and we think peter oliver for that report. and there continues to be focus on what the impact of tariffs might be upon apple incorporated the world's largest information technology company by revenue which brought in nearly three hundred thirty billion dollars last year alone might it also mean consumers will be paying more for apple products conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve malzberg joins us to take a look at steve welcome thanks as always for being with us let's start with sort of a baseline i mean apple is a u.s. company and they've been doing really well and that's reflected in the stock price not just for the last month or last year or year over year for many years but they actually have not that many folks are actually employed in the united states they're really an international company and have a heck of a lot of manufacturing done overseas right. oh yeah great to be here bart absolutely when you look at apple the manufacturing can and components are again from other companies which are located all over th

correspondent peter oliver from berlin. the dax is germany's blue chip stock market index and amongst the global names listed there are the likes of siemens the farmer sooty coal and chemicals giant buyer the automotive international daimler group they're the guys that bring you miss a.d.'s how does the dax look right now it's been affected by a ten point plus drop in the zandi w. indicator of economic sentiment well what that gives an indication of is the opinions of economic columnists sound of analysts of how they think things are going to pan out and it's not making good reading at the moment ten points plus down it is however better than the thirteen point drop that was predicted now this drop in the city w. it didn't affect the currency markets we see it we saw the dollar in the euro route trade relatively as they had before however it was the dax the took a hit and in fact any type of recovery of those numbers has been incredibly sluggish as germany's stock exchange is being slow to recover. and we thank peter oliver

claim that they had karen government's policy says breach the values of the union or at least peter oliver has more the european parliament came together in strasburg on tuesday for a plenary session on what to do about hungary and whether article seventy measures will be put in place or budapest what article seven essentially means is it's the ultimate political lawtey step in the european union it strips all could strip and suspend the voting rights of hungry in the e.u. institutions essentially taking away their voice in the in the wealth of the european family there were lots of allegations made against victor orbán his government and the nation of hungary listen to a few of them now sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report in particular as regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judicial individuals into government and rich themselves their family. remember steph rents from public funding from utopian taxpayer money less alexian is this that we cannot close our eyes to the problems in handling the elections this y

and now our tease peter oliver tells us a story about beer and some businesses that are working hard on a new beer for a tear but this was cries a lot of you here's peter from berlin. africa has become the world's fastest growing market for sales of beers we look at twenty eight teen it's expected to have grown the be a market anyway by four point five percent compared to one point four percent globally well the focus has moved away from premium brands and towards cheaper brews in fact we've seen heineken the world's second largest brewer launch a one hundred fifty million euro operation in the ivory coast in their biggest seller well it's a local brew that uses local rice for the fermentation process and is flying off the shelves since twenty fourteen those economies that were dependent upon commodities well they've suffered really badly specifically particularly places like nigeria if we look at it one of the world's biggest be a brands of guinness and its parent company geo i mean we stay in nigeria but it's become too expensive simply as what we're hearing we've seen the big boys

and we thank peter oliver for that report and as he mentioned a few of the largest stocks traded on the dax there's a little more on those siemens a german technology engineering multinational started off the year here seventy dollars per share but is down to about sixty four dollars in trading today and buyer a bear the drug maker and newish owner of troubled one santo which we've spoken about related to their weed killer problems has seen a decline as we might expect in stock prices this year especially following that ruling which awarded two hundred eighty nine million dollars to a plaintiff in california who said his cancer was caused by a month's santo's weedkiller the stock went from just over thirty dollars in january to just above twenty two dollars in trading today and dimer agena which owns among other things british sadie's benz has faced some troubled times related to emissions scandal that expanded to other automakers outside of the first both swag and including done work at the start of the year di more stock was roughly eighty two dollars per share but it has dropped also

man was stabbed to death by people the police described as being of various nationalities he's peter oliver was there for. the demonstration it was organized by alternative for germany now they explained to me that the. demonstrations in the big. getting of the week that they had counseled and joined in no said that they were going to join in with the a.f.p. demonstration a woman things we can see is coming so they're very keen to make sure that there's no no protests that are being allowed to get closer than this one of the organizers that dreaming and shouting at the press that they need to move out of the way this is the press we're here to talk about you what are you twenty why are you pushing me all the way. and what you're seeing for the demonstration from the day is a large crowd that's been gathering steadily at the end of the streets here. the anticapitalist screen as you can see is it ponsford so right along the street that they are being kept is far away as possible by the incredibly large police presence we've got a left wing demonstration about half a kilometer that way i'm in

migrants were acting in self defense but marcus his father claims the video shows the opposite peter oliver has been speaking to him. cullison hempel son marcus was killed last year here in vicksburg after an altercation with migrants when he's spoken out about his grievances and demonstrations he's found himself labelled a nazi. because of a russian military intelligence officer working for secret outfits who'd unit two six one six five began probing the computer network of the democratic national committee hitting nine states in three weeks and some of twenty fourteen and a book or chew over and alexandre cruel over was supposed to gather intelligence to help the mimic american some facebook and twitter the evidence is all their names dates and motives again from indictments now i'm sure the new york times isn't willing to accept miller's word as gospel but things seem a little too dramatic perhaps even for president putin putin is angry the russian leader thought the united states and hillary clinton had sought to undermine his presidency and there are plenty more where that came from so

