bruton's witnesses starts december 13th on g.w. . from russia with mixed feelings why some german companies are increasingly wary about doing business there are those others yesterday also on the show the north stream to pipeline from russia to germany to me as completion will this make the whole of europe too dependent on put his gas supplies and his goodwill. and the cuban turns in crisis now the communist authorities once a bounded transit system and ordinary cubans are not happy about. this is d w business i'm gallup has a berlin welcome. germany germany's investment in russia hit its highest level in a decade last year however a new survey of german companies suggests something of a lottery when it comes to operating in the country a 3rd of the funds say the business climate in russia has worsened over the past year but around the same proportion say things have improved he complains i says if iraq or syria and the weak economy russia's economic growth of 1.7 percent in the 3rd quarter of this year is below what's needed to meet

distribute these are just translation difficulties i scared everyone my sign today but actually it says bruton by which means grandfather. so what are the chances of getting picked 29 things press or sets a record a total of 1895 journalists taken part over the last 7 years vladimir putin had the time to answer an average of $58.00 questions per q. and a so i've done the math the chances are about 3 percent only 3 percent that you get to ask a question not the best of all odds but. the longest event lasted for 4 hours and 40 minutes and usually it's never less than 3 in the several hours of constantly jumping on your chair waving your black card trying to stand out from the crowd and get the president's attention i'll tell you what that's quite an experience anyway do stay tuned for the show because it could really shake things up a little bit before the holidays from pushing the stock markets up or down to causing a real geopolitical stir just one example it is right in that building that florida are proving once back in 25th thing called donald trump a bright talented man you know the rest o

and if you are overseas looking at bruton are trying to make investment decisions, it clearly delaysr the trade deal is going to be forward with our european partners in place as fast as possible so we all understand that. he also do a lot of business with america, so is it important to get a trade deal over there as well? the difficulty we have at the moment is the tariff position. we have already got 25% extra ta riff position. we have already got 25% extra tariff being levied as far as we are concerned. the uncertainty in february of maybe having more to come depending on what the president over there decides, so a trade deal which impacts on the tariff position would clearly be helpful, but as we sit here it doesn't seem awfully likely anytime soon. that sounds likely anytime soon. that sounds like quite a steep, quite a burden something for you to have to deal with, 25% and then more possibly. potentially more. that going to affect the way you trade with your partner is here and abroad? we are still hoping as it grows here and particularly in america, we hope sanity will prevail