that's despite a last minute appeal on thursday by the commerce ministry in beijing for washington toeconsider. china is desperate to dig its economy out of a slump — it's facing a collapse in its real estate market and plunging consumer confidence. in the last few hours it has cut the cost of borrowing and pumped money into the banking system. and as the bbc�*s michelle fleury reports, fraud. plus, disco downturn. three nightclubs a week are closing down here in the, so why are promoters being forced to pull the plug? we start in the us where trade tensions with china are being ramped up this friday as import taxes or tariffs on a range of chinese made goods are going up sharply. by the commerce ministry in beijing for washington to reconsider. china is desperate to dig its economy out of a slump — it's facing a collapse in its real estate market and plunging consumer confidence. in the last few hours it has cut the cost of borrowing and pumped money into the banking system. and as the bbc�*s michelle fleury reports, it could face even more tense relations with the us depending on wh

the country's commerce ministry says the firms boycotted goods "without any factual basis".o fight against allegations from western officials and human rights activists that cotton has been produced using forced labour more of us are moving away from using cash, paying instead with cards or by using our phones. banking industry data in the uk shows the majority of people aged under 35 make contactless payments regularly with a smart phone or watch. so will we need to carry a wallet or purse around with us any more, or is that tradition on the way out? our correspondent kevin peachey has been to find out. deep in the leicestershire countryside, this barn isn't home to a trendy microbrewery but a business that's much more rare in the uk — a micro tannery. out of these giants reclaimed drums come the beginnings of quality leather that's come from deer and goat skins that otherwise would have gone to waste. these big drums here are a bit like a large washing machine, basically. and inside these, we tumble the hides, and by the end of the process, we've got leather that we can tu

that's despite a last minute appeal on thursday by the commerce ministry in beijing for washington to china is desperate to dig its economy out of a slump. in the last few hours it has cut the cost of borrowing and pumped money into the banking system. as the bbc�*s michelle fleury reports, it could face even more tense relations with the us depending on who wins the race for the white house. when the measures were first announced back in may, the white house said it was in response to china's unfair trade practices and to protect us jobs. at the time, the chinese said they opposed the hikes and would retaliate. analysts said the tariffs, which include a100% duty on electric vehicles made in china, well, that they're largely symbolic, especially since chinese evs aren't currently sold in the united states. as well as a rise on ev tariffs, levies on solar cells will increase to 50%, while rates on steel and aluminium products will more than triple to 25%. tariff hikes on other products, including semiconductor chips, are set to take into effect over the next two years. the increases, w

that's despite a last minute appeal on thursday by the commerce ministry in beijing for washington tong a collapse in its real estate market and plunging consumer confidence. in the last few hours it has cut the cost of borrowing and pumped money into the banking system. and as the bbc�*s michelle fleury reports,

kaladozan, who is the director of e-commerce development of the ministry , we have very good interactions with the chamber of guilds of iran and the union of cyberspace business guilds. now in terms of growth, we want to say that in the last 2 years , that is, from 1341 to 4001 onwards, that is, 402 and 403, these are 56 months, the growth process of our business license issuance according to the law on facilitating the issuance of licensing. we had a trade union in the issuance of growth license. it is very good to have a very good identification, and compared to the previous years, we had perhaps a 40% growth in the issuance of business licenses in the last two years compared to the previous industries . 75% of these activists, dear mr. azari bagai, 75% of them are explanations. 25 percentage of this our activists are also providing services to these people. who have obtained a license and are operating in their field of virtual space business . they are concentrated in our tehran province. 49-51 of them are in other provinces. complaints are currently handled by the same union and insp

when i got into the commerce and ministry industry in june of 2019, we were at the far end of negotiationst was the day we accept joining the asean. i got only three or four months to really get a hang on what was happening, but clearly, i could see it was not in the nation's interests or not in our interests. it did not reflect the sectors. in some form was nothing but a free trade agreement with china because at that point in time, we already had an fta with the asean of ten countries. we already had an fta with japan and korea. it was in the final deal and we put that on the back burner. and new zealand, we don't have much business interests. at that time, the trade was $300 million. million dollars. effectively, the only country left was china and certainly nobody back home would like to have an fta with non-transparent economy and opaque and economic practices where both trading systems, political systems, the economy, the way it is managed is completely different from the democratic world. >> you don't think if you pushed for a hard bargain that you could get your terms and condition

