but first last week we had a shock profit warning from apple this week samsung electronics cut its revenues and profit full costs the south korean tech giant is the world's largest smartphone maker it's predicting a drop in fourth quarter profits because of weak of the month for its chips and the competitive phone markets this row brunell's gauge the mood at the consumer electronics show which kicked off this week in las vegas. four thousand companies from dozens of countries rolled out new products at the consumer electronics show l.g.'s new flexible t.v. screen made a big splash l.g. has an all ad t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from view into a box that is the first rolled on flexible screen that we've seen produced from a major television manufacturer the price tag around three thousand dollars this year there's an air of anxiety in these corridors tech stocks have been tumbling on

wall street apple made a surprise announcement it would miss sales targets blaming weak demand in china chinese telecommunications giant weiwei is here even though its chief financial officer is under house arrest in canada fighting american efforts to put her on trial for fraud you know major chinese tech executives are attending c.e.o.'s giant tech companies are displaying smart home devices face recognition systems and more big picture products and then there are guys like golly rows of who got tired of folding all this kid's laundry that we have piles of laundry always waiting to be filled who doesn't rose of the appliance called fold of eight will go on the market later this year priced at about a thousand dollars on the corky side c e s twenty nine hundred features wearables for pets smart phone control doggie doors and. a baffling proliferation of internet

connected intelligent toilets there are plenty of items here that are fascinating and some will prove to be big hits with consumers others frankly nobody really needs but there's no truly revolutionary technology on display here at c.s. in fact many analysts would argue that the last really big innovation was the smartphone introduced by apple nearly a dozen years ago the next big wave might be household devices with advanced artificial intelligence or a high this is one example elec you build as a digital companion for elderly people living alone i try to be extremely intelligent present in your day to day why companies are charging ahead with ai that will become deeply embedded in people's lives all with little regulation or public debate the impact of this technological evolution will change human

relationships and society in the coming decades for better or for worse these days the buzz in the motoring sector is all about self driving electric cars meanwhile traditional coming under pressure to stay profitable if they don't thousands of jobs around the world could be at stake this week ford said that its shifting and restructuring its entire operation in europe the revamp is likely to result in thousands of job losses the car manufacturer employs approximately fifty three thousand people in europe across fifteen plants britain's biggest carmaker. is also set to announce cuts now to seriously baka reports. it is the country's biggest carmaker employing more than forty thousand workers in the u.k. but jack your land rovers in trouble it's struggling to turn a profit reviving the luxury brands fortunes means cutting jobs for half thousand

are expected to go most are in management and marketing some production jobs may also go the company's been hit by a perfect storm of problems sales in china one of his biggest markets have slumped trade tensions with the u.s. have led to a fall in consumers making big purchases the companies also have been affected by a fall in global demand for diesel cars ninety percent of jaguar landrover is production. and a home there a big worry is over the u.k.'s competitiveness post breaks it the company says a bad deal could cost it one and a half billion dollars a year the government's promising to help those who have lost their jobs it is a brilliant skilled workforce it's a real asset to this country and whatever the terms of the announcement we will do everything that we can to make sure that they can find jobs that make use of their

they really valuable skills this isn't the first blow to land rovers workforce a company owned by india's tata motors already cut a thousand temporary contract workers at its plant near birmingham. it also recently announced it would move all production of the land rover discovery to a new plant in e.u. members employing three thousand people jack your land rover has been forced to streamline it is the pay for reality of uncertain times costing thousands of people their livelihoods staying with transportation illegal drone use hitting air departures briggs it worries about the global economy volatile fuel prices and an ongoing blockade here in the middle east challenges are already mounting up for the aviation industry and twenty nineteen the international air transport association nevertheless predicts that more of us will want to travel by air in the year ahead

. joining us now from london is peter morris peter is a chief economist at flight ascend consultancy peter good to have you with us on counting the cost before we talk about the outlook for the aviation sector in twenty nineteen let's let's deal with the question that everybody wants answered the cost of flights are they going to go up or down in twenty nineteen one of the key drivers behind that is what fuel prices are going to do and at the moment it looks like fuel prices are going to be lower in twenty nine thousand and twenty eighteen so other things being equal you'd expect some reduction in price what impact is briggs it if it whatever form breaks it eventually takes likely to have on the aviation sector within europe well i think i go back to what you're a star said to a parliamentary inquiry in twenty sixteen when they were posed the question what are the positive elements that occur from bracks it for transportation to or from the u.k. and they said bluntly there are none and i would reiterate that from an aviation

point of view in fact it's a complete disaster from the point of view of the regulatory front where the u.k. has been involved in the european common aviation area and now we would have to take rules from that rather than be part of the room making process we've got all the issues of that a decline in demand following the devaluation of the pound and ultimately air transport follows where the g.d.p. growth is and all the four car show that breaks it is going to have a significant impact on the u.k. g.d.p. which will mean less demand in and out our let's let's take a look at a in the stablished market the us on the outlook for for aviation in twenty nineteen there and a fast growing market china world that two ends of the spectrum really in terms of the kind of development phase you're seeing in china those something like ten to fifteen percent growth in traffic has occurred for the last decade. also and

