ryan mittal and some of the companies doing that to outsourcing and having subsidiaries for example in south africa in saudi arabia in the united arab emirates they're not only at here of course to the norse there when it comes to exploiting weapons but also to tax laws and that means that all paying tax to the german government so many dimensions from the business perspective to the story concert didn't do you not consider weapons in germany is always a hugely controversial issue we have the opposition left fati complaining bitterly about the sale of weapons to saudi arabia and we also have the green party talking about the state setting weapons to tookie so how do you see this developing yes indeed it is very controversial and obviously when you export workmen's you conder really predict what's going to happen with those weapons and took is a good example turkey is a nato partner in other words there are very few restrictions from the german side to exporting weapons to took a back now turkish tanks are being used in northern i mean german tanks are being used in northern syria by tu

ensuring that those conflicts are remarkably bloody profits flowing to the german companies coffers ryan mittal declined repeated interview requests it insists it follows the laws of the countries it operates in. the german government also refused to take a stance in the company's overseas subsidiaries for the green party that's an untenable position. still tied to a plea cynical of these defense companies to complain about the strict german regulations while they found ways to dodge the rules such as through overseas operations. and then they continue to supply german weapons to crisis areas that's unacceptable we urgently need to close these loopholes. government researchers have recently said that german politicians can lawfully limit the overseas activities of german companies but it's unlikely that will pass in parliament. a lot of folks are traveling right now with the easter holiday happening and some of them are getting a rather unpleasant surprise yeah especially when they chose one particular airline air france because if you do then be patient and be open to alternatives every fourth