commerce include banning the export of computers and quantum calculators, semiconductor products, some metal alloys, high-bandwidth chips, and sensitive components of artificial intelligence software . ministry of commerce. the united states stated that the purpose of this action is national security and foreign policy . in this regard , it has been negotiated with the international partners of the united states. china and the united states have a close competition in the field of semiconductor products. about 10 years have passed since the approval of the law restricting the sale of chips to china. china has tried to manufacture chips advanced native to. answer the us sanctions. however, china is still the largest chip importer. this cat and mouse game started by america will continue in the future. following the flood in the historical library in the state of new york , the officials of this library say: it may take years to restore and repair the book and its historical documents. according to the guardian newspaper, due to arrival. two weeks ago , thousands of books were destroyed inside the smithtown library, and the manuscripts and historical documents in this center were also damaged.

deliveries were carried out in strict accordance with the security protocol of the japanese ministry of commerceles took place through official distributors. the supply of gadgets filled with explosives to hezbollah is not a one-off action; israeli intelligence services have been preparing for several years, creating chains of front companies that supplied dangerous devices to lebanon. we are dealing with an enemy that disregards all international norms, showing no mercy to anyone. can this continue, where is the opinion of the world public, can this be accepted by the international community, where? their assessment of the explosion in lebanon. denis davidov, andrey ivanov, sergey mengazhev, alexey pichko and evgeny samsonov, news! mechanical, but hit yourself on the head, you have a nickname, where you need to go, that's what they call me, because i'm taking you not where you fool want, where you need to go, i can't live without traveling, flint, he who has a flint in his pocket doesn't need a pen, soon! welcome to asia, the heart of the continent beats here. if everything looks like the wild

according to the chinese ministry of commerce, the same rules will apply to foreign companies as to localnes. but the restrictions are only lifted for the manufacturing sector. in other sectors of the economy, control over foreign investment will remain the same. among them are such industries as livestock farming, agriculture and the mining industry. in conclusion, i will remind you that the official rates currencies for today dollar 89 rubles 82 kopecks. that's all i have for now. open a deposit in gazprombank with an increased rate of up to 25% together with the long-term savings program from gazfond pension savings. the state will add up to 360,000 rubles. under the long-term savings program. your funds are insured up to 2.8 100,000 rubles. open at the nearest gazprombank office. burger. on fire taste. i wanted to open a deposit at 19%. it turns out you can at 21. i thought about opening a deposit in one bank, it turns out you can at once in different ones, for your money marketplace, it turns out, open a deposit with a rate of 21%. finuslugi, a financial marketplace from the moscow e

kaladozan, who is the director of e-commerce development of the ministry, they have very good interactions with the iran chamber of guilds and our virtual space business union. in terms of growth, we want to say that in the last 2 years, that is, from 1341 to 401 onwards, that is, 4002 and 403, these 56 months, our growth trend issuing our business license according to the law on facilitating the issuance of licenses, and i would like to invite you to our presence because of the good interactions we had with the ministry of industry, civilization and trade . doing a very good identification and compared to the previous years, we had maybe a 40% increase in the issuance of business licenses in the last two years compared to the previous years. 75% of these activists , dear mr. azaribaghai, 75% of them are explanations, 25% of these activists. we are also providing services from these people who got a license and have virtual space in their field of business they are active in our tehran province, 49 and 51 of them are in other provinces. i wanted to give a little insight into which area and

