i'm good how the authors in berlin welcome china will change a key policy to ease restrictions on foreign companies investing in the country most importantly china will no longer force foreign companies to give up technology secrets in exchange for market access according to a top economic official complaints that beijing demands the disclosure of intellectual property from foreign investors have been at the heart of the u.s. china trade dispute the provisions designed to clarify investment rules are expected to be rubber stamped at the annual meeting of the country's national legislative. well made in china twenty twenty five that's the banner under which the world's second largest economy is plugging its plan to transform itself from the world's factory floor to a high tech manufacturing hot and it's a plan investors abroad are keeping a keen eye on a staggering nine hundred fifty thousand foreign companies already operate in china if invested a total of some two point one trillion u.s. dollars so far that's the equivalent of a sixth of chinese total economic output last year and that's

business in berlin welcome now if you believe the critics the free internet in europe is under threat proponents of the sector up in arms vicky pedia shut down its national sides in germany and other e.u. countries yesterday in protest against the e.u.'s attempt to better protect copyright the e.u. wants to make providers like facebook or you tube responsible for copyright violations they uses commit on their sites providers not threaten to employ special algorithms so-called upload filters to block users from uploading content containing copyrighted material. who on earth would ban this song from the web. well you tube might do it for one. if the new e.u. copyright directive comes into force content sharing platforms such as you tube might end up using automatic upload filters to prevent copyrighted songs or photos with registered logos from being posted on social media there are concerns that posts containing users' own cover versions are holiday snaps which would be allowed under the new rules might also be erased by faulty content matching technology and that the filtering softwar

is the business i was in berlin welcome boeing attempts to win back the confidence of regulators and the public without inviting increased oversight its present his proposed changes to flood software on its seven three seven max act profit on wednesday that's off the two deadly crashes involving the model in five months also on wednesday the head of the us federal aviation administration defended the agency's practice of relying on aircraft makers to help certify their own plates for safety he he told lawmakers in washington that the f.a.a. would need ten thousand more employees to handle all aircraft so if a case internally. here in the seven three seven max crashes have raised questions about the f.a.a. has oversight of how airplanes a certified according to senator ted cruz who says consumers are rightly concerned the fact of the matter is that these crashes and subsequent reports on how the seven thirty seven max was approved have badly shaken consumer confidence in aviation. as in other industries where a small mistake can have catastrophic consequences trust is the currency of

this is your business as in berlin welcome investigators say a piece of wreckage from the crash a g.o.p. plane shows a similar assessing to the one on the lie on the plane that came down last year the fragments from a tail stabilizer could reveal whether the jets nose was being directed downwards a photo also shows the plane's flight data recorder is damaged but intact was released by the laboratory in france where the jet's two black boxes are being analyzed it's hoped they will reveal the cause of the tragedy which killed one hundred fifty seven people second crash involving a boeing seven three seven max within months of the whole fleet to be grounded worldwide. meanwhile boeing continues to build a seven three seven months but.

as in berlin welcome. zimbabwe is about to scrap rules that prevent the control of local platinum mines by foreign mining companies the government said to the plans were part of its new campaign zimbabwe is open for business the country is the second largest platinum reserves in the world currently foreign companies may hold no more than a forty nine percent share diamond and platinum mine operations under the black empowerment law introduced under robert mugabe's rule. africa's largest ach area ethiopian airlines operated a flight with an all female flight crew for international women's day today the plane landed in the norwegian capital all slow this afternoon where it was welcomed by diplomats and the ethiopian community the airline says the flight was also operated by an all female crew when it took off from it is a baby if you hope in africa's most profitable airline with flights to more than fifty cities across the continent. now can you imagine life without a mobile phone that applies to all genders

this is the business as in berlin welcome investigators say a piece of wreckage from the crash g.o.p. plane shows a similar setting to the one on the lion the plane that came down last year the fragment from a tail stabilizer could reveal whether the jets nose was being directed downwards a photo also shows the plane's flight data recorder is damaged but in times it was released by the laboratory in france where the jet's two black boxes are being analyzed it's hoped they will reveal the cause of the tragedy which killed one hundred fifty seven people second crash involving a boeing seven three seven max within months the whole fleet to be grounded worldwide. boeing continues to build a seven three seven months but stopped deliveries until further notice order books are full one hundred clients of put in orders for nearly five thousand planes the company itself the grounding of the seven three seven max fleet critics say what took you so long also the f.a.a. is now under fire for taking too much time to ground the planes in the u.s. . what is it about these and craft what caused the b

