a difficult moment bernhard mata said in a year and press conference that sales and employment in the german car industry will continue to fall in 2020 he said slowing global sales massive technology change in a turbulent trade environment we're all rocking the sector. and i had a chance to talk to madison after the event and i asked him if the auto industry faced an existential challenge. no it's an existential. challenge and it's different to what we have seen in the past when we invented new innovations and board to market now it's really a structural change in the whole industry and all 3 challenges together at the same time and that makes it really a big management challenge and we are facing that and we are going to make it looking at those challenges this of course requires a lot of investment and a lot of risk you've asked the government for a lot of help managing that risk does your industry right now have the kind of