inevitably that has meant that the various pressures of come on as regards infrastructure as regards the stability of the individual airlines but then that's consolidated to some degree and you've carried on seeing that desire to travel which particularly follows the g.d.p. at the other end of spectrum will lead shoes that happened in the us regarding security and the problems of now traveling short distances it stops of come easier to drive all videophone or whatever it is and that is dampened the gearing between g.d.p. growth and the actual growth in traffic and it's a mature market in other words and at the other end the spectrum you've got a dynamic growth market in china so you're almost seeing the whole spectrum net to some degree the question is what the next iteration in north america is because

north american a sentence given aviation to the world in terms of. a deregulated business models all be getting there first in the sheer size of that market so you are starting to see a tailoring offer growth of around four to five percent rather than the six to eight percent you're seeing generally around the world and none the less sure seeing half the profitability of the entire aviation business is coming out of north america with less than twenty percent of the traffic so it sort of brings home that that consolidating business model has been good for shareholders and i think we have to debate just how good it's been for consumers at the same time here in the middle east of course the blockade on cattle continues that not just cats are always put but all of the that the middle east carries what's the outlook and in twenty nineteen for middle east carriers were there needs to be

a resolution of the. political problems and obviously that isn't something the aviation business is going to do if it turns self but it's damage the the business of all the major players in the middle east and it's damaged their economies as well so to my mind looking from the outside there has to be some kind of resolution in order to facilitate the kind of levels of growth and middle east carriers saw before that did actually change the shape of aviation for the better it provided more customer choice for more destinations more origins around the world and at the moment you've got the problems that within a craft orders going through and the aircraft being delivered the question is where those carriers are going to put those a craft on the routes and it's becoming challenging while you have these political issues peter great to talk to you on cutting the cost many thanks dave for being with us thank you. finally this week greece is asking its citizens to contribute

some of their own money so that it can buy new warships but it may have to look abroad for funding. reports from athens. greece is thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limitless those i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes

in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money if you give us no i won't contribute the country has much bigger priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind the european union is a real union it will help with our defense of complicating matters to former defense ministers are now in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs that enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this crew in one thousand the george r ver of ball the name of its benefactor and helped greece defeat the ottoman empire. second time and

double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered well supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to update last revised upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is an east med very far from where it's used to prowling essentially becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the armed forces but fleet renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family. that's for this week if you'd like to get in touch with us about anything that you've seen you can

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out of everyone i'm coming from area and this is the world news from al jazeera turkey's foreign minister has hit back at president for threatening economic devastation if it attacks kurdish fighters in syria also anger on the streets of zimbabwe after the government doubled the price of fuel overnight and feeling the effects of a trade war china admits the u.s. dispute is taking a toll on the world's largest economy. so as you see britain's prime minister theresa may is asking m.p.'s to take a second look at the braggs deal struck between her government and the european union parliament all set to vote on that agreement on tuesday but she has warned them pays a rejection of the deal could pave the way for the breakup of the united kingdom many parliamentarians from her own conservative party has said that they will be

voting against. the for sure and clarifications we have received from the european union on the northern ireland protocol as a proud unionist i share the concerns of members who christmas it was clear that we needed to go further they undermined that if the backstop were nevertheless to be tricker that it would indeed apply temporarily. they committed that in such an event the e.u. would use since that negotiations on the future relationship could start immediately after the ukase publish the outcome of these further discussions with an exchange of letters between the u.k. government and the presidents of the european commission and european council. the letter from earth. and further that is there for his judgment that the current draft withdrawal agreement now it has so i say to members on all sides of this house whatever you may have previously concluded over these next twenty four hours give this deal a second look no it is not perfect and yes it is

a compromise but when the history books are written people will look at the decision. people. people will look at the decision of this house tomorrow and ours did we deliver on the country's vote to leave the european union. did we safeguard our economy our security and our you. or did we let the british people down. i say we should deliver for the british people and get on with building a brighter future for our country by backing this deal tomorrow and i commend this statement to the house. apologies took us a little longer to get to that clip than we wanted but we've got lawrence lee with us now outside the houses of parliament in london laurence does she have any chance of winning it's all well and good saying give the deal another look it could well

be that everyone's already made up their minds. well you know when when m.p. start laughing at their own prime minister things things don't look particularly fantastic. you know when when people write the history books and you can't finish a sentence because they will start cheering her you know that that what she's trying to do if it simply is to say look. you know you might not like this but if the alternative she used to say no deals better than a bad deal now she's saying her deal is not great but it's better than no deal so she's in a complete about turn on that so she's similar heinously trying to say that no deal would be really really dangerous which is what a lot of parliament thinks a majority of parliament spends most of business things as well so rule out no deal which is a default position if they can't agree on a thing else but she's also trying to say rule out don't not leaving as well which is increasingly likely and i've said for months that it could easily happen because

