won't be quite as strong as previously hoped earlier we asked our financial correspondent in frankfurt conrad who is in for his take on the state of the chairman economy. 5 percent contraction of the german economy what do you turn after a decade of continuous economic growth all of the sectors of the economy were hit hard by the pandemic only one sector managed to increase and that's the building industries mortgages are easy to get to finance and also the german housing market needs more supply that's what kept and keeps the building sector robbing now in this situation of course hope by the government is needed but businesses report that a particular one program announced by the government in autumn has made many obstacles payments were delayed nobody knows really why. there were disagreements between the e.u. commission and the german government which resulted in the government to draw parts of its original promises. britain's leading supermarket group say urgent intervention is needed to prevent disruptions in northern ireland's food supply some shops are already facing shortages of fres

on there on social platforms and for more let's bring in our financial correspondent now in frankfurt conrad good morning good to see you come on the tech industry is middling with the u.s. politics right now it seems what are investors saying. good morning monica well you know classical investors are focused on the profits that their investments return and the impact of all this on the companies and on the profits is really difficult to evaluate if you're a company like twitter you have the legal risks there you have the risk of bad press you're are risking to lose parts of your clients and of course all this is on investors' minds but they tend not to want to talk to talk about it in the open too much of course for fear of getting in the focus of controversial discussions themselves of course i mean business and politics is usually very very separate but in this case i mean is this perhaps a case of tech giants now taking social responsibility something that politics has been asking them today. i think money because there's a risk of motivations here let's not forget what happened last wee