Committed to fear working conditions and sustainable production. But who is monitoring the some contractors. And investigative documentary goes to italy and china and looks behind the glamorous facades of fashion houses of. Luxury behind the murray starts no membership on the dollar. This week on world stories. Planting trees despite opposition in china. Saving penguins in south africa. We begin in germany where people of kurdish descent. Are concerned about the turkish armys invasion of Northern Syria many of them fear for the lives of their families there. All week. Looks forward to soccer training with his club. Like most of the players could he know comes from the kurdish autonomous region and Northern Syria. He finds it difficult to concentrate on the game on the conflict in his homeland is still going on. We are worried about our families on the team talks about it. Its not just me but others have relatives there we support each other. All. Came to germany as a refugee from syria
Keeping a close eye on the news he said but also angry with the German Government. Thats. Germanys providing weapons for this war. And it just tears me apart inside. To talk. English the German Government has condemned the turkish offensive and his band new arms exports to turkey but berlin has not canceled existing weapons contracts. And the guns and germany is the worlds 3rd largest arms exporter so were selling weapons to dictators like air to one and we dont really care what happens with these weapons these in the. Arms to exports are highly controversial in germany the kurds are strictly opposed to weapon sales to turkey and they take to the streets over it like here in berlin the demonstrators are demanding economic sanctions against ankara and a stop to the fighting and not in syria. The west has left the kurds to fend for themselves the kurds in. Their own. Were trying to apply a bit of political pressure including on the German Government on the whole. All the no once to demon
Im melissa chan youre watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us well it might be fridays for a future but its wednesdays for women on the program today our stories all feature women as a theme in some way we start with Climate Change in china how the country decides to tackle its environmental problems will determine the direction of the Global Climate crisis correspondent Mathias Bolinger tags along with one student there who understands the urgency. Whenever she can how we know this its the flower market in her home city of we need who conquered money she buys trees seedlings to plant in the surrounding areas. Its his contribution to the world wide fridays for future protests how he joined the movement 4 months ago chinas 1st climate strong. I dont feel planting trees is something thats easy to do and something thats possible to promote in china was a while fossil it inspired by young people around the world how you started demonstrating in front of the local government offic
Averting disaster, it is about creating a brand new britain. Well bring you the latest election developments live from downing street throught the programme. Im anita mcveigh, the other stories this morning. Extinction rebellion win a high Court Challenge against the metropolitan police over a london wide protest ban. The trial of the man accused of murdering british backpacker Grace Millane begins in new zealand. Marks spencer says it is rapidly pushing ahead with its turnaround plan after news of a half year sales slump. In the sport, two time olympic champion nicola adams has retired from boxing over fears she could lose her sight. And coming up, british pop superstar dua lipa on her rapid rise to fame. Good morning and welcome to downing street. Campaigning in the general election is officially underway after the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, travelled to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the queen to tell her parliament has been dissolved. Later he will launch the conservativ
Are trickling out. For cvs, it was a beat and a raise. For barrett gold, they came in with a beat of . 15 and are increasing their dividend, we inl be speaking to the ceo about 10 minutes time on that. Time now for Global Exchange where will bring you the market moving news from all around the world. From johannesburg to paris and berlin and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with the top stories. We start of an johannesburg where bloomberg sat down with the South African president on the sidelines of the south African Investment conference. They discussed the state of their economy and the impact of u. S. China trade tensions. The trade wars that are taking place are not good for growth, they are not good for our economy, so we want the trade wars to come to an end. Cranny. Ng us is manus great interview. What were some of your big takeaways . Manus this is a president to i would say after 70 minutes of talking to them is a man who is not going to give everything but t