i'm in berlin welcome china will change a key policy to ease restrictions on foreign companies investing in the country most importantly china will no longer force foreign companies to give up technology secrets in exchange for market access according to a top economic official complaints that beijing demands the disclosure of intellectual property from foreign investors have been at the heart of the u.s. china trade dispute the provisions designed to clarify investment rules are expected to be rubber stamped at the annual meeting of the country's national that's. well made in china twenty twenty five that's the banner under which the world's second largest economy is plugging its plan to transform itself from the world's factory floor to a high tech manufacturing heart and it's a plan investors abroad are keeping a keen eye on a staggering nine hundred fifty thousand foreign companies already operate in china if invested a total of some.

this is the business as in berlin welcome. today is the day or it would have been that britain wanted to leave the e.u. but with the british political class so more concerned about political infighting and economic sanity the date has been moved to a. prospect of a no deal breaker still not completely off the table but his trade negotiators need to set agreements in place around the world to ensure trade can continue smoothly let's have a look at where britain stands right now as a member of the youth the u.k. currently is part of around forty deals around with partners around the world covering a total of seventy two countries those deals account for around fifteen percent of britain's overseas trade but if the u.k. leaves the you without a deal of bullying mediately drop out of those agreements so to avoid losing out of the event of a heartbreak that it needs to take some action i wish we could show you the graphics but of handing over the wall has just left us so far the u.k. has only arranged so-called continuities agreeme

specializes in china and reported from the country for more than a decade before moving here to berlin welcome to d w i mean we've been hearing one of the big headlines to come out of the congress the first day it is about the slowdown in chinese economic growth six point four percent in december in the december quarter of last year but it's still vastly outperforming most western economy so why are people worried good question it is vastly outperforming other western economies and it's also this is a comet growth is also happening off an ever bigger base if you like so a drop in percentage doesn't necessarily mean that things are packing in that they kept him dramatically worse so there's that to think about you know how realistic is this negative. view on the other hand we are seeing quite rapidly shrinking growth and there are systemic problems so and for example debt which has been rising very fast in recent years so they're off things that people are worried about ok but china grows at six point four percent i think of the projection today was for six point five percent while the us is at

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terrorism and crisis management the german institute for international security affairs here in berlin welcome to d w what are we learning about this the main suspect branson towns well we don't have any independent information yet on who this person is self described he is working man an australian who didn't go to university and the scribes and self as an average person who just believes in racist white supremacist ideas and thought he had to take action so unfortunately i can't provide you with any other further information now and this is actually also i think responsible to wait because as we heard from the police there may be also another person potentially involved in talk of some sort of money fester that he didn't publish what have you heard about well this is true i would underline what was just said about spreading material i'm thank goodness this isn't available that easy anymore but yes there was a seventy page something manifest the where he sets out his world view was actually quite savvy trying to speak to different audiences sort of anticipating a lot of questions of what woul

greetings from berlin and welcome to news from arts and culture with me karen how instead and i'll be joined shortly by a man who has mastered the art of immersing the masses in his music. cilla. and is germany's most successful electronic music artist he's just released his tenth studio album or morning hour which he says is one of his most diverse a musical journey with an impressive list of guest musicians. but first springtime in life so you can eat certain eastern germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork the leipsic book fair is the second largest in germany after frankfurt and one of its big events is the annual leipsic book award for european understanding. awarded on wednesday night to the russian american journalist author and activist mush i guess in a long time and very outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin and his brand of strongman politics she was awarded the prize for her book the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed russia which judges have said offers a persuasive lifeline in times when the flames of intolerance are spr

reading them from berlin and welcome to news from arts and culture with me karen how instead and i'll be joined shortly by a man who has mastered the art of the merced thing the masses in his music. alias. germany's most successful electronic music artist has just released his tenth studio album. or morning hour which he says is one of his most diverse musical journey with an impressive list of guest musicians. but first spring time in life so you can eat certain eastern germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork the leipzig book fair is the second largest in germany after frankfurt and one of its big events is the annual leipsic book award for european understanding. awarded on wednesday night to the russian american journalist author and activist mush i guess been a long time and very outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin and his brand of strongman politics she was awarded the prize for her book the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed russia which judges have said offers a persuasive lifeline in times when the flames of intolerance are

