g 20 meeting this weekend will for sure be how the coronavirus affects the global economy but mr couper also says that he would like to fully exchange information and opinion there and it was not yet time to discuss whether additional monetary easing was needed so i think we shouldn't expect bold announcements from the finance ministers and reserve bank chiefs of the g 20 countries there are not the board from the frankfurt started strange honor thank you. and now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making headlines car sales have gone in china. the spread of the coronavirus continues to rattle the global economy and industry report says retail sales of passenger cars tumbled 92 percent in the 1st 2 weeks of february compared to a year earlier a survey that shows japanese manufacturing has gone through its biggest monthly contraction in 7 years thanks to in part to the coronavirus economists say the fallout could even tip the world's 3rd largest economy into recession e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss the block's budgets for the next 7 years on the agend

that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies in their respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a long very violent labor history as. a society. but the labor movement had been very strong about the 1920 s. in a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to chris if legislation that would be an invention of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the packer pressures fission and be able to get through the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number 11 a i now which m

the tv astronomer heather couper has died at the age of 70 after a short illness. later this year will show some of his best—loved work — and at the vatican, they‘re preparing to hang his tapestries in the sistine chapel, beneath michelangelo‘s ceiling. our correspondent mark lowen gained exclusive access to the preparations. wears sacred power meets artistic mastery. night brings quiet but no rest. mechanical whirring. in the sistine chapel, where popes are chosen beneath michelangelo‘s glory, we got rare access to the cleaning of one of humanity‘s greatest triumphs. to do this job in this chapel, for me, is the best i can do in this life. the upkeep now is particularly special. 500 years since the world lost michelangelo‘s contemporary, raphael, preparations to host his tapestries in the chapel where they were designed to hang. amidst the magical story of this place was an intense renaissance rivalry between the older michelangelo and the younger, more sociable raphael. legend even has it that while michelangelo was absent during the painting of the ceiling, raph

they still can publish you know what we're hearing more and more criticism about that is that the couper of the caucus disaster in iowa some people saying we've got too much traffic in u.s. elections or what have you been hearing. well there's been plenty of astonishment plenty of anger that's what i'm seeing here in the united states that it's being said rachel just said that their the new app that was being used in iowa wasn't actually properly tested and in fact nevada is now saying they also have a caucus like i went there they're not going to use this up but of course you know the use of technology is not something new here in the united states it doesn't have a particularly high regard amongst many voters in the u.s. you can do you know dating back to for example back in 2002 in florida there was a bit of a debacle there over how they decided for the state's governor in that state we can also look at problems in california in georgia and you know the problem with this really brant is that it's sort of affects americans confidence or trust in the whole voting system so it can lead t