Starting in italy which is holding a general election this sunday investors will keep a close eye on the outcome at the moment the Italian Economy is strengthening albeit less than its european neighbors unemployment has fallen slightly to ten point eight percent and the percentage of nonperforming loans is also down but twelve point two percent is still some three hundred billion euros a huge burden for italys banks and that reflects on italys business scene where its hard to raise capital still some startup pioneer is a managing to prosper like two entrepreneurs we met in milan. So now im entering the store you espouse it all developes b. To be Virtual Reality Simulation Software for retailers such as Companies Based in milan in italy a country he says is not up to speed in all respects you know immediately when youre talking about food fashion and design is ok when youre talking about technology. Is different response it also says the internet is too slow and the red tape too cumbersome and there are other problems as well in the world banks ease of doing business index italy ranks forty six just behind romania. It can also be a challenge to raise capital in italy maybe we dont have these and tertiary colleges are now and so if you want to do technology maybe you need the great investments and here. Is how and its difficult to. Raise funding since so maybe counters that are more profitable more of them more easy then. Italys economy is not in great shape the Banking Sector remains fragile with lots of bad debt on the books. Poverty is widespread. The economy is still smaller than before the two thousand and eight financial crisis though it has been growing slowly for the past three and a half years. Melanne is italys financial and Industrial Capital and its leading startup hub. Its where the online wealth manager money farm was set up in twenty eleven its a socalled robo Investment Advisor cofounder paolo got viney raised twenty five Million Euros of Venture Capital though not all of it in italy our ambition always been to become a european player so. When we started we started in italy but then of course the move to long was in some way for a series of elements or lack of capital for instance. Looking for capital to scale the combine it was. Was basically the only way of making it it was was so u. K. Guns loni says doing business in italy is not as tough as it used to be he cites recent changes to the law that make it easier to set up Innovative Companies and says milan is at the forefront. Is becoming more kind of an examples that the. Trying to just like copy and move in that direction so. I perceive me. As a more as a leader rather than back by the overall situation. Italy elects a new parliament on march the fourth and the question is what Economic Policy will the next government adopt. Political parties are offering further reforms of various and competing kinds. Populist parties are promising to end austerity and boost spending. Opinion polls suggest they are in the lead. Matteo asbos ito is concerned about the election outcome its unclear whether current policies will remain in place as an entrepreneur im worried about the election because italy needs stability and weve the last two governments so we had a lot of new. And we. We should the intention to change or and now we are again here at the vote sewing italy everything can change every time and so or if its a bit scary. For Technology Developed by a suppose its on his team of fifteen has made it to market even though conditions for start ups may not be optimal. The United States i can have meeting in twenty four hours or i can have a yes or no or in two days and here maybe i take weeks or months or so i see this gap. But i dont feel stuck in the here i am proud to be here. No matter how the election turns out but challenges for milan and the country remain to continue to strengthen italys still fragile economy. Well here in germany was still waiting for a binding ruling on diesel emissions in inner cities especially in stuttgart the home of porsche and to diana but its al quality is still great compared to other regions in terms of find us pollution around the world asian cities come out on top with average levels of up to two hundred or more micrograms per cubic meter europes most polluted city measures eighty one far more than stuttgart eighteen micrograms a cubic meter and yet that is enough to cause Health Problems a something needs to be done in london eggers caught up with some air quality pioneers from seeing its. Just breathing normally is painful here the air is foul and burns your eyes. Indias megacity delhi was enveloped in thick smog last november its a problem many cities face worldwide even if not quite as extreme as this. Of course it often has a lot to do with a geographic location then theres the weather and it depends as well on how people are heating their homes and if you get a calm and stable High Pressure system which happens here frequently with no wind blowing then none of the filth gets blown out of the city council. Thats just the type of problem siemens is trying to tackle at the crystal it center for sustainable or been development in london here the expert air pollution reports for cities across the globe are prepared using data collated by tailor made software thats already been tested in london. This tool do not start here. And we can access the data recorded by a london monitoring station. And were looking at having to take action to counteract the threat of exceeding pollution limits. Of their frequently unpopular measures and this tool helps City Planners to say ok im going to have a problem and three to five days. That would mean keeping as many cars as possible out of the city those which do enter are charged a fee which increases in line with the amount of harmful exhaust a vehicle emits the cars are identified using londons road toll system which has been in place for fourteen years right now you pay eleven pounds to enter the city on a weekday. Thats what the come straight off your bank account yes basically straight away and in the future that will at least double that might be even more expensive for diesel vehicles. There are no tolls in german cities Something Else asias got a head start on in one nine hundred seventy five singapore became the first city to levy an entry fee for vehicles today its one of the cleanest cities in asia. On the other hand