ministry of commerce, two for foreign companies the same rules will apply as for local ones, but theons are removed only from the manufacturing sector. in other areas of the economy, control over foreign investment will remain the same, including such industries as livestock farming, agriculture and the extractive industry. in conclusion of the issue, i will remind you that the official exchange rates for today are the dollar 89 rubles 82 kopecks. the euro 99.71 and the chinese. 12 rubles 53 kopecks. that's all i have for now. the united states is preparing for one of the main political shows of the year. the first round of debates between trump and harris. the latter will have to answer for all of biden's failed policies. and these debates should affect the ratings of the main candidates for the post of the president of the usa. and maria skorodelka will tell about the election race, about the upcoming debates. the usa is frozen in anticipation, local tv channels are counting down the time , there are only a couple of days left until these debates between trump and harris, who will

according to the chinese ministry of commerce, for foreign companies will be subject to the same rules as local ones. restrictions are lifted only for the manufacturing sector, in other areas of the economy, control over foreign investment will remain the same, including such industries as livestock farming, agriculture and mining... in conclusion of the issue, i will remind you of the official exchange rates for today: dollar 89 rubles 82 kopecks, euro 99.71 and yuan 12 rubles 53 kopecks. that's all i have for now. so says the lighthouse. and now to the situation in the middle east. as a result of israeli strikes on areas of syria, five people were killed, another 19 were injured. this was reported by the sana agency. medical personnel, the skora brigades are providing first aid to the wounded. the military came under fire. facility and columns with equipment, as well as a research center in masyaf, where chemical weapons were allegedly produced. also, after the raids , a fire broke out in some provinces, a total of 15 airstrikes were carried out. the central regions of the country, i

according to the opinion of the financial officer of the ministry of civil industry and commerce. and the follow-ups that have been done are allowed to provide their own raw materials. currently, these products are exported to different countries . to the countries of the region, as well as the countries of western europe, canada, and even the united states, and our enclaves in areas especially within the region, i.e. iraq in pakistan, the cs areas, which are now in several countries, are conducted in germany, canada, and libya. and we are exporting to african countries , and we are supporting neighboring countries, in addition to persian gulf countries , cis countries, our products have gone to the countries of the persian gulf, afghanistan, pakistan, eurasian countries such as russia, azerbaijan , armenia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan. and the country of iraq is iraq. afghanistan and tajikistan are exported to all neighboring countries . let me say england currently, there are most asian countries , such as uzbekistan, turkmenistan, the emirates of iraq, and god willing, plans have be

eve of the new academic year , we have signed a memorandum of understanding with the ministry of industry, commerce and industry , that 50 million student notebooks will be made this year, god willing. produce it, our price is much lower than the approved price, which means you lower it. yes , look, we give you a notebook of 40 pages, 8 thousand tomans. about 70% of student offices in all countries produce our printing group, which prints paper. then it is eaten with the gravitons we have and it is sized how many notebooks do you produce per day? about 40,000 notebooks are produced in 24 hours. paying attention to culture and identity is one of the priorities of producing student notebooks here. we convert 40 to 50 tons of paper into notebooks and we tried to now our work is generally a cultural work, but we tried to have national and religious personalities on the covers of our offices. in order for the children to become more familiar with these characters , in addition to meeting the internal needs, this company has also taken steps to export. we have an export office to iraq and afghanistan. we

trades, the cooperative chamber, the iranian mining and agriculture industry chamber of commerce. are other than the ministryeconomic affairs and finance and the institution itself licensing 3 supervisory bodies are also members , the attorney general's office, the national audit office and the inspection organization. well, as a representative of the inspection organization, we participated in these meetings, both in the deregulation board and in the specialized committee of mr. dr. siyab. can you explain better? what an erosive session it was, well, with the institutions , the institutions have some resistance , we can overcome the resistance of the institutions, that is why we insist on leaving the law, and fortunately, the honorable islamic council's insistence on the entry of this institution and these authorities into the law. we can see the devices well they claim that they are basically not subject to this law. in the second phase, they claim that the approval they give , the certificate they give, is not considered a license, and in the third phase, they do not consider it a business license, and we

