his company's products for the country's 5 g. infrastructure. stuck in the middle of serbia vows to boost economic ties with russia while it also strives to become part of the e.u. . this is business as usual on the w. as in the berlin wall come and we start in europe after 8 years at the helm of the e.c.b. maria druggy held his final policy meeting his famous 2012 statement whatever it takes to preserve the euro at the height of the county's own financial crisis will go down in history fall as successes leaves behind a divided governing council last month a 3rd of its members oppose his move to restart a quantity of easing printing money to buy bonds from governments and companies as a way of stabilizing the euro zone. his final press conference that ended just minutes ago he was asked by a reporter what kind of advice he has for his successor christine lagarde is what
he had to say. no advice is the she knows perfectly well what she has to do and by the way she has a long period of time ahead you know we should have to form their own view to get it we will go in council about what to do but the stop here really. in a frank 1st who is listening to this full statement he leaves an empty arsenal there for his successor christine lagarde kemi specter the change of direction from. christine lagarde and all of her public statements so far has sort of mirrored druggies policy she said this sort of highly accommodative policy is warranted if you look at the european economy at the same time there are sort of these of these bigger questions of what 'd does christine legarde have at her disposal now you
know mario draghi has really taken monetary policy to the edge of what's possible and there are definite questions about that there are a lot of discussions about things like raising the limit of bonds that. the e.c.b. could by cutting rates even lower but even in the press conference today and he was sort of discussing how there's a diminishing return as you get lower and lower and policy here she is also going to focus much like druggy has on the capacity for fiscal easing or for fiscal policy and countries like germany we've heard her speak about that many times. over there in fund food in the far from national circle circles what's the overall verdict about the drug used to. good b.c.b. books it's certainly a mixed mixed assessment here as you sort of mentioned he's widely credited with saving the euro for sort of bringing the european project back from the thing brink of collapse he's mentioned making creating 11000000 jobs over the course of these 8
years of the same time has has he met his mandate i think most people would agree no the e.c.b. still has not been able to reach 2 percent inflation there's a lot of concern about the negative side effects of of these policies as well shows the dilemma thank you very much. the eurasian economic union an economic bloc led by russia is set to sign a free trade agreement with serbia tomorrow it aims to streamline and boost trade the a e e u is an economic union that cunt counts 5 members russia belarus kazakhstan kurdistan and armenia founded in 2015 of the last for the free movement of goods capital labor and some services serbia as high opes for the new deal that guarantees tariff free access for over 99 percent of its exports to that bloc
opening up a market of around $182000000.00 customers but the balkan nation is also waiting to join the e.u. if that happens russell says serbia will have to drop any prior commitments with the a e.u. . i love serbia the hash tag that the balkan country has chosen as an advertising slogan and it hopes foreign investors will say the same president alexander showed up here for a contract signing ceremony as german companies agreed to plough 300000000 euros into new factories in the country serbia is rolling out the red carpet for firms that create jobs. it went very fast was very well coordinated and left a thorough professional impression that the kind of environment investors are looking for. serbian pharmaceuticals company haymow farm which belongs to the german shadow group produces around $200.00 different medications that are mostly
shipped to the e.u. because there are practically no customs or tariff barriers on goods made in serbia delivery doesn't pose any problems still german companies would like to see serbia's accession to e.u. membership done and dusted for once is reached it's just that it's important to us but it goes through the accession process especially when it comes to reforming the judiciary and bureaucracy in general that's important for companies in terms of both implementation and legal security to be to you know the most graphic design at all. but the negotiations on the e.u. membership for serbia have stalled one big hurdle is a difference of opinion between the e.u. and serbia on the status of kosovo. i don't care whether we're in europe or north. like i said there are some benefits for example for travel and such maybe even just there. it's also about corruption the rule of law and everything else
like that that doesn't work here the justice system press freedom it all needs to change if we want to be a member of the e.u. . while negotiations drag serbia is turning to other potential partners and looking to close a free trade agreement with the russian dominated eurasian economic union business consultant draggle bragg thinks his country's agriculture and construction sectors would benefit from closer ties with the e.u. . the people pro-government date being now in these preparations phase for me you may be this can be useful for part of the serbian corner. currently however serbia still exports nearly 10 times more goods to the european union than it does to your asian economic union markets say deals that might alienate the e.u.