you have to see that in india or china besides the Industrial Production which is going on all over the city as traffic also plays a huge role and they wont get their air quality problems sorted out if they dont start taking action on their traffic. And people are increasingly migrating to the cities a global trend siemens highlights in the crystal cities offer jobs culture hospitals its senseless to keep polluting these increasingly important Living Spaces with exhaust fumes so which city would alex and ebbing house prefer to live in. Here in london and londons got a huge debate going on about air pollution in which the new mayor said he can is just beginning to deal with if i think about it probably move to the countryside. An understandable attitude for an expert in pollution levels in major urban centers. Now the diesel gate scandal is closely linked to air pollution around the world and to fox the german carmaker that since been struggling to regain credibility and to redefine itself as reliable future oriented and green a tall order which fox fan believes is in good hands with its chief digital officer. I keep hearing about balts margins desire to reinvent itself and shake off the diesel. Im introduced to cedric its car of the future. The first v. W. Model thats self driving and digitally network. And this is the man behind. You one young known as j. J. Folks talking head hunted him from. The you word or can i call you j. J. We are in the car but neither of us is driving hows that. As a self driving car thats what cedric stands for the acronym just happens to be a cute name theres no cockpit no Steering Wheel and no pedals this kora takes us from a to b. Also has a Steering Wheel the problem is they. Dont need one because a self driving system controls the car with three hundred sixty degree sensors and it has lasers radar cameras and ultrasound for close range. Were working to release it in the next three or four years id like to see the first cedrics on the road by twenty twenty one we also call it mobility as a service its self driving electric car anyone could use to get from door to door electrician. In a spirit of herat with you from Silicon Valley is that something we need a bit more of you know that you need thats really important to think big like a visionary and have the courage to drive progress forward second guess what answered. J. J. Is an engineer. Through and through his current passion is network self driving cars. He says progress has been far too slow. He worked for a mercedes and apple in the us before v. W. Snapped him up right at the peak of the emissions scandal. The v. W. Bosses need him to keep the company abreast of the industrys digital transformation. Thinking differently than the old with the old im finding it hard to imagine that being easy v. W. Folks so happy here active in their crease if it includes a middle of the crisis in october twenty fifteen when i chose to join the company i had this gut feeling that this is where i would be able to make a real difference and even so and that the brands and the company as a whole would now be much more open to the changes that we are facing electron through the switch from combustion engines to electric drive from humans driving that himself driving cars from ownership to shared mobility mobility is a service. But what about joblessness those are if the guys at the well yes the changeover could mean job losses but well still need experts just in other areas what weve already achieved with hardware attaining a very high level becoming the best in the world thats what we have to do now with software and with services thats with us its a win thats off the shelf and then so well need a lot of new skills and capabilities and people weve never had in the company before or had very few of them will be needed a phone have you brought anything with you from Silicon Valley certain attributes a different way of solving problems. Definite even a minus think definitely you need to start with a clear vision you have to know whats making you want to stay up working and tinkering away and tell one in the morn. If you need a sense of purpose and i dont just mean a purpose and why exactly why youre doing what youre doing and for me the goal is mobility for everyone at the push of a button everyone all over the world often in africa the blind sick elderly people in wheelchairs who have to hold themselves to bus stops and train stations so. It doesnt have to be like that. We could give these people door to door mobility these things are in my d. N. A. And they motivate me and theres more to me as a threat improving the world is in your d. N. A. Yeah you could say that. Driving electric cars really make the world a better place. B. W. Has big plans for the ecard but right now its still pretty neat. Combustion and hybrid engine still dominate the market and with autonomous driving there are still some Unanswered Questions whos responsible if theres an accident for example. You on your embodies volkswagens vision to be so much more than a car maker. Speaking of visions the sea has always inspired humans to dream of great things in particular off ruling the waves beat a seafaring nation or us engineers who use the tides to generate power but thats easier said than done while hydro Kinetic Energy is a potentially valuable resource it takes advanced technology to harness a scottish under German Company join forces to attempt it. Its winter and icy cold out on the water here in the west of scotland david started scott as inspecting the rotor blades at this new float. Entitle energy power station is being tested here hes checking the output. Studdard scott has been working on the project for two years. The arms on which the turbines are known said can be easily raised with this platform we can swing a turbine up out of the water we can inspect it we can see if the blades are damaged the turbine needs cleaning we can run tests on it and its completely necessary we can change our whole writer. This is new Cutting Edge Technology a Floating Tidal Energy platform. The currents in the bay here are powerful mines weft just whats needed to get those rotors spinning. Is i mean it is i think a year earlier standard scott and news now from the German Company involved in the project came to see if this would be a suitable spot for a trial. That you might hear when we were together investigating which would be a