a sensitive part has been secured, some initial measures have been taken by the ministry of industry, trade, and commerce. we have a currency challenge in the field of machinery. mainly in in the area of ​​the central bank, we believe that we should speak very frankly. now, the country's currency is in many areas. you can see that in gasoline, i don't know, products like bananas, i don't know, cars are allocated in the area of ​​machinery, which creates jobs, in proportion. i don't want to point out the development that now friends are accompanied by the central bank, but we expect that this companion will be modern, that is , in the same proportion of writing. it is expected that in all industries we can be as fast as iqbal people we are going to update our machines internally , in nestaji, in esh, home appliances, in the fields of cellulose, in all fields, now stationery is the flagship of this trend, because it is somewhat related to the educated class of students, this is the flagship in the field of national production. it is the same currency in other areas. well, it is true that it is mentioned th

khorrami, ministry of industry, trade, and commerce, responsible for monitoring the principles of safety protection of mines. according to this case, why did this happen? yes, i'm glad you're here. i'll explain to the family of the structures of this remangi accident about the technical causes of this accident . and until they make the results of their detailed and expert investigations , we cannot comment on the causes of this incident , so we are waiting for the first results of the investigations to be announced in the next few days, and then in this very well, now until the results are clear, we will contact you again in the next few days, mr. khorrami, according to the order of the minister, the mining activity has been stopped. it has been said that the mine operator has also been arrested. is the mine operator correct or not? has been formed and the same technical committee has been formed to ensure that the operation of this mine continues again. an observational incident will not happen, and in fact, the security assurance and that committee should be issued and then the mining

deliveries were carried out in strict accordance with the security protocol of the japanese ministry of commercetook place through official distributors. the supply of gadgets stuffed with explosives to hezbollah is not an isolated action. israeli intelligence services had been preparing for several years, creating chains of front companies that supplied dangerous devices in lebanon. we are dealing with an enemy that disregards all international norms, showing no mercy to anyone, can this continue, where is the opinion of world public opinion, can this be accepted by the international. community, where the united nations, the un was created with a fundamental duty to promote peace, but where is the world in the face of these victims and this boundless criminality. this is the question that must be asked. today every day pager attack so called this unprecedented in scale series of terrorist attacks. it is noteworthy that during the two days in which the attacks took place, the defense ministers of israel and the united states spoke on the phone at least three times. washington denies any involvem

the sensory sector has been secured, the initial measures have been taken by the ministry of industry, trade and commerce. we have a horizontal challenge in the field of machinery, which is mainly in the field of the central bank. we believe that we should want to speak very frankly. you see, i don't know about gasoline products like banana in i don't know, the car is allocated in the field of machinery, which creates employment. i don't want to say according to the growth rate that you mentioned , now friends have the support of the central bank, but we expect that this support will be in line with the writing, you are talking about writing. now the stationery is a symbol of our domestic production, but the trend of supporting domestic production in the country expects us to be able to do it in all our industries. as fast as people are willing , let's update our machines internally, in nestaji , at home, in cellulose fields, in all fields. it is somewhat related to the educated class of students. this is a flagship in the field of national production . in other fields, it is true that it is mentioned th

were captured on the krurs border are returning to their homeland, as reported by the ministry of trade and commerce. arab emirates, now all our servicemen are already safe and while they are on the territory of belarus, they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance, everyone has the opportunity to contact their relatives, in the near future the fighters will be delivered to russia for treatment and rehabilitation. in the kursk border in iisu , they lost more than 200 in just one day. and two dozen combat vehicles. that's it, they destroyed another hidden position of the ukrainian armed forces, an armored vehicle, was measured in a forest belt, not knowing that our drone was already watching it. nato's maxpro turned into a pile of charred metal after meeting with the copter. the armored vehicle and truck destroyed the day before are visible nearby . at the same time, the mi-28 eliminated the enemy's manpower and equipment. they hit. with unguided missiles. the accuracy of the hits was confirmed by objective control. the fighters of the southern group of troops liberated anoth

