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stephen mcdonell, bbc news, shanghai. the online travel reservation platform booking.com 413 million euros for abusing its dominant market position over the last 5 years. it said the platform had imposed unfair conditions on hotels, such as banning them from offering lower prices on their own websites and offering discounts to its own customers. without consulting the hotels beforehand. booking.com says it intends to appeal the decision. stay tuned. israeli far—right protesters, have broken into an army base, in a show of support for soldiers accused of abusing a palestinian detainee. large crowds gathered outside the compound in southern israel, after police entered it to detain the reservists, who are now subject to an official investigation. 0thers then broke into the base where the soldiers were taken to be questioned. israeli media reports suggest the palestinian prisoner had been sexually assaulted by the reservists. israel denies allegations by human rights groups that suspected hamas fighters suffer systematic abu
stephen mcdonell, bbc news, shanghai. the online travel reservation platform booking.com 413 million euros for abusing its dominant market position over the last 5 years. it said the platform had imposed unfair conditions on hotels, such as banning them from offering lower prices on their own websites and offering discounts to its own customers. without consulting the hotels beforehand. booking.com says it intends to appeal the decision. stay tuned. israeli far—right protesters, have broken...
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the bbc�*s china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. week's big political meeting here in beijing will involve some sort of major announcements around the lines of what plans the government has to turn around the chinese economy. and the reason for this is precedent. the central committee, the full central committee, with its hundreds of delegates over a five year term, meets roughly seven times. the third of these meetings, known as the third plenum, has often involved major announcements of significant changes to policy, and the thinking is this time round, it could be the same because the word modernisation was included in the blurb introducing the meeting. it's thought that we could see an even greater push from the central government to drive funds into the high tech industries, which are really taking off here, like solar power, like electric vehicles. but the question is, even if this was to work, would a newly modernised chinese economy necessarily employ enough people, give wages enough of a boost to drive up household consumpt
the bbc�*s china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. week's big political meeting here in beijing will involve some sort of major announcements around the lines of what plans the government has to turn around the chinese economy. and the reason for this is precedent. the central committee, the full central committee, with its hundreds of delegates over a five year term, meets roughly seven times. the third of these meetings, known as the third plenum, has often involved major...
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but that has also led to fierce competition, as our china correspondent stephen mcdonell finds out.specialist cafes. the government here says there are over 8000 cafes in this city. in this street, over a stretch ofjust100 metres or couple of hundred — 18 cafes. everyone of them has lots of customers. translation: school students are bein: translation: school students are being influenced _ translation: school students are being influenced by - translation: school students are being influenced by their. are being influenced by their parents and drinking coffee. some grannies send their kids to school and pop in for a copy. to school and pop in for a co . ., ., , to school and pop in for a co. ., ,, to school and pop in for a co. ., ., ,~ , copy. how many cups a people drinking? — copy. how many cups a people drinking? translation: - copy. how many cups a people - drinking? translation: shanghai has lona drinking? translation: shanghai has long been _ drinking? translation: shanghai has long been an _ drinking? translation: shanghai has long been an international- has long been an in
but that has also led to fierce competition, as our china correspondent stephen mcdonell finds out.specialist cafes. the government here says there are over 8000 cafes in this city. in this street, over a stretch ofjust100 metres or couple of hundred — 18 cafes. everyone of them has lots of customers. translation: school students are bein: translation: school students are being influenced _ translation: school students are being influenced by - translation: school students are being...
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mcdonell gave us this update from beijing.t hit taiwan, hit the philippines. to give you an idea of the power of this storm, major commercial ships have been sunk, including an oil tanker off the coast of manila. they are still searching for missing crew. some of those sadly are presumed dead. now, the good news is that after the storm hit mainland china it�*s been downgraded. however, hundreds of thousands of people have been moved to safer areas. transport services are still down in south—eastern china, including trains, including planes. and the concerns are that this storm, albeit a downgraded one, is going to still push heavy rain into the middle of china and the north. the reason people are worried about this is that a typhoon just like this last year caused flooding in the north of the country and as far away as the north—east of china, a famous rice crop was completely destroyed following the rains that caused flooding after a typhoon. and so while it may have been downgraded, while the winds may have eased off a bit,
mcdonell gave us this update from beijing.t hit taiwan, hit the philippines. to give you an idea of the power of this storm, major commercial ships have been sunk, including an oil tanker off the coast of manila. they are still searching for missing crew. some of those sadly are presumed dead. now, the good news is that after the storm hit mainland china it�*s been downgraded. however, hundreds of thousands of people have been moved to safer areas. transport services are still down in...
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our china correspondent stephen mcdonell has been finding out why.means major chains, but in shanghai, it's different. there's been an explosion of small specialist cafes. the government here says there are over 8,000 cafes in this city. in this street, over a stretch ofjust 100 metres or couple of hundred metres — 18 cafes. every one of them has lots of customers. translation: in shanghai, school students are being i influenced by their parents and drinking coffee. some grannies send their kids to school and then also pop in for a copy. so, how many cups a people drinking? translation: shanghai has long been _ an international trading city. we started drinking coffee a long time ago. smaller cities would also gradually getting different types of cafes. some cafes here are run by people with disabilities. this one, with visually impaired staff, has a a unique way of handling out the coffees. you order here and they pass the coffees through the window. there it is. laughter yet, with this many outlets, the competition is fierce. what advice would your
our china correspondent stephen mcdonell has been finding out why.means major chains, but in shanghai, it's different. there's been an explosion of small specialist cafes. the government here says there are over 8,000 cafes in this city. in this street, over a stretch ofjust 100 metres or couple of hundred metres — 18 cafes. every one of them has lots of customers. translation: in shanghai, school students are being i influenced by their parents and drinking coffee. some grannies send their...