official and people here see that too and it's amazing that at the end of the week the dax for example is clearly higher than at the beginning but to put it into perspective how damaging the mood or how damaged the mood is at the moment the levels here but on wall street as well are much lower than at the beginning of the year will events in frankfurt thank you very much. now everybody is talking about donald trump's tariffs and the trade war but there are examples for growing economic corporations between the u.s. and the e.u. and germany in particular one such example is the german american skills initiative which is trying to introduce germany's well established system of the so-called you education to the united states that combines classroom learning with hands on the occasional training three years ago the german american charges of com a start of the cooperation with the u.s. and german governments and as our correspondent phenomena reports from the southern us state of georgia the initiative is beginning to bear fruit. it's seven in the