this board, which is a combination of three chambers, the chamber of commerce, chamber of mining industries and apart from the ministry of economic affairs and finance and the licensing authority, 3 supervisory bodies are also members of iran's agriculture , the country's general prosecutor's office and the country's audit organization. well, we participated in these meetings as representatives of the country's inspection organization appointed board dr. sayab's expert committee can better explain what kind of erosive meetings were, well, with the devices, as a rule, the devices have some resistances , we can see the resistance of the devices, that's why we actually insist on leaving the law and fortunately insist the honorable majlis of the islamic council on the entry of this we can clearly see the device and these references to the law. they claim that the approval they give is not considered a license, and in the third stage, i don't consider it a business license, and in these meetings, we go step by step with the executive bodies as a supervisory body, so to speak, force the bodies. in the last 3 years, we have

commerce and mining this law is private. representatives of the private sector should be present. the private sector also helps the ministry. in drafting strategic documents, the department announced its readiness to have experts in the same fields at their service in order to produce policy and finally strategic documents so that we can really solve the problems we face in the business environment, especially industry and trade, god willing . the minister of mining industry and trade emphasized that the plans and policies of this ministry are formulated based on the provisions of the 7th plan. bahrami, the news agency of sed and sima, neighborhood conference of progress to reduce damages the community of the country's neighborhoods was held in mashhad with the presence of more than 400 mosque activists. strengthening neighborhood imams and mosque activists to solve neighborhood issues was one of the axes of this national conference. you help a community in a neighborhood at a point of movement. the solution to many problems of neighborhoods in different cities of the country is enlightenment and explanation. this was one

cooperation between the ministry of labor and the ministry of labor of iraq is the document between the two countries and the document of the chambers of commerce, which was one of the most important economic documents between the two countries. also today , god willing, a meeting will be arranged in about half an hour. given that, god willing, companies with economic activity in iraq can meet with you in this meeting, the honorable president will surely bring the problems and issues that iranian companies are involved with in iraq to the attention of the honorable president , along with solutions through economic experts. and also. friends who are related to the iraqi market, god willing, one of the discussions that we are looking for in this meeting is the issue of technical and engineering service companies and the entry of technical and engineering service companies into the iraqi market, which we will ask the president, god willing. negotiations with senior iraqi officials they can solve the problems and obstacles that are present in entering the market of iranian investors who, with joint investment in iraq, are looking to be able to sell

research fund of the ministry of science and technology, we will definitely spend this money in order to modernize the name and motorcycles. the head of the iranian chamber of commerce says that more than 20 national organizations. according to mr. hassanzadeh, the iranian chamber of commerce is the link between the private sector and the government. in the fourth conference of economic organizations of development leaders, 31 top organizations were honored. the national day of organizations is an excuse for industry and trade activists to think about the topic of organization and impact. the existence of the organization and if we can strengthen them any amount, they should have a good plan it can be very effective for the development of our country's economy, it should be in macro policies , even in relation to investments, it should be the obligation of organizations to use the iran chamber, it has a capacity , so to speak, in organizational work. the deputy speaker of the parliament emphasizes the support of the moghnena power to strengthen the organizations, and the minister of jihad agriculture also speaks of the government's support for them. we intend to lea

the ministry of labor is with the ministry of labor of iraq, there is a document on free zones between the two countries, and a document on chambers of commerceich is one of the most important economic documents between the two countries. also today , god willing, a meeting will be arranged in about half an hour, god willing, companies with economic activity in iraq can have a meeting with the president. dear president, in this meeting , the problems and issues that iranian companies are involved with in iraq should be discussed. they will reach the opinion of the honorable president, and along with that, solutions will also be brought up by economic experts and friends who are related to the iraqi market, god willing. one of the discussions we are looking for in this meeting is the issue of technical service companies. and engineering and the entry of technical and engineering service companies into the iraqi market. god willing, we will ask the president to hold talks with senior iraqi officials so that the problems and obstacles in entering the iraqi market can be raised. god willing, we can make the most of this opportunity. have but iraq