a warm welcome for berlin and to today's edition of arts and culture i'm karen homestead and we've got a gender bending show lined up with these top stories. american idol guard artist laurie anderson gets the run of hamburg's monumental effort how money for four days she's wowing audiences with her multitude of creative impulses. it's more than just a buzzword in twenty nineteen we take a look at gender sensitive product design and its implications for all genders. and via not is germany's version of fat thursday when women take to the streets to claim they're part of the festivities a tradition that marks the start of carnival in the rhineland. but we start with the american artist laurie anderson who has never let herself be confined into any particular genre or box since her formative years in one nine hundred seventy s. new york anderson has been a figurehead of the oven guard morphing easily from musician to filmmaker to performance artist and even to inventor of electronic instruments and gender ambiguity is also a longtime focus of her artistic persona and here excuse me is wha

welcome to d.w. business asia i'm going to get johns in berlin thanks for joining us so the truce between one and beijing has been extended but the fallout from the still and results of the u.s. china trade conflict as nevertheless taken a toll on factory output across asia activity in china's vast a manufacturing sector contracted for the third straight month raising questions about beijing's ability to stabilize and already cooling economy japan's factory gauge fell at the shoppers pace in two and a half years amid a slump in orders and data from south korea shows its exports plummeted only india is bucking the trend with the expanding of the fastest pace in over a year. now that's a lot of data of course let's bring in our market correspondent buson to fill all the data with life. we are of cause you used to at least two digit growth figures coming out of asia and now we see all these cooling down in asia is an important market for european business how worried do we have to be. well quite worried if you take the german automakers for example all the suppliers for the car industry china and its growin

welcome to the business i'm joined in in berlin thanks for joining us a balancing act for boeing as it attempts to win back the confidence of regulators and the public without inviting increased oversight it's presented proposed changes to flight software on its seven three seven max aircraft that's after two a deadly crashes involving the model in five months the plan came as lawmakers the madad answers from the u.s.

berlin. and probably fairly s. welcome to the bone the sleeper last season shellcode were in the champions league spots it's a far cry from where they find themselves now teetering dangerously close to the relegation zone to many go to tesco is out and incomes of stevens coach for a third stint to help drag the side of the table his first game in charge was set to be no walk over a tie against leipsic could they get back to winning ways let's take a look. at a legend returns stevens won three trophies in his first stint with shakur including the way for a cup and was named the club's coach of the century in nineteen ninety nine now he's back in the spotlight task was saving them from a disastrous season. statements new rain almost got off to a perfect start in just the second minute i bought smart goal was ruled out for offside. what six took advantage ten minutes later a world class safe from alexander nubile not enough to prevent the open up. i seem then applying the finishing touch but it was shambolic defending from sh

brady is on the streets of berlin covering that march welcome cater there must be a great deal of excitement that great attorney is joining the march the chancellor's office in berlin. well there certainly is we've seen huge turnout in recent weeks up to twenty thousand children skipping school here in berlin to call for action against climate change and we're expecting to see numbers around that size today as well now at the moment those school students are making their way to the prime number gate here where crater is indeed about to make a speech as well and having spoken sort of the children earlier this morning they said themselves that they saw a great a as an inspiration she was largely the reason why they were here today and they've already been a series of speakers on stage what have they been demanding. yes there has been some young speakers from various european cities from switzerland from neighboring poland old making very similar demands they want to see action from the world your motivations against climate change and what's interesting over the past few weeks the demographic

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march into its money is the representative of the council of the evangelical church in berlin and brussels he welcomes the interior ministries offer under this program those in need of protection will also be selected according to the criteria of the un refugee relief organization u.n.h.c.r. and be assigned mentors. was the initiative was proposed by the interior ministry and it's a food from the mention the pilot project allows up to five hundred people to come to europe safely and legally. of. people who don't have residence permits for three years. it's a good solution. because it factors integration into their lives from the outset. and. goes well the private partnership program will launch in twenty nineteen and state programs might follow. it's an initiative that has much in common with the humanitarian corridor. twenty refugees have now been in sorrento for about six months. it's a picturesque town west of the coast about an hour's drive south of naples. two families from southern sudan and eritrea live in a current us run shared house in the middle of town. initially operate and her husband st