are a tricky balancing act. debate in germany right now which companies will be allowed to develop the country's 5 g. networks the latest high speed mobile technology the german government has not excluded huawei from the outset unlike australia and of the united states the chinese telecom corporation could open the daughters financial and cyber sabotage concerns are growing in germany to 5 g. is set to change our infrastructure our economy and daily lives as we know. self driving cars robots delivering packages large machine parks linked without cables 5 g. will make all this possible the high speed network is still being developed but once up and running it will shape everything our daily lives our future all that we do it security is therefore a hot topic and can that be guaranteed with chinese telecoms corporation while way
. that citizens saw effectively nothing has changed we are still not going to exclude any company from the outset but we are drawing up a catalog of detailed tight security restrictions for the on an oath that means that the german ministry for id security will conduct checks on key components of the 5 g. network providers themselves however could merely be required to submit proof of trustworthiness that's enough for the german government but not for security officials and there's concern among politicians now to their fiesta and the worst case scenario would be the network being switched off from outside the country by a foreign state actor like china for example and on top of that we make ourselves nigh able to blackmail in trading situations simply because a state actor has the possibility of halting our systems as good of god the it's not about the company it's about the influence the state in this case the chinese state has on the company the legal pressure on it whether that company likes it or
not. just. china's reputation as a north or a tarion nation without a democratic judicial system makes trust generally a complex issue should a chinese company be part of building the network of the future australia new zealand and the us say no but while waiting ology has long been a feature of german communications networks both because it's technologically advanced and because it's relatively cheap there are 2 european alternatives nokia and ericsson than via different if we say that we need technological autonomy in europe and this is the time to start and especially as we already have 2 options the mansions i had with so many questions still unanswered well way is likely to overshadow the german chinese trade relationship for some time to come. lawyers for foreman is on chairman collins go on want of financial misconduct
charges against him to be dismissed in a court filing in tokyo they argue that the case against him is the product of unlawful collusion between prosecutors and executives with an axe to grind they say the brazilian businessman who is currently on bail awaiting trial is not receiving a fair hearing. it's the latest salvo of a man who has gone from legendary auto boss to accused criminal carlists go on now said to be too weak to appear before the media set his lawyer to deliver the bombshell claim that he's the victim of a set up. this case have briquet did nissan was concerned that if go on continue to stay with the company renault would take over a nissan the company wanted to somehow alst him from this they wanted to fabricate a case. the allegation now laid out in full is that going was targeted to protect
a key japanese firm from foreign hands. if dismissed by the court go in could get face years in prison for financial and that's all meant. it's a far cry from golan stays mixing with president as the head of an international car lines between renault nissan and mitsubishi. nissan has so far declined to comment. on that said for me and the business team yeah berlin for more business news background story is check out the w dot com slash business our website also. social. order. has a quick look at global markets at the. euro
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up the donald trump trial has wrapped up for today. it was always intended to be a shorter day because of passover, they are religious holiday, but one of the jurors has an emergency dental appointment. it is done and dusted, we've heard the opening arguments for both sides of the prosecution and the defence, this is all of course donald trump's hush money trial, former us president faces 3a counts of business fraud. these are pictures from him inside the court this morning. the scheme, the alleged scheme is to pay off pawn star stormy daniels to make sure an account of his alleged extramarital sexual encounter with her did not get published on the eve of the 2016 president election. we saw those pictures there, but we do not have a video feed, live video feed or the cameras inside the courtroom itself. we thought we would run through some of the main players and that court. here's meghan 0wen.