ok let's go straight to berlin now and our correspondent there peter oliver peter we got a taste of the press conference there what else was said. well this was the full honors the red carpet firmly rolled out for president of turkey he's received the full military honors the full state banquet will be taking place on friday evening but this press conference it was all very friendly on the surface but just scratch a little bit below and it was very clear that there are still a number of issues that there are real tensions between berlin and over president one for his side he was very keen to bring things back to talking about economic cooperation between turkey and germany one of the main reasons for this of course could well be that it's on economic territory that germany and turkey can unite against one person in particular. well at the press conference it was announced that there will be an upcoming a meeting on syria and conspicuous by their absence from that list of invitees was donald trump in the united states that meeting will comprise the leaders of russia of turkey of germany

removed from his post but still he remains in a powerful position within the government as are two peter oliver explained. masson is out as the head of germany's interior security services that it's roughly the equivalent of say m i five in the united kingdom all the f.b.i. in the united states isn't going to be out of work though he's moving into a new position in the interior ministry as the state secretary for that ministry it seems although out of one position he's found a new home alongside horse example for the office of the president of the office for the protection of the constitution will. be reshuffled mr become a state secretary in the interior ministry interior minister whole silver has high regard for mr marson abilities on questions of domestic security it's fair to say though that the opposition here in germany far from happy with this move in fact alternative for germany the largest opposition party in the bundestag saying ultimately it's the voters that lose out in this recent game of musical chairs america has cleared in other critic out of the way under now this can be celebr

peter oliver and buster. the austrian interior ministry has been left red faced it's after an internal memo was leaked in which they instruct the police how to handle the media essentially if they don't write nice things about us give them nothing. i would suggest that communication with these media should be limited to only the most necessary levels and that they should not be allowed to contain sweetie's such as exclusive accompaniments unless you see real added value or the possibility of neutral or even positive reporting the leak included some of the media organizations on the do not engage list editor is raging with the ministry and interior minister but. this is informational blockade for bad media and sweets for the good ones our democracy does not have to be in darkness just because a minister feels too weak to withstand criticism and appears unfit for the sensitive ministry there are violations of their all the law and fundamental values then he must end up for it the sense of security is just the f

head coming under fire for his latest comments are more violence and that europe correspondent peter oliver has the details. plenty of questions heading the way. and the head of germany's internal intelligence service the b.f.r. that's roughly the equivalent of m i five in the united kingdom or the f.b.i. in the united states now he made claims in an interview last week with a german newspaper that videos it was supposed to show members of the migrant demonstration groups hunting down and attacking people in the city of chemists who looked foreign or they thought were migrants he said videos could well have been faked and actually directly accused the media of trying to manipulate public opinion by putting those videos out of a see strong claims made against the press already there they become even stronger when you look that chancellor angela merkel specifically cited these videos in her well admonishment of the anti migrant demonstrators of the far right demonstrators in the city of camden and elsewhere across germany there's been a lot of calls for mr marson to produce some proof to back

correspondent peter oliver who joins us from the e.u. in berlin gentlemen welcome thanks for being here i'd like peter you to sort of step the stage and get out some of the issues that are going to be investigated. ok well what's. the european commission is looking into and this preliminary stages where that amundsen abused its position as the platform which was selling products from a policy that is like let's put this in a simple example say i come up with a product let's call it all of this would differ with sell them through amazon amazon can then see exactly who's buying my product who's leaving comments on my product. and they can essentially use that is market research to then roll out their own version of my product and sell it in some cases a cheaper price they're investigating it whether this is being done and if it is being done whether it's legal or not and it's really really not a great great summary peter and an amazon when you think about. it when you think about amazon being this huge monolith and and out there with all th

how some businesses are working towards a new beer run here i bet it will surprise you archie's peter oliver gives us the details from berlin were firmly locked and loaded so let's get right to a few headlines leading our report today china is formally petitioning the world trade organization the w t o to impose seven billion dollars in annual trade sanctions on the united states at a meeting on september twenty first china will reportedly press for penalties pursuant to their twenty seven. victory in a case filed all way back in two thousand and thirteen last year's w t o ruling found fault with the us method for calculating whether chinese exports are actually dumping their goods in the us or simply selling that at a lower price abroad than they do at home china also one of the w t o last month in a similar case regarding sixteen billion dollars worth of chinese exports that were terrified by the u.s. stock markets worldwide trying to down on the news on this specific news rather and as a drumbeat of developments continues in the tense trade triangle between the u.s. china and the european

correspondent peter oliver who joins us from the e.u. in berlin gentlemen welcome thanks for being here i'd like peter you to sort of step the stage and get out some of the issues that are going to be investigated. ok well what's your opinion you know what the european commission is looking into in this preliminary stages where that amundsen abused its position as the e-commerce platform which was selling products from a third party that it's like let's put this in a simple example say i come up with a product let's call it all of this would. sell them through than amazon can then see exactly who's buying my product who's leaving comments on my product and they can essentially use that is market research to then roll out their own version of my product and sell it in some cases a cheaper price they're investigating it whether this is being done and if it is being done whether it's legal or not and it's really really not a great great summary peter and an amazon i mean you think about. it when you think about amazon being this huge monolit

tech center at american university and we take a look at the german dax with r t correspondent peter oliver plus the or should we told you about last time between twenty first century fox and comcast for control of u.k. sky broadcasting was completed over the weekend the first thirty nine billion is comcast we look at comcast as an entity and ask our.

