i.m.f. assistance early last month after its peso currency weakened sharply in an investor exodus the chairman of the central bank and the finance minister announced the deal on thursday it was. stunned by we've agreed on standby access the amount of fifty billion dollars this is eleven times greater than argentina's quota which is reflective of the support of the international community for argentina it's very good news the integration of argentina to the world which allows us to have this level of support. but it means that. if i need to. the agreement will hold the argentine government to its promise to reduce its deficit to two point seven percent this year the government will also send a proposal to congress to reform the central bank charter and strengthen its autonomy duke of me said the country aims to be in surplus by twenty twenty. well as largest furniture company is stepping up measures to reduce its environmental impact sweden's ikea says its products will be made from sustainable and recital materials by the year twenty thirty and in the next two years it plans to remove all sing

i.m.f. assistance early last month after its peso currency weaken sharply in an investor exodus the chairmanof the central bank and the finance minister announced the deal on thursday it was. stand by we've agreed on standby access the amount of fifty billion dollars this is eleven times greater than argentina's quota which is reflective of the support of the international community for argentina it's very good news the integration of argentina to the world which allows us to have this level of support. but it means that. if. the agreement will hold the argentine government to its promise to reduce its deficit to two point seven percent this year the government will also send a proposal to congress to reform the central bank charter and strengthen its autonomy to cover me said the country aims to be in surplus by twenty twenty today as world oceans day and then this would have the united nations to help us better understand the big blanket that covers seventy percent of our planet but in recent years this blanket has come under threat mostly from plastic pollution some thirteen million tons

i.m.f. assistance early last month after its peso currency we can shop lee in an investor exodus the chairman of the central bank and the finance minister announced the deal on thursday it was. stand by we've agreed on standby access the amount of fifty billion dollars this is eleven times greater than argentina's quota which is reflective of the support of the international community for argentina it's very good news the integration of argentina to the world which allows us to have this level of support. but it means that. if i need to. the agreement will hold the argentine government to its promise to reduce its deficit to two point seven percent this year the government will also send a proposal to congress to reform the central bank charter and strengthen its autonomy duke of me said the country aims to be in surplus by twenty twenty. the world's largest furniture company is stepping up measures to reduce its environmental impact sweden's ikea says all its products will be made from sustainable and recycled must materials by the year twenty thirty in the next two years it plans to remove

i.m.f. signaled it would assist barbados ailing economy with an emergency debt restructuring plan does then suspend payments to external creditors to regroup barbadoes o's two thirds of its debt to local investors and bonds. through. some thought that debt restructuring measures are required without endangering its domestic financial system. government wants to protect barbados most vulnerable citizens as well as vital business sectors critical to the island nations growth or what's going on that i'm now joined by graeme minus a journalist from the region first of all we always think of your it's an expensive hotels and rich people when we talk about places in the caribbean like barbados we forget these countries are normal you. anime's with normal people in this group the company. used to be considered one of the fiscally tightly run countries in the caribbean how did that get so high well for starters you have to look at the history of these countries you know a lot of them were completely decimated economically in the one nine hundred ninety s. of trade wars of latin america exporting pr

i.m.f. signaling it would assist the ailing economy with an emergency debt restructuring plan abate us then suspended payments to external creditors to regroup the island owes two thirds of its day to local investors and banks some tough debt restructuring measures are required without endangering its domestic financial system now molly says her government wants to protect his most vulnerable citizens as well as business sector is critical to the nation's growth let's get some analysis on this from great miners he's a journalist from the region great when we hear bob vega as we think about yachts champagne of course rich people what about regular people oh i'll ask you about that in a moment but first the economy itself let's give people a picture of where this economy has come from one of the better fiscal fiscally run countries in the region to drowning in that well to be fair you know prime minister mali was voted in just last month and i think that the issues that we're seeing in barbados now point to gross inadequacy from the previous government or previous leaders. you know she's taki

