thoughts despite these defects kristoff says roughly a million v.w. brazilians were manufactured and sold in brazil over ten years they also spread to mexico and nigeria where the car was kristen ve got and even if the brazilian was always something of a ruling anachronisms buyers could even get it with a one point three ethanol motor towards the end of its production life come on that i could tell with. ethanol is a commonplace alternative to gasoline in brazil today most brazilian vehicles have so-called total flex engines that can handle any mixture of the two fuels regardless from ratio. in europe the v.w. brazilian has remained a rarity only a few of them can be found in portugal or on the canary islands. if i'll be able as in many ways christo thinks the v.w. brasilia can be considered the final stage of evolution of the beetle concept from the one nine hundred thirty s. in that sense he says it's a milestone a car history. but its predecessor outlived it while the v.w. of brasilia was discontinued in one nine hundred eighty two the beetle conti

listen to one man though is determined to do what he can to put that right seventy one year old kristoff bush a scriptwriter by trade has rented a former kiosk in an underground station in germany's northern port city of hamburg and set himself up as somebody who will lend his ear it's a pretty much anybody. we're at the inn million stross a subway station in hamburg. and. the platform has what looks like a regular kiosk but this one doesn't sell the usual newspapers and chocolates the man who stops it offers an entirely different service. for the morning was so what can i buy here you can buy anything you can do is be heard if you want to tell me a story i'm all ears even if it's just a few sentences about this. the promise to listen arouses curiosity people are drawn to the unusual kiosk at the station. they really might be happy if you can buy actually there's a number you can call to one of them to say you're writing a book like this written it might turn into a book but first of all i just listen to the things people tell me i bet you called stories to tell. the seventy one year old

kristoff is here now on wall street suffered its worst month in two years the mood wasn't much better elsewhere not brined equity markets in asia started the month of losses on thursday as a global selloff continued blue chips on japan's nikkei index shed just over one and a half percent with a stronger yen hitting big exporters losses in asia followed more losses on wall street with the dollar also down by one and a half percent fears in the u.s. are mounting about higher inflation and interest rates. so let's get the view from frankfurt with our markets man cold daniel wall street saw the worst month in two years asian markets also under pressure european markets kicking of the month of march. good morning chris of february you just mentioned was certainly not a successful months here on the trading floor as well as shares of the blue chip index dax fell almost four and a half percent and you just mentioned of the outlook for today because of falling shares on wall street and the major indices in asia is also not very promising that happened even after a very good news from the much

that story and more with kristoff coper in business coming right up. on freedom and the whole. world i come from the region is rich in history and talent much will poor in education opportunity and freedom this makes it especially difficult for independent drugs i see many of the younger and promising germans who are now me few names for themselves all over there are. some might get along the way some might for though some women continue.

charger is robust and with proper care is designed to last for several hundred thousand kilometers kristoff blamed is bad reputation on too many people trying to many crazy tuning experiments it was easy to souped up the revs but when a super charger shaft design for a maximum of ten thousand grabs suddenly jumps to fifteen thousand and it's hardly surprising if it blows up at some point but the only one that is going to. get any good. that i go for rally made for a real racing car feeling you can only build five thousand of them this technological pioneer is the top of the line golf to get it's a collector's item and the most widely sought after goal for them all and that in itself makes it a milestone of automotive history has had its day because it's definitely had my inside i'll be seeing. much of the govt rallies innovative technology was adapted to use mass produced models the most powerful version of the later go free model d.v.r. six two point nine went into production in one thousand nine hundred four it came solely with all wheel drive. next time on drive it and s.u.v. with a spec

spanish city or region by cordoba my baby and how they hang on it isn't about how good our fourth kristoff ass it got well it still sounds good which probably wouldn't be the case in germany fish trying to thwart time kustra broke so not quite so sixty. after it split from fi out in one thousand nine hundred one see i'd signed a production agreement with volkswagen in one nine hundred eighty six see that was incorporated into the v.w. group and after ten years of scrabbling in the dirt the spanish car makers were back in the black. christophe explains that during the beaches development sea had received massive support from across europe the design came from italy the bodywork concept from german manufacture carman and also and the engine from portion. and stood guard porsche also find the chassis making it a real gem of its class with actual en route holding and performance that it could be really proud of christophe's one point to the leader of the model was seventy one horsepower as a top speed of one hundred fifty eight kilometers an hour of the it's a. c. had to be so was the most adv

hang on it isn't about how i'm going to afford kristoffer ass well it still sounds good which probably wouldn't be the case in germany they're trying to thwart time kustra brock's or not quite so sexy. after it's split from fiona in one thousand nine hundred one seeing at sign a production agreement with both wagon in one nine hundred eighty six c out was incorporated into the v.w. group and after ten years of scrabbling in the dirt the spanish car makers were back in the black. somebody christof explains that during the beaches develop. see you have received massive support from across europe the design came from italy the bodywork concept from german manufacturer carmen austin a boy and the engine from porsche and stood guard porsche also find the chassis making it a real gem of its class with actual en route holding and performance that it could be really proud of christus one point two liter of model with seventy one horsepower as a top speed of one hundred fifty eight kilometers an hour of this god it's a. visio to be so it was the most advanced compact car of its time. to see any