accepted his regulation, which says it believes will allow all parties to move forward. i want to take your light of the house of commons because we are keeping across the debate, a significant day in westminster. the prime minister rishi sunak�*s plan, the flights to take up in 12 weeks. that is what he said earlier today. the legislation has to past here first, the house of commons, and the house of lords. they are debating now. there are two amendments up upfor up for consideration by mps. there is a process which basically goes back and forth between the house of commons, the lower chamber and the upper chamber of the house of lords. rishi sunak saying he would like it done and dusted today, even if it means a late day and night's work.
because he's gotten a lot of momentum donors and that the small donors, somebody giving 20, 40, 40, $50 to his campaign. because those are voters. so i'm going to look and see what to come on with the momentum, with donations. >> momentum is such an important, word kurt. let's talk about what minted means for the other candidates, other than trump. and we'll look at that race iowa and. polling haley, she's got that momentum right now. she searched past desantis. he's now -- she is now in second place. if ron desantis he does not finish second, do you see him dropping out of this race? apparently he's already planted to go to hell's state of south carolina, not new hampshire. but is there a path for for him in any capacity, nor but no one, i think it's done and dusted with floor donald trump, but for a second place finish that could perhaps get him a vice presidential nomination or a
to go to haley's state of south carolina, not new hampshire. but is there a path for for him in any capacity, nor but no one, i think it's done and dusted with floor donald trump, but for a second place finish that could perhaps get him a vice presidential nomination or a cabinet position? >> i don't see a scenario after all the vitriol we've seen donald trump specifically aim at ron desantis, he would actually select desantis to be on a ticket with him. we know that trump above all else thinks, 100% loyalty, he views desantis running as a disloyal act. either there's a path for desantis. that's what i could see him staying in at longer than he should. because after this, there was really nothing left for him. it's going to be one way or the other, four years of just being the florida governor, which clearly he doesn't really have a whole lot of interest and because he spent the last year running for president of the united states. he's not going to finish in the top two in iowa, he's not going to finish in the top two in new hampshire. he's going to bypass new hampshire and go to south carolina.
trying to improve in 2024. two games into a comeback, he's already hitting form. he may not always be on time, but the rest to the try and catch him. joe lynskey, bbc news. records were set at the test match in cape town between south africa and india, but not great if you're fan of the format going the distance. this one resulted in the shortest test to produce a winner, in the history of the game. it was all done and dusted injust 6a2 balls, as dan ogunshakin reports. some brief calm after yesterday's storm. after 23 wickets fell on day one, questions were being asked of the newlands pitch and whether south africa could post a competitive total second time round. just six balls in, we had an answer. david beddingham undone byjasprit bumrah, and soon after, kyle verreyne's aggression seemingly hastened the proteas demise. his reaction spoke volumes. but amidst the chaos, some calm, some resistance.
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traditional catholic as potential domestic terrorists. i know you don't speak for the fbi, nor would i expect that. i want to ask this as people come from two different sides, curiously, why would wray redact this? we're told by "wall street journal" information specific to ongoing criminal investigation. number two, if you are fbi director going before congress, you know what is redacted, why say this is a single office when you know that is simply not true? >> jessica: i imagine and he did disown the memo, this wasn't something he was standing by and he said when it came to his attention, it was pushed back on. i don't think he had expectation redacted version come out and he thought it was done and dusted. it is right to continue the conversation if it was more widespread in l.a. and portland
on the harry kane story? that is exactly where we will pick things up. that potential transfer. a deal has been agreed in principle for bayern munich to sign the captain. but it is now his call to make. he has a year left. 30 came in a campaign where spurs finished eight, meaning they missed out on european football. it's not all done and dusted. it is now up for harry kane to decide. he's been in this club since 200a. he's been in this club since 200a. he said many times, he wants to win trophies. he's second in the