chinese car maker geely is planning a merger with its subsidiary valvo healy has held the swedish company at arm's length sense acquiring it in 2010 the chairman lee shifu says he wants to accelerate the sharing of financial and technical sources between the firms to create a quote strong global group. energy related related c o 2 emissions across the globe flattened in 2019 despite expectations of another rise and that's according to the international energy agency more a new about energy and the switch from coal to natural gas lead to less emissions from developed countries global warming and slowing economic growth in emerging markets also played a part. amazon and sony have joined the list of companies not attending the world rather the mobile world congress in barcelona later this month sweden's ericsson and l.g. from south korea are also withdrawing citing fears over the coronavirus. of china is bolstering its economy from the outbreak of the new coronavirus the central government has already freed up tens of billions of dollars worth of government stimulus and cities like shanghai

chinese carmaker dealy is planning a merger with its subsidiary valvo has held the swedish company at arm's length since acquiring it in 2010 chairman lee shu foods says he wants to accelerate the sharing of financial and tech resources between the firms to create a quote strong global group. australia and indonesia have announced a 100 day plan to implement their long awaited trade deal indonesian president djoko with dodo met australian prime minister scott morrison in canberra negotiations over the deal began a decade ago and the agreement was finally ratified last week that it intends to eliminate almost all tariffs between the 2 countries. right. now the new the new figures from di miller are in and the german automaker says its profits fell in 2019 that's the 2nd straight year of a profit lost this time to 2700000000 euros sorry a profit loss of 2790000000 euro 2700000000 euros result that certain to increase investor pressure on the german automaker and new investments and growing penalties related to the wide ranging diesel emissions scandal continue to eat into revenues and c

the science the 3 driving modes the x e 40 offers a whole range of safety systems valvo has always been at the forefront of driver safety. engineer kneels bullen invented the 3 point seat belts for the car maker back in 1959 german patent office named the belt one of the 8 inventions that most benefited humankind during the 100 years ending in 1905. with head side in the air bags of all the x e 40 scored top marks in the euro and c.a.p crash test. emergency brake assist and active lane keeping assist come standard. class cross traffic alert warns you of vehicles approaching from the side and braking support automatically applies the brakes in order to avoid a collision. but there's one problem with all the safety systems and that's not the systems themselves as they were pretty much flawlessly it's the way you control them because to activate or the activate the systems we have to do so through the and for payment stream they are menus on top of menus that open up even more menus and i don't know maybe it's just personal preference and after a week or so of driving the car you will even

prison well right now he is and i'm sure we'll figure out what goes from from here but when dealing valvo the idea was to leave it as a standalone swedish car company but not anymore really is going to absorb all into one global business unit but it seems that the vehicles will maintain their old branding is that right and there is this move about this move this move about actually the slowing of the auto industry economy. well there is a slowing in the economy but obviously anytime you can share platforms and technology you're going to save money so geely which is a chinese company owning a small portion of volvo which they've put just in 2010 vocals always been about safety they develop the seat belt that's always been their thing about safety and being ahead of the game and part of that is they want to do more electric platforms so in order to have hybrid or mild hybrid which in other words you get the boost of the hybrid when you need it coming off the light but you still have that gasoline powered engine or plug in if you choose something that they'll be able to now have more technol

let's get more now from ahmed valvo joins me from madison mahmut how are african leaders looking to find those roles for themselves in finding a solution to the libyan conflict. that's subject to be developed tomorrow when they meet on the 1st day of the 2 day summit and we have been listening in the last couple of days to some of the statements by heads of delegates here about how important africans are trying to focus this time around on libya africa feels that it has been marginalized with regards to peace efforts and negotiations in libya as mentioned in the report that you have just saw seen just a while ago the secretary general of the united nations until you go terrorists gave a press in which he used the word scandal to describe what's happening in libya saying that some of the big powers members in the united nations security council are complicit in what's happening in terms of the importation of weapons and also fighters and so on he talked about the embargo that has been imposed in 2011 being violated time and again he talked about the recent tools that has been signed being