chancellor merkel used in her condemnation of the rioting that here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. well hans york matsson is out as the head of germany's internal security services but he's not going to be signing on for jobseeker's allowance just yet he's actually gone from that job into a new role with the interior ministry in fact he's going to be the new state secretary for that ministry working alongside his political protector the german interior minister horse as a whole for the office of the president of the office for the protection of the constitution will be reshuffled mr zuma become a state secretary in the interior ministry interior minister whole see how far has high regard for mr martin's abilities on questions of domestic security where the opposition here aren't happy they've got on to say that it's the german people that lose out in this game of musical chairs merkel has cleared another critic out of the way under now this can be celebrated in the as p.d.s. tough and they hold firm could pull his hand out of the noose the voters are losing again because the criti

flaws in germany's own legal and enforcement systems with more details our europe correspondent peter oliver. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to r.t. its how a whopping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport can't be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation he originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving without a license and violations of the residency act but who year is remains a mystery we have a loose biography that suggests that he was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in north africa in the past he said that he was from morocco and also from algeria it could be that he is from one of those two countries or he c

more details now then from our europe correspondent peter oliver play to just a little snippet there of the press conference what else was said. it was all very friendly on the surface as you would imagine the red carpet is firmly being rolled out here in germany for president and he's gotten the the full state visit treatment booked on the surface everything seems very friendly it was quite clear that underneath there were some big problems still what we heard from particularly president to one was every time he wanted to get things back to talking about economic cooperation between turkey and germany one of the reasons for that of this of course is it's one of the few areas which burley and. pretty much united in and they united against donald trump in the united states. and we find it very important that we cooperate with germany in the economic field according to the win win principle we are thankful for german support our trade relationship is getting better again we want to win win situation with germany in the present and the future. well staying with the relationship between

and a twenty three year old syrian both charged with manslaughter charges europe correspondent peter oliver brings us the latest in the case. to the prison guard is he's been suspended from his job after admitting that it was him that leaked the photograph of those arrest warrants he's a thirty nine year old man who was working at the corrections facility in dresden he says he didn't know that it was a legal for him to share these documents to leak these documents. but he may well face criminal charges for doing so we heard a little bit of the statement that's being put out this is through his lawyers this is the only way he says he's going to be communicating from here on out said he didn't he did it because he didn't want the media to speculate on details as to who the arrested were he went on to accuse the press of having manipulated the facts in the past the put across a narrative that they wanted to see every day as a prison officer i am the focus of what has happened in our country from a few years ago and this intensity and manner nevertheless every day i see that most people are lie

living flaws in germany's own legal enforcement systems with more details our europe correspondent peter oliver. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to r.t. its how a whopping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport can't be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation he originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving without a license and violations of the residency act but who year is remains a mystery we have a loose spiral graphy that suggests that he was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in north africa in the past he said that he was from morocco and also from algeria it could be that he is from one of those two countries or

tech center at american university and we take a look at the german dax with r t correspondent peter oliver plus the or should we told you about last time between twenty first century fox and comcast for control of you case guide broadcasting was completed over the weekend the first thirty nine billion is comcast we look at comcast as an entity and i asked our friend steve walburga leinil of lionel media what the future holds also i'll tell you about some breaking and curious crypto news out just about two different countries italy and india they're taking decisively different directions on crypto currency we're jam packed as usual so let's write to a few headlines. china is warning that they are withdrawing from trade talks with the u.s. plan for next week has become more than an idle threat even worse trade issues now seem intend to go with geopolitical issues of war and peace on friday chinese trade diplomats scuttled the expected trade talks as promised over president trump's imposition of tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese exports to the u.s. a chines

peter, critics are saying in return north korea is asking a lot of america that simply cannot be given. maybe this is just a disingenuous olivehed life back into the talks. thtensions have been reduced but there's still a lot of work to do. and north korea talked about getting rid of one of their major nuclear sites, a russian built reactor but they want reciprocal steps by the united states and we're not exactly sure a what that means. does that mean u.s. troops off the peninsula, do we reduce or nuclear holdings. a lot of devil in the details. the words have to turn into deeds. i have to be cautiously optimistic secretary pompeo will meet with his counter part in north korea, e have a special envoy that's traveled to the region. we're talking again, which is good. but there's still a tremendous amount of work that needs to be done to get to the place where we want to be. charles: you know, r rebecca, there seems to be a genuine bromance between the presidents of north and south korea. and it seems that kim jong-un is somewhat so deuced b seduced bys he's seeing outside of his country. he's wealthy in his country but nowhere