good demonstration side weve found this place here which is if you will too in terms of flow in terms of accessibility you also for the for the Marine Operations but also for the operation of the platform later on so this is a very its. The currents are driven by tidal forces every day huge volumes of water rushing out to sea from the lock and then back again. But if it needs nonna asked local fisherman about the currents in the area and where they think the best spot for the turbines might be. If there are other sites on the scottish coast where currents are powerful but not many of them are this accessible. Is just the the flow of that coming through such a. Channel it builds up so it builds up the stairway and. When its running in. You do see more coming in well you know thats whats to be hard for speed possibly up to twenty the twenty two dogs or spot design or. The small board or fishing boat of course the. Does hop difficulty going against the tide. The project office overlooks the bay planning a hydro kinetic power plant like this and getting it up and running even for a trial phase cant be done remotely the peoples of the boat which drives all of the floating platform is anchored with steel cables to the seabed of the power such a plant generates could be fed into the electricity grid on land they could also be used off grid to power about three hundred households in this project the Scottish Company Sustainable Marine Energy built the platform german firm shuttle hydro made the turbines and rotors suttle specializes in marine Propulsion Systems including water jets like this. Of. This old pedal steamer has been fitted out with just such jets its in service on the rhine river here in germany. That regularly passes by shuttle headquarters. Subtle was founded in one thousand nine hundred twenty one and has been developing and manufacturing marine propulsion and Steering Systems ever since it employs some Thirteen Hundred people worldwide. To shuttle hydro units which nearly as long a runs can build on the groups proprietary propeller technologies. This new unit at the Company Develops systems to harvest hydro Kinetic Energy a valuable brand new of all source. Here they were testing a generator for the project in scotland to see. Its robust enough to function in the icy water for long periods of time. This is a unique opportunity for me personally and for the entire team were almost all engineers so its a joy to have the opportunity to develop a new product. But in addition were helping to create a new market its like it was with wind energy twenty five years ago. On the. Back and kind of potential customers have arrived first theyre shown the local sites such as done stuff which council. Then its time to set off to inspect the platform. And david start scott are pitching the technology. Their Companies Want to install platforms in other parts of the globe. These men are from china. To rome ring go is from the United States he had so whether global a Renewable Energy project developer. Because we recognize that hydro kinetic is the next best thing to producing electricity specially in developing countries. Fossil fuels are not the best option because to fully utilize the overall of all resources the rivers that are there all this technology is a perfect fit for what we need in africa to meet the electricity demand the Developers Say the platform could replace diesel generators in many off Grid Locations like remote areas of Southeast Asia the one in connell has already been sold and will soon be shipped off to the philippines. If you followed the Berlin Film Festival last week you might have noticed lots of women among the prize when its about time i call because theyre not cool by us met a female german Film Producer to chat about the role of women in the industry. Something really great is going on in the Film Industry women are given proper roles were not just dumbstruck props just waiting for our hero to come and rescue us know we are the heroes and the bad guys we stick up for ourselves and not the rest out we are here to save the world or even the whole galaxy. The Film Industry was shaken to its core in twenty seventeen women exposed the widespread sixwire harassment behind the camera a culture of abusive behavior come from our first company. On camera we were becoming super heroes in films like wonder woman or star wars was that just coincidence i dont think so and thats true as much for real life as it is sponsoring. What i decide and. Lets also. She woman. I worked last year. To feel. How can we strike a balance between the sexes on the big screen they are as often and i definitely need more strong screen roles for women like the ones weve been seeing in t. V. Series take the good wife that killing or the mantis those are really special great women characters thats not quite as evident in cinema even internationally. Twenty seventeen was a very good year with films like the shape of water or three billboards outside every missouri with Frances Mcdormand those are powerful female roles but we need more of them and more strong women behind the camera too and that im a female. If women get more leading roles in films what would that change for him politically because it has a major social impact women would get more respect in society and be treated differently when you already see it in t. V. Series women get respect as top attorneys and top Police Detectives and. So you believe films can change or influence reality. Yes by depicting women who arent just wives who might work but not in a serious way. Can show us powerful women who can do practically anything off on women who might not want children to focus on their career instead of trying them kind of get out on the subject to be involved why no. Discussion has been long in the making a few people in the u. S. Probably started thinking about it looking for stories with strong women. For example Steven Spielbergs the post with a terrific meryl streep in the lead and have to. Say were starting to look for stories with strong women stories that were different and also. A nation out and buys a. Book finally. You can rely on us to the thing evil we will save the world we really can maybe even better and its good for the guys in the cinema sitting next to us they dont have to be heroes anymore they just can sit back and relax and maybe even cry. 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