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Cheaper and better electric cars within 3 years thanks to a more efficient battery technology. And to devastating wildfires along the west coast threaten this years wine harvest. Hello im monica jones and this is your business good to have you with us tensions between china and taiwan heating up china has stepped up military activities while taiwan demands china back off of the saber rattling has economic implications taiwan is a major source of computer chips for the global economy. The world would grind to a halt without taiwans computer chips or inside t. V. Smart phones computers the globes producers rely on the small island Electronic Component supplies most deliveries go to china which regards taiwan as a breakaway province under its one china policy but recently tensions in taiwan. It had reached heights not seen in years. On tuesday the islands president saying when inspected an air force base a clear message addressed to beijing. Was about marriage we have to deal with the pro
Innovations in taiwan and germany that could help us through the crisis. Moving on this is a business on robots in better than welcome to the Program Google is warning outside developers to stop circumventing its Payment System and has given dont just one year to comply among the companies in its crosshairs on netflix and spotify both of them have disputed or attempted working around payments on google devices which show a 30 Percent Commission from the tech giant frustration over commissions levied alike by google and apple has been growing among about affairs in recent years. And im joined in the studio by businesses Stephen Beardsley welcome to the program so whats behind this from google. So basically google is saying that it wants to clarify its rules that basically it hasnt been forcing these rules are already been set up its very nice way of saying all right its time for us to start doing this its time for you to start listening and really what it comes down to is as you mention
International law it belongs to azerbaijan. Azerbaijani officials have imposed martial law and curfews the government in baku blames its neighbor for the new escalation. Its no secret that the 1st shot was also carried out by the armenian military. Many stone arch. Khaki has promised to back either by john there were joint military exercises in july which had to now have enough. Knowledge to touch one to destroy the armenians and armenia thats clear story a media is hoping for Russian Support for moscow and the e. U. Have called for an end to the fighting. Are going to turn out to rome and then go from the Russian Department for more on this settlement this is a long running conflict were talking here for decades a given how serious is this latest flare up and what makes it so intractable. Well it is very serious it is already a limited war and it could grow into something bigger well we are still in not in a position to to establish what went wrong on the sunday as the fighting erupte
President s financial responsibilities. Like so welcome now robert associate to professor in the department of sociology at Lancaster University and the editor of the book a Trump Presidency journalism and democracy good of you to join us this is obviously undeniably a scoop for the new yorker at times but just how damaging really is it for President Trump especially the image that he tries to project that of a very successful businessman do you think he can reset the narrative and turn this around in his favor. Well it certainly is going to be a talking point from the democrats that hes going to have to deal with so its going to be more than a mile annoyance for him but for the true Trump Supporters it makes you wonder how much its going to take for them to jump ship i mean these are these are folks who already dont like to pay taxes and theres a joke that you think you can know are going to happen here taxes and death so you know for them if donald trump can get away without paying t