she was she says that that's a democratic betrayal of the people and therefore there isn't anything left but to vote for my deal. in saying have another look what she's it effectively saying is you know you've got to try to basically take a deep breath swallow any prejudices you might have against it and supporter in the interests of trying to bring this deeply divided house the house of commons back together again but it doesn't look like she's going to get anywhere and only a few m.p.'s over the last few days said grudgingly well ok we don't like him but we will support him because he's better than the alternatives as it stands at the moment all the people who spend their time here and phone m.p.'s every single day seem to be suggesting that she'll lose the vote by possibly a hundred and a hundred or so and if that happens then she's got to come up with a plan b. because they've already decided that she got three days to say what she'll do

instead and that's really where the next question arises so there is no plan b. at the public plan. she doesn't want to say that there's a plan b. because if she does say there's a plan b. it automatically implies that she accepts that she's going to lose but when she does loose the options clearly she got to go back to the european union yet again and. sorry about this decision about that i like a lot you know about another christmas present. although she's got to come up with something else and. regardless of the fact that m.p.'s keep saying. that we we've got to leave here we've got to leave because if we don't leave then. either it's a democratic betrayal and it will unleash the forces of fascism in britain all the people will never vote for politicians again whatever they say may or may not be true so so she's going to have to think about something else and the first thing that is like is i have been is in the green you meant to extend article fifteen the

withdrawal agreements and say ok we can leave in march you know once it's a while and we'll try to think about maybe leaving in july instead of try and finish the way of giving us another couple of months to sort of to figure out something else but the cult to that it's because parliament is still completely entrenched and they going to have to accept. what are at the moment entirely unpalatable things like having another referendum bill calling a general election for not leaving until you know for all the talk that you hear all the time here about those things are never going to happen they might have to happen because if you know if you rule out everything else then what you've got left is actually what you're going to get and so whatever they say at the moment you can say with a massive massive pinch of salt because the parliament has but is running the show now not the government and parliament doesn't like it still but watch what she has to say about things thank you for now laurence lane thank you side the houses of

parliament in westminster inside the building debate goes on and actually just as lawrence was talking you might have seen fairy animated very very animated discussions and probably being kind by using the word animated there is so much riding on this is lawrence's tolleson this debate will carry on this monday afternoon evening in london and then the vote happens tomorrow full coverage of course on al-jazeera. two of the news in turkey has responded to president donald trump's threats that the u.s. will quote devastate the turkish economy if its forces attack kurdish fighters in northern syria took his foreign minister says nothing would be achieved by threatening his country. when the. we can see the difficult situation that mr trump is in now there are serious pressure on him and he took the decision of withdrawing however the security divisions are putting constant pressure to stop and we know that the latest tweet is a domestic policy message these. are important we have said several times that we

are not going to be afraid of any threats and will not bow down to it nothing can be achieved by threatening turkey economically meanwhile our career has deployed troops tanks and heavy military equipment in antakya along its southern border with syria the government sees the kurdish y p g fund is there as an extension of the p.k. k. which it has outlawed meanwhile on the other side of the turkish border we're talking about man big the syrian government has sent forces there to support the kurdish finances more now from mohammed. near the turkish syrian border. the continued wrongdoing between washington and uncut of course is a huge boost for the fortunes of president bashar al assad whose forces are currently patrolling on the outskirts of mumbles this gives him a full room in a territory controlled by the cads which is estimated to be about a third of the city and territory that right now in talks that's the cards on the

bashar assad regime and kurdish the need is in syria said to have appealed to egypt to mediate what they're calling men in full talks between them and the city an administration of course for now they seem to have abundant brimble the us with getting tomas a region which they would govern in north and syria and settled for what they're calling for protection against the technician offensive turkey insists it will not be deterred by the noises coming from a washington on but it's just a matter of time before they embark on the offensive to what they're saying clear. the city off mum beach off s. kurdish why p.g. fighters who they say are an extension of p.k. k. which is recognized as a terrorist organization in the last offensive gets under way turkey would not be

differentiating between remnants of ice and fighters and the city and kurds who are fighting them something out of my three vos some of the gains made in the fight against eyesore. the top u.s. diplomat is now in oman and the final leg of his middle east tour earlier monday secretary held talks with saudi leaders in riyadh where they agreed on the need to find a solution over the conflict in yemen and to stick to the cease fire deal more details with the. u.s. secretary of state mike bump with saudi leaders in riyadh a crucial stopover in his middle east toward that they have agreed on the need for a continued deescalation in yemen and the implementation of the recent agreements signed in sweden saudi arabia faces bounty and international pressure to and the nearly four year old war in yemen another important issue hanging over the visit

is the murder of saudi journalist. or expectations have been clear from early on. every single person who has responsibility for the murder of democracy needs to be held accountable. and the crown prince i spoke about this with king salmon as well. they both acknowledged that the accountability needed to take place it was killed in a toll inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the findings of the saudi prosecutor were dismissed by the turkish government and world leaders as insufficient on sunday pompei or was in qatar where he called on gulf countries to and that dispute the worst political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council america's top diplomat also visited jordan behind the u.a.e.

egypt and our man after canceling a visit to kuwait to attend a family funeral emir has played a crucial role in trying to.