As conflicts intensify ill be meeting with key players on the ground in the senses of our conscience or the rhetoric holding the powerful. Home for the. Conflict zone confronting the powerful long d. W. Of b. W. Shake up europes leading comic it sounds like once someone you were in the drivers seat the scandal Ridden Company considers an executive board reshuffle. Breach warnings reached facebook users just hours before c. E. O. Congressional broiling. Is the trumps task tantrum walking the u. S. President s protectionist threats have his chinese counterpart making all sorts of promises. A bit fizzle and lets do business more controversial over the german. Says it could be set to replace chief executive mathias middle of the board is scheduled to meet friday reports are already mounting that success will be head of the b. W. Brand have at these militias only been in the job for a few years and though the company has paid billions in compensation over the diesel gate scandal its actually selling more cars than ever. So why why is all this happening Stephen Beardsley my colleague is here to maybe shed some light on this one whats going on whats gone on over v. W. That we dont know about its a fascinating question because this is caught everyone by surprise theres been no big scandals that have really popped off recently theres been rumors of this and theres been nothing else to suggest that there was going to be a sudden change the top now of course theres always internal boardroom politics that we may not know about but lets also look at the big picture here miller was brought in to folks wagon to to lead it to more than two years ago when he was still a porsche where he was actually quite happy according to all reports he was brought in to lead the worlds biggest carmaker at a time of its biggest scandal and so imagine how difficult a job this must have been for him for the past two years of course hes had to watch as colleagues have been arrested prosecuted as has paid out billions of dollars in settlements twenty billion dollars more than twenty billion dollars in the us none in europe we should point out. And as diesel itself has become a synonym for dirty not clean so hes presided over all of this in a sense hes meant to hes been meant to leave the brand sort of back into the good graces of consumers and its a lot perhaps for one man to do and perhaps a lot for one company to expect of one person keep in mind he also had to lead an environmental revolution or at least have an environmental scrubbing for v. W. Electrification of its vehicles and also expand its brand in china so when you look at that as well its again a huge list of tasks for the. Man and he has done a lot of the dirty work but alice want to see the Company Culture change is his said to be replacement did is going to be able to do that i mean hes an insiders in it right and thats an interesting point too because there was sort of speculation at one point that perhaps they would bring in some of the outside this was i think about a year ago but if you look at d. C. He does his reputation as a numbers man someone whos very interesting the bottom line unions might be a little concerned about him coming in but otherwise hes not that different really from mueller theyre both about the same age they both have a long history in the Auto Industry and distant even come in that far before the Diesel Scandal hit so its really not even cleaner then mueller was so if youre looking for someone who was perfectly detached from the scandal for books like in the time that it happened thats not even d. C. So the question is what can he really do thats going to be different or what face will he bring that is different from what you were brought steve bids a lets see if what changes are v. W. And if they get to change anything thank you very much facebook has started notifying uses affected by the cambridge analytical scandal their information was improperly shed for political campaigning it comes as facebook founder and c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg heads for congress for a dressing down and that getting all dressed up for the affair. Theres plenty of reason for the anger about to be unleashed on zuckerberg a Political Consulting firm scraped the data of eighty seven million facebook users a Russian Campaign created fake accounts and advertisements both efforts to sway the two thousand and sixteen president ial election neither stop by facebook now users feel uncertain politicians are concerned investors are rattled Facebook Stock has dropped significantly most alarming for the fourteen Year Old Company is that its very Business Model making money from users data is increasingly under fire that data was supposed to be used by advertisers in the mean Time Facebook would connect the world as sucker berg likes to say or instead its been used to divide societies along partisan lines with evidence that the Company Either didnt notice or didnt care now many wonder if thats a structural flaw instead of a glitch and one that needs to be corrected. Protect our promises just on the basis of somebody telling you that theyre going to protect so does that mean wall yes does that mean regulation yes means im adding to the interest around his testimony is dr briggs image as a calculating awkward genius an archetype of the new tech titans an image he has tried to undo in recent years yet his appearances have been rare selective and generally on his own terms suckered has been preparing for this testimony for weeks according to news reports facebook has been laying the groundwork with new privacy measures and more interviews according to his prepublication testimony sucker berg will stress his companys responsibility and hell apologize. But when the questions begin can he help his company recover or at least avoid further damage. China has poured cold water on the heated tariff dispute with the us both sides have been threatening steeper import duties but the trade war could just start winding down with the chinese found to open the economy and cut tariffs this time. Cars are a major Sticking Point in the trade conflict between the worlds two biggest economies the us pays a twenty five percent tariff on cars it brings to china while china only pays two point five percent in duties on cars that exports to the u. S. Thats not the complete picture the u. S. Sells six times more cars in china than the other way around but appeasing washington was the thrust of chinese president xi jinping speech to an audience of International Business leaders at the forum of young. She charged we will lower the import tariffs for cars. John b. At the same time we will lower the import tariffs of some other products. The only legal there are cards to respect that peoples demands for special superior product imports. She also pledged improved access to the Financial Sector and stronger intellectual Property Rights although the u. S. Was not specifically mentioned she speech seemed that addressing the sources of the trade conflict his words were welcomed by markets the world over but chinas made similar commitments before with little implementation this time around however the stakes are higher insufficient action could pave the way for further escalation. Kristens joins us now senior partner of the International Consultancy control risks in london chris first of all i want to point out to our viewers that there is quite a lot of trump bashing that is done in the Business World clarify for me do these concessions from china mean trump strategy those those threatening tariffs and a trade war is actually working. Well i think mr trump will perhaps believe theyre working he will certainly trumpet these these measures as a victory for him and obviously hes hes keen to get some tangible wins with the midterm elections in the u. S. Coming up in the autumn so hes going to emphasize that hes made progress and its been his tough stance getting tough on china which is which has enabled him to do that but i think if you look at what president xi jinping actually said it. Earlier today its not that different from his his tone back in davos of the World Economic forum last january and its actually quite short on details so he is perhaps giving mr trump what he wants but if you look at those concessions these are things that have been talked about in the past for example the the lifting of the the cop on Foreign Ownership in with automotive j. B. S. In china that was mentioned last november so its its positive broadly speaking because i think president xi jinping is is demonstrating perhaps that perhaps hes taking the opportunity to show that hes the hes the grown up in the room and hes not just going to engage in tit for tat. Trade war so hes sort of taking the upper ground but hes not actually giving that much away at this stage again it was interesting from those statements to to see that. She didnt actually mention the u. S. Now tell me the chances of china eventually following through on these promises that its promised so many times. Yes i mean its easy to be a little cynical about about this perhaps but i think we have to remember that china needs Foreign Direct Investment chinas entire economy is based around ten percent growth which has been partly insured over the last three decades of that double digit growth by Foreign Direct Investment so it needs that to continue to bring wealth to its people and for the Chinese Communist party to continue to justify its position as the as the ruling power certainly needs f. B. I. I think perhaps the stakes are increasingly high now but as the market is opened up so china has opened up more strategic sectors such as automotive and Financial Services so i i think that we will genuinely see a lift on the investment at the end should count for automotive hopefully later this year and will continue to see certain sectors opening up other nonstrategic sectors have been open open for years chris just give me a quick yes or no because we believe the interview here is the trade war now over. I can sum it up in one word i hope so but theres a lot of skin in the game thats already got its already taken place i will just have to wait and see but hopefully trump has what he wants like a believer their big hopeful maybe from chris toroids on that one from control risks thank you. And i stand business a few a. Touch comes to a. Compliment. The tremendous amount. Of. The to a review of. The to. The. Exploring mosul with the camera. Rolling you photographs home and. 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