countdown is all with donald trump's planned import tariffs looming kristoff terror and this one seemsto be going down to the wire the ease trade commissioner cecilia monstro held negotiations with the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross yesterday and talks will continue on wednesday well with monsoon pressing for the e.u. as a whole to be excluded from president trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum that are set to go into effect on friday now the brewing trade crisis also top the agenda of g twenty finance ministers meeting and one desires. u.s. treasury secretary steven minow and defended the new american steel and aluminum tariffs which are set to go into effect on friday that we need to be prepared to act in the u.s. interest again to defend free and fair person perkel try to allenwood it and in doing that there is always a risk if we put terror solid other people overseas market and there is a risk of the trade worse the president has said we're not afraid of getting into a trade war given the size of our market the size of our economy and the fact that we have a big trade de

on a terrorist attack that shocked germany right before christmas and twenty sixteen rather today kristoff german lawmakers are starting to look into exactly why authorities failed to prevent the deadly twenty sixteen christmas market attack here in berlin a total of twelve people were killed in that attack when a failed asylum seeker drove a truck into a crowded holiday market in the city's center a towering play shot and killed the tunisian perpetrator four days later in a shoot out in the long after he alluded german police a special parliamentary committee will be investigating a series of police and security failures that allowed a suspect to stage a terrorist attack and escape the sea on december nineteenth twenty sixteen terrorist and nice amery steered a hijacked truck into a busy christmas market on berlin's bright child plants twelve people died and many are still suffering today from serious injuries. it was the first serious to haddest attack in germany but could it have been prevented a committee of inquiry is set to investigate this question in retrospect it is clear that sec

more now on the reasons behind washington decision to slap tariffs on china with kristoff sony after an election campaign where he pledged to address china's three hundred fifty billion dollar trade surplus with the united states donald trump ordered an investigation of chinese business last year now u.s. companies were surveyed and they have four main gripes with china first they claim chinese firms require them to form partnerships in china and then steal technology and close down the joint venture they say chinese companies buying into u.s. companies are subsidized by beijing with the aim of having access to leading edge technology and other frequent complaints chinese hacking of u.s. commercial networks to spy on key companies and finally american companies with operations in china don't have the same rights as chinese companies do well so much for the reasoning behind the fresh tears against china as a now we've got to the world's biggest two economies going head to head for some more a now hearing in trade war has arrived now well the trade war between the e.u. and united state

this woman made an appointment by phone she wants to talk about her marriage to a man from senegal kristoffby. consider whether this could make an interesting story i might. not make my money at that point i migrated to senegal with my husband but we weren't really agreed on it. i said let's do this i have so many ideas this is a poor country and they need good ideas here but it didn't work only nine months i fit in. because we came back that it was a great experience it's all i'm always on the lookout for people i would normally get to meet who wouldn't come to my house for a party for example in the party or people go instill a sense of respect in me. i'm a bit taken aback by what they say. that's exciting about this quote. he's wary of being treated as a stand in therapist or pastor nevertheless he hears more sad stories than happy ones. i tell myself sorrow is the flipside of happiness and if you are never unhappy then you don't know what happiness is most people who come here want to escape their sorrow but this is like a first step in that direction just. some of these stories affect

ok we're staying in italy and the economy kristoff is also a key issue in this election and an important issue in fact brian do people have work can they afford a living and can they get ahead in life all of this is linked to the economy italy's economy one of the tens ten largest in the world but still suffering from many structural problems in this economy was it particularly hard by the recent global recession but it has seen a steady recovery in recent years it grew by one and a half percent last year now one of the biggest concerns is the national debt firmly entrenched at a hundred and thirty percent of annual g.d.p. only struggling greece owes more so it is quite a mixed bag of economic indicators before sunday's election what do italians make of it take a look on this but though i expect a change of pace on many important aspects security equality and citizens' welfare . even a sort of egypt that you know. yes but i don't expect much i hope whoever wins will do more. peaceful because i think something could change but it depends on which coalition wins i'm not sure if they'll be

in the world with have to import terrorists but now he seems to be showing a bit more flexibility kristoff indeed fill the white house says president trump is negotiating with a number of countries over possible exemptions to new u.s. import tariffs but they didn't clarify which countries are involved and there's no time to waste a week from now these increased terrorists on steel and aluminum are set to come into effect meanwhile e.u. officials have prepared list of u.s. produced items that could face levees in return the u.s. economic hit list is pages long and includes american favorites like corn peanut butter whiskey tobacco jeans and motorcycles products worth in total two point eight billion euros in annual trade says brussels the list as a reaction to u.s. president donald trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum that the european union says flies in the face of the u.s. relations. with the tariffs that the united states has imposed are against these principles of the world trade organization and they want to change or solve these problems by discussion as possible. which is w

