i'm chris colfer in berlin good to have you with us buyer wants to fight back the german chemicals company is taking steps to deal with the damaging series of legal challenges it faces in the u.s. over glyph we'll see glyphosate based pesticides set up a special committee to try to cope with the potentially massive legal bills it faces after its subsidiary monsanto was deemed responsible for causing cancer and users of its weed killer round up buyer already faces billions of damages it's heavily battered share price soared by more than 8 percent on thursday on the news . for more on this let's bring in the quarter who is standing by on wall street the buyers trying to contain the guy for say fall out here but there is talk about breaking up the company tell us more on that. yeah well there is one of the big shareholders by air management and founder paul singer and they're well known for being pretty active if not to call them aggressive and they have a success rate of about 78 percent was their compatriots and they actually and other shareholders as well and the biggest shareholders and b

i'm chris colfer in berlin good to have you with us and we start the show with a figure. 10 percent according to some u.s. officials that's what's left to complete a trade deal between the united states and china and the stage for ending the now year long dispute is set and u.s. president donald trump will meet china's leaders at the g. 20 summit in japan later this week. president trump set off for osaka with many hoping he would take the steps needed to resolve his trade disputes with china his treasury secretary says a deal with beijing was 90 percent done when talks collapsed in may now there's optimism among world leaders that the remaining 10 percent is within reach through not. in regard to the u.s. china trade expect the united states and china will constructively resolve the issue through dialogue including the u.s. china meeting during the g 20 summit. that were at a time of very high tensions between the united states and china so joining the g 20 summit i hope we can have talks that will ease the tensions up with a month that. many analysts say an out and out solution to the trade

i'm chris colfer welcome to the program all the future of u.s. china trade ties hangs in the balance at the g. 20 summit europe is blazing ahead on a different front. european union south american economic club marcos or have announced they've reached a deal on forming the world's largest free trade zone both sides are hailing the historic breakthrough after 2 decades of negotiations but the deal is not without its critics. in brazil large areas of amazon rain forest are being destroyed to make way for cattle farms much of the meat is exported to europe. now that the e.u. and south americas mercosur were blocked have struck a provisional trade deal it could result in higher quotas for b. thank sports to europe. german chancellor angela merkel had pushed strongly for the lucrative agreement she hopes it will give a further boost to german industry for example through car exports i like many e.u. leaders she's looking to multi-lateralism at a time when the u.s. is pulling back from free trade. the draft agreement ends nearly 20 years of negotiation

i'm chris colfer welcome to the program while the future of u.s. china trade ties hangs in the balance at the g. 20 summit europe is blazing ahead on a different front european union and the south american economic club america's sore have announced they've reached a deal on forming the world's.