sufficient wealth in europe in the future. you know. michel. of the business friendly free democrats and greece he wants germany to step up involvement domestically and at the european level. to encourage domestic investment you know how we must improve the brain work for tax law review a law for motivation for employees set up sharon s program which is always on top of that i would like to see a digital equivalent of the air bus project that i mean an industrial political initiative for the european digital market with cooperation based on the airbus model. that is european cooperation that company level while china knows what it wants in germany and europe have yet to forge a clear strategy. choices says it s set to invest around half a billion dollars in write hailing service as part of
a fifty helps fight another day you just went through with china picking up an automotive component make-a gramma. it s specializes in seats for trucks and buses along with head and arm rest but very an auto parts maker gama is now firmly in chinese hands the jobs here are reportedly safe and the company is to remain on the frankfurt stock exchange it s being touted as a successful example of a chinese takeover chinese investments in europe have risen dramatically in the past few decades from one hundred four million euros in two thousand to around thirty billion and twenty seventeen on the face of it a welcome development but some investments are state controlled. all private funding from china is really private at the end of the day and that means that chinese influence may be endangering parts of the german economy that are significant for germany s future development and its high technology. and the
with no trouble and now this talk about legalizing cannabis cultivation tell us how that came about. it s not a new idea in lebanon i mean i ve talked to some farmers i ve talked to various farmers and some of them have been saying so that they ve been talking to their local officials about this for over twenty years and to be around the same time that lebanon actually criminalized the growing of cannabis but it became recent now because at the beginning of the year the lebanese government commissioned mckinsey the global consulting company to come up with proposals to boost lebanon s cash strapped economy and this was one of the proposals that they came up with how far could it go in fact to improve the economic situation had they given some sort of estimate or indication i don t think the kids even estimate but the caretaker economy minister of lebanon last gave an estimated one of our own one billion u.s. dollars that could come into the economy if this were to be legalized of cours
hate speech on its platform in myanmar the company has banned a number of accounts including those of government officials accused of violating the platforms guidelines it comes on the heels of a united nations report sharply criticizing facebook for its failure to tackle hate speech and misinformation which it says incite violence against the rohingya people of media editor carl last man who is join. here in the studio who has been following this story very closely welcome to you karl so strong words from the united nations there what exactly has facebook done in response i mean very strong words and actually this is really just confirming what many experts been saying for months about what is going on there that facebook just essentially did nothing to stop the spread of hate speech in myanmar and you know that led to real world violence against the rogue injured people so yeah yesterday facebook finally did take some action and here s what they did they explained what they did in th
ending up in fisherman s nets. at the beginning it was a talent available to continue to pack things but we were able to demonstrate over time you know over the months that it is possible to carry on your own business and activities without it and therefore change of behavior that really. that just means that people have had to do. that has been positive. violators face a fine of thirty two thousand euros or up to four years in prison so far nobody has been jailed but around a hundred people have been fined. one of the most vocal critics of the ban is the kenya association of manufacturers chairman one hundred good guys the head of a company that makes product labels for the african market he says one hundred seventy companies producing plastic has shut down triggering the loss of sixty thousand jobs the timeframe given for those of six months was too short to make