arcelor mittal we mentioned.lenty news coming through and lifting the individual names. benefiting also from these positive headlines around trade. the extent to which we will see a rollback of tariffs. that is part of the narrative in phase one. let's tell you about the downside of things in the markets. proceedings -- this german broadcaster is down by 7%, also a negative earnings story. deutsche telekom down by 2%. in frankfurt to speak to commerzbank, that stock is down by 2%. the bank of england makes its latest policy announcements today and will likely keep rates unchanged, but how will sterling react? the options market is saying that the worst is over for the pound. when we look at what one-month volatility has done, we can see traders have started heading into the boe decision. one-month volatility is now at its lowest since july. so the movement for the pound is likely to be upwards from here. but how much further up can sterling go? down at theen different options and the most soular call is 1.3, cert

today workers at arcelor mittal steel plant in saldanha ourselves south africa been protesting against the plant's closure small community 175 kilometers outside cape town is demanding the plant remains operational the closure would hit the small west coast town especially on this heavily dependent on the steelmaker for work. has asked the canadian courts to immediately stop the attempt to extradite its detained chief financial officer men one job to the united states while ways at the center of the us china trade conflict is the daughter of the company's founder was arrested at vancouver for nearly a year ago. an international charity is selling lottery tickets for $100.00 euros each with a chance to win the council's work nature water 200000 tickets up for grabs promising to raise far more than the cost of the 1000000 euro piece which dates from 121 or 2 on the project of the care in africa africa and geo. in ghana mungo farmers are losing over $100000000.00 u.s. dollars a year from an outbreak of what is called the bacterial blackspot the disease affects mango trees and fruits infec

say is not the only economic bush the government has to deal with this week global steel john also mittal announced it will begin shutting down its saldana steel plants that would put thousands out of work at the plant and in the local supply chain and in the country well employment is that 29 percent with youth unemployment at a staggering 55 percent. the clamor of steel production will soon die away at the salt on a steel plant 170 kilometers northwest of capetown it's. the world's largest steel producer and the largest on the african continent. says business is languishing in south africa and is out to cut costs threatening thousands of jobs sadhana plants workers fear for their livelihoods. and many others also stand to lose out. it's all that is still present this will make it to flee our business we were good people and this will have a big effect on the small businesses the schools all the operations even the east coast community we can't. be close we don't accept that we can really stick close to. this and we are saying come to the table a 3rd of south africa's population is aged

business as usual christine legarde has given her 1st official speech as he sees the president acela mittal is closing a steel plant in south africa thousands more names could be added to the country's already overlong joblessness. and the v. is for victory airbus has what it hopes is a winning idea to save fuel inspired by migrating birds. this is d.w. business i am rob what's in berlin welcome along christine legarde has used her very 1st official speech as president of the european central bank to put yet more pressure on wealthy euro zone countries to spend spend spend she told delegates in frankfurt that better targeted investment would be key to facing the region's challenges and urged them to create a greener more modern europe. a fresh face for the cameras but the message from christine lagarde was much the same as her predecessors it will be up to the eurozone members with the means to do it to help spend the region away from a possible recession. investment is a particularly important part of the response to today's challenges because it is both today's demands and tomorrow supply

we're joined from the summit by flora mittal he is the c.e.o. of melvin marsh international which when you factor is a melvin's team in kenya diana mbogo is c.e.o. of millennium engineers a renewable energy company operating in tanzania investigation way a c.e.o. of a river water group it provides infrastructure for clean water in rural areas of rwanda hello ladies it's good to see you i am just curious as to what point did you feel comfortable saying i am a business or and i am an entrepreneur i am the boss of me i know you've all got various different stories but that moment flora when you knew it you know any of this you could confidently walk out and say yes i run a business what was that. minute you know very interesting journey because i actually was only in the night months and work at a. college you. proceed to do the cantons you know tried to do you know the usual auditing in and the exams and i only survived 9 months and i quit and only do business so several years ago because there's no real clue we can use them to put new a ship busi