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welcome to this i'm joined in berlin thanks for joining us a balancing act for boeing as it attempts to win back the confidence of regulators and the public without inviting increased oversight its presented proposed changes to flight software on its seven three seven max aircraft that's after two a deadly crashes involving the model in five months the plan came as lawmakers the mad answers from the u.s. aviation authority which approved the planes for use. boeing has been demonstrating a software fix that it hopes will prevent any more of it seven three seven max passenger jets flying themselves into the ground to show the world is on top of the problems that may have caused two crashes killed almost three hundred fifty people . the seven three seven is a safe airplane the seven three seven family is a safe airplane family and the seven three seven max builds on that tremendous history of safety that we've seen for the last almost fifty years boeing says the software fix is almost ready to go but the u.s.'s safety authority the f.a.a. threw that into doubt on wednesday denying it ha

a welcome to do business i want to get jones in berlin and chinese take company why is on a charm offensive the normally secretive company is not the only roading out and media welcome mat at its headquarters in china it is also had just opened a cyber security law in brussels in a bid to show what transparency in europe. the security labs launched comes amid lobbying efforts by washington to shine while way over concerns its equipment could help china carry out digital espionage while way executives hope the new center will reassure e.u. policymakers about the company's cyber security efforts we believe that both cost and these trust should be based on facts. not physics not speculation not that it's real. and we believe that fact must be verifiable. and verification. must be based on. the sun our world our wireless companies to review the source code running wild ways network year the industry understands that a combined effort is needed to bolster security laws there is no silver bullet i'm sure we cannot guarantee you one hundred percent security such things do not exist collaboration i

welcome to the business i'm on in berlin thanks for joining us as the u.k. grapples with how best to leave the e.u. businesses all over the block have to prepare themselves for whatever form it may take if it happens at all a new report from germany suggests that's easier said than done. putting aside talk of having one's cake and eating it german confection is it just some of the european traders who want they could struggle with a disorderly breck's it the result of a survey published on thursday suggests forty seven percent of german firms with interests in the u.k. are underprepared for what its departure from the e.u. could bring. with us is stricken position and that's alarming certainly it also reflects the uncertainty of a situation in which all scenarios are still on the table as of today and that it is difficult for companies to prepare for all of those scenarios and therefore hoping for a political solution and in particular that there will be a long a transition period in which companies can prepare for specific scenarios as far as the quality of

welcome to d.w. business i'm in in berlin thanks for joining us now the e.u. has issued a reminder to its member states along the lines of we're all in this together specifically on the issue of cyber security it wants a joint approach in combat in risks to their five g. networks especially brisk that could come from chinese tech suppliers like wall way but instead of banning wall wave that he was hoping that cooperation within the block could offer a better protection competition to run europe superfast five g. networks is fierce when it comes to deciding who can be trusted with the vast amounts of information that will pass through them the european commission thinks there's safety in numbers is recommending the nation share data on five g. cyber security risks with one another. we have to protect everybody's privacy we have to protect our business secrets we have to protect. we sure will be connected with chief networks the commission was specific about where its concern lies it's with china and particularly huawei some failed companies to close the link to

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hello and welcome to do business africa jones in berlin good to have you with us diamond rich botswana has offered to lend to neighboring same bob where ninety five million dollars in private sector loans to help ease the country's economic crisis and the united nations central emergency response fund has announced it will allocate ten million u.s. dollars for humanitarian assistance as millions of people in zimbabwe are on the brink of starvation the once prosperous southern african country is struggling with a currency crisis massive unemployment and drought. the situation in zimbabwe grows increasingly desperate each day the government has already been knocking on the neighbors' doors begging bowl in hand and even further afield but the country is regarded as too high risk as a borrower that's no consolation for ordinary citizens who are struggling to make ends meet amid rising prices and falling household incomes in and. i don't work but my husband has a business selling bananas that he scavenge and. so now i can't get enough money for my child to go to school because we have to pa

island welcome to do business africa jones in berlin good to have you with us.diamond rich botswana has offered to lend to neighboring sim bob webb ninety five million dollars in private sector loans to help ease the country's economic crisis and the united nations' central emergency response fund has announced it will allocate ten million u.s. dollars for humanitarian assistance as millions of people in zimbabwe are on the brink of starvation the once prosperous southern african country is struggling with a currency crisis massive unemployment and drought. the situation in zimbabwe grows increasingly desperate each day the government has already been knocking on the neighbors' doors begging bowl in hand and even further afield but the country is regarded as too high risk as a borrower that's no consolation for ordinary citizens who are struggling to make ends meet.