but she has drawn criticism from human rights groups who say she is burying her head in the sand. hurricane maria has devastated the small caribbean island of domini gun is now sweeping towards puerto rico and the virgin islands already devastated by hurricane. ryanair is grounding thousands of flights and travelers are not happy monica will have the details coming right up and discuss. she's long been a symbol of hope in syria. i try to help people. i'm sorry does she

stand for change. or the false facade of her husband's most charming thank. you believes in what the syrian regime is doing and believes in those who say. projection that that they are saving syria was my last time the beautiful face of the dictatorship starting october first on d w. ryanair cancels thousands of flights between now and october the twenty eight's the airline says the drastic move is necessary to improve punctuality but customers suspect other motives. also coming up greek authorities turn to new methods to

collect taxes. on the trouble with bricks it fishermen on both sides of the channel want to get their fish cake and eat it too. welcome to d.w. business it looks like toys r us has just become toys are bust the largest u.s. toy store chain filed for bankruptcy protection on monday toys r us has taken a beating from competition with online shopping and to discount chains the filing is among the largest ever by a speciality retailer and casts doubt over the future of the company's nearly one thousand six hundred stores and sixty four thousand employees it comes just as toys r us is preparing for the holiday shopping season which accounts for the bulk of its sales. a mix trading across europe on tuesday in the wake of another strong rally on wall street the world's equity markets are waiting for wednesday's rate

decision from the u.s. federal reserve expecting good news both the dow jones industrial average and the s. and p. five hundred ended in record territory in japan the nikkei also ended tuesday on a record two year high a week again under strong american markets are considered positive signs for japanese exporters. lots of positive for europe's largest airline but passenger numbers has issued a full list of cancellations thousands of flights are affected between now and the end of october the airline c.e.o. says they messed up the pilot's vacation itineraries but not everyone is buying that around forty to fifty flights are said to be canceled daily that's a total of around two thousand flights by the end of october ryanair canceled the flights to cope with pilot shortages and to improve its punctuality record we can

either run the operation with a fifty five sixty percent punctuality we far more flight through options inevitably cancellations and huge pastor dissatisfaction close to thirty five or forty percent of our customer base or we do what i thought last friday was the sensible thing we need to take out about fifty flights a day for the next six weeks while we have the screwy issue two thousand cancelled flights that means hundreds of thousands of angry customers but that didn't seem to bother ryanair it's not fair for the people that have already there. everything because unlike base it's not what really that is right. what about the formula but no idea the budget carrier is bracing itself for a bill of damages totaling twenty million euros but analysts are doubtful that improving the punctuality record is the real reason for the cancelled flights rather ryanair could be aiming to grab as many of the landing slots still occupied

by the now bankrupt air berlin if air berlin stops operations those coveted slots would be auctioned off but only airlines with a sufficient number of free planes for the additional flights would be eligible to bid. greece is profiting from the strained relations between brussels and i'm corrupt many european holiday makers don't feel safe in turkey anymore and opt for greece instead as a result the greek tourism industry is booming but strangely enough very little of the revenue ends up as tax in states hoffa's greek authorities want to change that . on the greek island of santa rini a perfect summer is coming to a close perfect for a hotel is restaurants and store owners because tourist numbers have broken all records. over thirty million visitors in all of greece have boosted the economy which is experienced two quarters in a row of economic growth the greeks are profiting from vacationers fears of the

political situation in turkey. but while the greek tourist industry is booming and the cash registers are ringing very little of it reaches tax coffers so to help the businesses remember to pay their taxes the national revenue agency has begun to read those businesses. tax audits are happening everywhere this year tax investigators check the books and sometimes they shut the business down immediately if they decide to close you down during the busy season you are in a lot of trouble. this is what it looks like after investigators have been there it says suspended due to tax violations on the barrier tape not the best advertising for shop but tax officials have good reason for not wanting to show their faces on t.v. they're not loved on the little island where everyone knows everyone else. it's not

a problem for me the tax investigators are doing their job and i'm doing mine if they audit you when you've broken the law then you have to pay the consequences on a couple of. not all tax evaders see it that way and that's why the tax officials would rather conduct business in safety protected by steel bars when working on the streets people sometimes get violent or threaten them with bodily harm. violent taxpayers face. more severe measures actually they're not. they're not evading that they're not they're not winning something we'll gaining something out of it. but most of the sins are just misdemeanors food or drinks without the required receipt or pocketing the value added tax greece is the country of the fucking lucky or the envelope full of cash greeks don't find tax evasion to be that serious after all they have centuries of tradition hiding their drachmas from the tax man while their country was part of the detested ottoman empire. with

breaks the talks not making any real progress many parts of business are left wondering what's in store for them including fishermen those in the e.u. want to access to english waters where they make tough the income those in britain would prefer to limit the competition but as so often things are not that simple. at the center of the debate is the english channel a rich fishing ground for british and european boats alike french crews like this one say loss of access would be devastating i know it was a dossier of yours on the consequences over one year these waters represent sixty to seventy percent of our fishing sites so the boat in the crew would see a loss of income going on you want to but the only point is that. they wouldn't be alone limited access would affect belgian spanish and dutch cruise. fishermen in the u.k. are more open to the idea many feel that the u.s.

never given them a proper quota under its common fisheries policy brags that they hope might change that. we all think that a fishing it's all about access so we hope for better access to water so that means restricting access of e.u. vessels into the u.k. or in having some access ourselves to the waters there's a snag though british fishermen so much of their catch to europe u.k. fishing exports to france totaled five hundred seven million euros in two thousand and fifteen french exports to the u.k. came to less than a quarter of that amount so that means leverage for even a go she enters hoping to keep access open european fisherman are hopeful negotiations are expected to begin soon. numerous european countries are complaining that china is of further shielding its market from foreign companies there warning that tightening of regulations could shut all foreign companies including food producers that's according to the european chamber of commerce in beijing the companies are citing

a contradiction while state and party chief eugene ping is presented as the poster child for international free trade his government is doing everything it can to make the hurdles for foreign companies higher than ever. here in europe poland has gone through an economic boom in recent years the country ranks among the top barry produces in europe plenty of work especially during the harvest season but it's not being done by poles. in what we see in north eastern poland we're off to the blueberry harvest the trailer is full everyone here is from ukraine and almost all of them are women seven hundred ukrainians work here at harvest time. if you go to at a time please. about one million ukrainians work in poland like tanya she has a permit that allows her to work in the e.u. country. there are jobs in ukraine but they just don't pay it's much better in

poland. they're paid by the box of blueberries there tanya earns on average fifty euros a day average wages in ukraine are only around two hundred euros a month for the same work almost all of those i spoke to have left children at home . has two daughters ten and six years old. i miss them a lot they're still little and it pains my heart but what should i do. if you mean how much more do you earn here. ten times as much. in times as much the polish economy has been booming for years poland needs workers not least because some two million poles have left the. country since i joined the ukrainians fill the gaps in construction in households and in the fields. it's the ukrainians who work here our people referred to germany. poland is one of the main exporting

countries for blueberries thanks to the ukrainian workers about eighty tons a day are sent to the rest of europe. in the evening the harvest workers quarters are in a small ukrainian colony. tanya and four friends live in this room they work ten hours a day six days a week they're like a substitute family and cook and eat together every evening. in ten years we might earn more in ukraine then maybe the poles will come to work for us but not to do so if. they'd rather be living and working in ukraine but for now they can only dream of the kind of economic boom that their polish neighbor is experiencing. and that's your business update thanks for keeping me company as always you find out more on facebook and on twitter feeds his.

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