i.m.f. signaling it would assist the ailing economy with an emergency debt restructuring plan but bales then suspended payments to external creditors to regroup the island owes two thirds of its state to local investors and banks some tough debt restructuring measures are required without endangering its domestic financial system although he says the government wants to protect bombadil says most vulnerable citizens as well as business sectors critical to the nation's growth officials used to consider barbados one of the better fiscally run countries of the caribbean grey mine is a journalist from the region i asked him how did it got so high well to be fair you know prime minister motley was voted in just last month and i think that the issues that we're seeing in barbadoes now point to gross inadequacy from the previous government or previous leaders. you know she's taking on a lot of burden of socially economically politically culturally even and you know like you said a lot of people do think that barbadoes is champagne it's beaches it's beach front property as you know but regular peopl

i.m.f. bailouts will have worked their magic after eight long years greece will finally be graduating from its financial assistance to greece giant. spain cyprus in my own country portugal in the ranks of euro area countries that turned around their economies and once again stand on their own feet one last instalment of fifteen billion euros and then it's over for solidarity from the euro area for greece in exchange for the reforms an adjustment is unprecedented it's the biggest solidarity the world has ever seen and who doesn't want to believe in this tale of athenian success after all has no shortage of other problems confronting the e.u. . like brics it for example airbus warns it might leave the united kingdom if britain leaves the single market and customs union without a transition deal it's the european aviation group's strongest warning hit over the impact of a no deal breaks it employs about fourteen thousand people at twenty five different sides in the u.k. british prime minister to recently has ruled out staying in the customs union the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march twenty n

i.m.f. bailouts will have worked their magic after eight long years greece will finally be graduating from its financial assistance to greece giant. spain cyprus in my own country portugal in the ranks of euro area countries that turned around their economies and once again stand on their own feet one last instalment of fifteen billion euros and then it's over for solidarity from the euro area for greece in exchange for the reforms and adjustment on president that it's the biggest solidarity the world has ever seen and who doesn't want to believe in this tale of athenian success after all there's no shortage of other problems confronting the e.u. . that's it from me of the saddam bone of the whole business team here in my colleague daniel wynter is already busy in the newsroom for frying preparing your optative that will be broadcast in roughly and i mean time to check out twitter and facebook feeds and also a web site on d w dot com slash business but before you go here's a real top check on the global markets they saw thank you very much for watching v.w. business i bought. an opposition stronghold on the refusa

i.m.f. bailout will have seemingly done their work. after eight long years degrees will finally be graduating from its financial assistance grease giant. spain cyprus in my own country portugal in the ranks of euro area countries that turned around their economies and once again stand on their own feet as greece prepares for the end of its third international bailout there are a few more sweeteners including another fifteen billion euros of credit but attain your deferral of interest on a line chunk of its debt. to solidarity from the euro area for greece in exchange for the reforms an adjustment is unprecedented it's the biggest solidarity the world has ever seen and who doesn't want to believe in this tale of athenian success with so many other problems facing the e.u. . they call it black gold the fray group vanilla pods in madagascar every year families produce around fifteen hundred tonnes of bourbon vanilla for export and demand is soaring but severe weather has taken its toll on the harvest driving up the price of the spice. vanilla pods cost less than one hundred dollars per kilogram four years ago but then prices shot up peaki

i.m.f. bailouts will have worked their magic after eight long years greece will finally be graduating from its financial assistance for greece giants. spain cyprus in my own country portugal in the ranks of euro area countries that turned around their economies and once again stand on their own feet one last instalment of fifteen billion euros and then it's over for solidarity from the euro area for greece in exchange for the reforms an adjustment is unprecedented it's a biggest solidarity the world has ever seen and who doesn't want to believe in this tale of athenian success after all there's no shortage of other problems confronting the e.u. . in retaliation for u.s. tariffs on steel elementary and the european union has slapped new duties on billions of dollars worth of imports coming into effect today that is on imports valued at close to three billion dollars include iconic u.s. goods such as the holly. perhaps it's fishing that in this new era of un free trade it is the harley davidson the symbol of personal freedom that's going to be hard hit the e.u. has introduced a twenty five percent employee q.e. on a