field of commerce, commercial uh import in france, and so far over 35,00 people have signed an online petition to urge the french government to halt arm sales to israel. according to defense ministry figures, france sells an average of $22 million dollars worth of military equipment to israel annually. after 10 months, the death toll and injuries in gaza keep mounting day by. day with most international governments seemingly unwilling or unable to intervene, so how effective are petitions and protests or indeed events such as this one? that's very sad because it really does not have much impact in paris compared to many many other cities in europe and and everywhere, and and i feel very sad about that, why? i don't know, i don't understand, because... "france is a big country and and they like nurture that with the freedom of speech and dave ner with human rights and this and that and everything and further demonstrations of support for palestine are planned in the days and weeks ahead. organizers of saturday's riley say their principal aim is to educate and inform the public here as to what is going on in the west bank and in gaza. and to add to the voices of the people, not just

the russian ukrainian commerce makes the well, it's so the news out my send the full is, is take the settlement of makia, of the gods republic. both according to the finance ministry, the units of the west group of forces liberated the settlement of a cave in the loo, gone to people's republic during successful offensive operations. the units of the south group of troops took more advantageous positions and defeated the formations in the areas of the settlements of constantine, of gold and silver skin. the dentist, the peoples republic, the russian defense ministry, has outlined the of boxes made by russian forces across a views of the front line and protected the northern group while it's made advances in the city of full terms kind of size. and let's see. these are areas of pool for the defense, going to see headset, they wanted to create a buffers on to provide relief, particularly for the citizens of the overall data. some of these, this region that befalls and a drawing of products against civilian areas that have taken place. now, in the southern area, we've heard the boxes in a comb sends you know, got on service. now ukraine has some of the heavy policies,

exactly where the chambers of commerce and industry and business councils that we have should work, this is the case when the minister is also a moderator, sergey tevelev. the ministry session new energy of the far east at the forum. we are ahead of the rest of the world in the construction of small nuclear power plants in the city of pevek in chukotka. the floating power unit of the kolomosov academy provides the entire city with heat and electricity. five more small-capacity nuclear power plants will be built in the far east. we need to do a lot of work to prepare first for the construction stage, then for the operation stage. wherever we go, nuclear cities or nuclear towns are created, always, excuse me immodestly. in these cities or towns the standard of living is higher than in the surrounding area, this is especially true, of course, for the cities near the station, there the salaries are always higher, the level of social projects, a question that cannot be ignored, the situation with the nuclear power plant in the kursk region, the station was built in soviet times, the security structure did not include drone attacks, vile and thought-out terrorism on the p

ministry, but the probe has shocked the broader business community, which fears the chinese government is attempts to force companies to flout u.s. law, or face penalties in china. the eu chamber of commerce commented that the move puts international companies between a rock and a hard place. melissa? >> eunice, thank you. this seems like just a little appetizer of what could be to come, this en entire thing. it's problematic and only going to get worse. >> there were other -- remember back in 2021, there were a number of other retailers who said we would not buy cotton, source cotton from this area, including nike, h&h, zara's parent company, and all of a sudden, this issue comes up now with pvh. it's sort of -- it's interesting timing for them to sort of revive this issue -- make it an issue. >> i don't know why, actually, why were these guys, you know in the cross hairs, i'm not really sure. asia's an important part of their business. europe is much bigger, but still, i don't know, 20 %-ish of their revenues. that would be somewhat of a hit. i don't know -- they both import and export to china. and so i don't know if -- it seems to me they are kind of shooting themselves in the foot by

commerce filed a brief period chamber of commerce filed a brief and 23 cases so a pretty good number of cases. there were 14 and nine is 23 cases per most of 14 were ministry of law cases. when it came to straight business cases eight batted no more than 500 past terms batting 800 poster 900. probably the most important thing for some businesses and civil litigation was a bankruptcy case. we think about large get situation i taught a wave of litigation. the company really wants of its willing to pay quite a bit of money to settle the case to settle the piece. that means a litigation distance nothing to spend a billion dollars resolution for substantial sums of money is not a definitive resolution. it is designed to have those definitive resolutions and the plaintiffs lawyers are pretty good at getting around the field mechanisms that do provide those. a number of situations definitive resolution is for a company or to go into bankruptcy. what often happens in the situation is affiliate that goes into bankruptcy. the parent company were willing to pitch in a lot of money to settle this thing. we cannot go after us anymore on this. when the asbestos contacts