights organizations the group called for human rights is led by activists left. who is now fighting to keep it afloat among those most wanted about the group's survival ot