president trump announcing new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports kristoff on the move comes despite the president's top economic advisers having fiercely lobbied against it but donald trump says the plans will be made official next week now the plan is to levy a twenty five percent charge on steel and a ten percent charge on aluminum the measure has sent the dow jones and other stock markets plummeting and drew an immediate response from the european union it said it will react with terrorists of its own. steel made in china. athol an internal trump side for months he's threatened to increase tariffs against chinese imports against european ones too but now the time for talk is over at the end of a meeting with steel and aluminum producers he announced the planned levies. we have with us the biggest steel companies in the united states that used to be like bigger. but they got to be a lot bigger again. we have big companies in the united states and they've been very unfairly treated by bad policy by bad trade deals by other countries they've been horribly treated by the countries tr

eight victims at a police station and a lengthy rights groups are blaming the president nicholas kristoff for failing to deal with prison overcrowding and rising violence there's been no government response so far. he has more from bogota in neighboring colombia. otoh it is in venice where or facing national and international outrage for their slow response to one of the worst disasters to happen in the country's detention facilities more than twenty four hours after the incident that left sixty eight people dead there still hasn't been an official statement by the government of president nicolas maduro the only official statement came via twitter from the office of the attorney general he did confirm the dead talk and said he was appointing for prosecutors to investigate exactly what happened inside the prison and for a second day relatives of the victims spent a day in front of the police station trying to find out what happened to their loved ones if they were still alive or how to recover the body temporary morgue was set up inside the police station to try and speed up that process u

the death of a popular local politician sara we're talking here about an execution style murder kristoff the murder of a city councilor in rio de janeiro in fact it has sparked huge protests mirelle franco was known as an outspoken critic of police brutality the un and amnesty international have demanded a thorough investigation into her death. a community in mourning mariel franco was of beacon of hope for the poor in marginalized of rio. black female and lesbian she was a rarity in brazil's political scene franco rose from the slums to become a leading voice against police violence which disproportionately affects the black population a powerful voice now silenced the day after her killing a thousand sick to the streets to protest her violent death and demand answers. they killed my friend. they killed our colleague. but if they think that it will make us rich treats they are wrong. i'm so busy downtown shit imo so it feels like they're trying to remove our voices the voices of all the black women in this country. franco was gunned down in her car late on wednesday evening she was shot

provide a necessarily a way out of it that story in a short while for now back to you phil thanks kristoff slovakia's embattled prime minister overfeed so is resigning over his handling of inquiry into the murder of an investigative journalist who's afraid there was forced to step down after his kodesh and partners threatened to force a snap election will be replaced by the current deputy prime minister peter pellegrini slovakia's government has been plagued by protesters the death of a journalist could siac and his fiance they were killed as he prepared to publish the results of his investigation into alleged links between the italian mafia and top slow about politicians. about balog over is editor in chief of the slovak newspaper s m a which jointly published could see its investigation she joins us from some back as capital bratislava welcome to day w what will change with robert feet so's resignation. i'm afraid that at this point not much because but they'd be knee is just the softer version and also a bit feet so and i think he'll preserve the very same political culture and today at

saying in italy now in the economic condition of that country is likely to be a major influence kristoff in this election that's right bryan and they are key issues do people have work can they afford a living can they get ahead in life all of these issues are linked to the economy which in italy has seen a steady recovery in recent years grew by one and a half percent last year but problems remain one of the biggest is italy's national debt firmly entrenched at one hundred thirty percent of annual g.d.p. only struggling greece owes more so it's quite a mixed bag of economic indicators right before sunday's elections what to tell us make of it take a look. at the i expect a change of pace on many important aspects security equality and citizens' welfare . even a sort of egypt that you know. yes but i don't expect much i hope whoever wins will do more. peaceful because i think something could change but it depends on which coalition wins i'm not sure if they'll be a clear winner most likely they'll have to compromise and reach a broader agreement. will it be a clear winner could it take m

. >> thank you very much, nick kristoff of the new york times.d you all the time. >>> and weighing in on the breaking news that is all bad, mcmasters is out as well as trump's top lawyer. he's firing everybody. you're watching "hardball." i try to take care of my teeth, but there's acid in what i eat and drink everyday that can do damage over a lifetime. so my dentist told me to go-pro with crest pro-health. crest pro-health protects against acids in everyday food and drinks better than regular toothpaste. that's how you nail a checkup. crest. fthere's flonase sensimist.tchy and watery near pollen. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. >>> welcome back to "hardball." we're back with tonight's breaking news. general h.r. mcmaster is leaving his role as national security adviser to be replaced by john bolton, the former ambassador to the u.n. mcmasters was a moderating voice on foreign policy which made for an uncomfortable fit with