Is buying a 5 percent stake in germanys dima it further boost beijings holding in the maker off mercedesbenz costs was already almost 10 percent owned by chinese comprende g. E. Its the companys biggest single shareholder and now we can add to that b a i cs 5 percent holding that takes chinese shareholders stake in diamond to just under 15 percent thats almost as much of the company as its owned by us shareholders other stakeholders and on the include kuwaits sovereign savings fund and rivals rhino and nissen who have across holding the rest of the luxury carmaker is owned by private and Institutional Investors so now we have a dia about the make up off a dime to shareholders lets talk a little bit about this with our frontal market correspondent jealousy delaney who joins us now in frankfurt chelsea now i know that there was already a a long standing cooperation between a dime and it being a i. C. E. What does this stake cruft percent stake change in all that. Well this gives the 3rd
A recent agreement of an african free trade area is sim by some as an incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. While businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade not everyone is hopeful that all 15 members nations of the covered bloc of course have the political will to see it through next year. By degrees. Still ahead on the bulletin a defiant donald trump issues an executive order to determine who is living in the u. S. Legally and who isnt. Hello there its been a very unsettled picture polls across much of Southern Europe this some improvement the weather picture as we head through the next couple of days subjects out on the satellite and actually quite a bit of activity across Central Regions of western europe but what about the rain just yet but the good news is a sigh is that much of the south in the southeast those strong thunderstorms that really are clearing through certainly by friday the rain pushing the across much of
A wedding in advanced on killing 5 people and injuring dozens more the attack happened in the Eastern Province of no group has claimed responsibility. Still ahead on the bulletin how a decade to argentina socalled war ends experts are still working to identify the victims. How we will see the weather setting down for a little while across the southeastern corner youre following those nasty storms slickly across greece pushing over towards you but its making way for the mix there at the weather. Band of play out here now starting to fade its way across france through germany some west of where the talking in here was to go on through friday there but as you can see quite a down towards the southeast 28. 00 celsius the top temperature there for athens not too bad up which was at least decide if youre pathetic lab it should be a lousy dry lousy dry over towards the west much as the heat building once again for madrid temperatures here at around 40 celsius on friday falls back to 33 for sa
Seen a lot of coverage of the department of labor and what i have not seen it can credibly stop creation now has been difficult to me more than 5000000 jobs i havent seen that workplace injuries are down bucking it prepared for in 4th place the holidays are down but here we are friends that weve had this debate this year ever in mining the lowest ever fatality ever mining i have seen public of this pay that is over 12 years old that had input and bedding at multiple levels of the department of justice and if i look forward i do not think it is right and fair for this administration to Labor Department to have epstein as the focus rather than being credible it ought to be that we have today. And so i called the president this morning i told him that i thought the right thing to step aside no problem to put this to our temporary trust. It would be selfish for me to stay in this edition and to him you talking about a case of walters old rather than about the amazing ottoman we have right
The queen has addressed the Scottish Parliament to mark 20 years of devolution. In a speech to msps she said shed watched scotland grow and prosper since holyrood took on its legal powers two decades ago. Our correspondent Alexandra Mackenzie was there. Scotland is an old nation with a relatively new parliament. Its seen two decades of devolution. The queen, joined by the duke of rothesay, said she fondly remembered the opening ceremony. Today she was back addressing the current msps. I have no doubt that for most of these last 20 years this striking chamber has provided exactly that a place to talk. But, of course, it must also be a place to listen. A place to hear views that inevitably may differ quite considerably, one from another. And a place to honour those views. The Political Landscape has changed dramatically since 1999. Thats whats called competition, i think. The first first minister was the labour leader, the late donald dewar. Nicola sturgeon was then a young snp msp. Now