from albert einstein describing the key to happiness as sought for around one point five million dollars at an auction in jerusalem einstein gave the piece of hundred vice to a japanese bellboy after the scientists realize he had no money to give him a tip the auction note reads a calm and modest live brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness bidding began at two thousand dollars but escalated quickly before the note went to a mystery vigil you're watching the news to stick on business news of ben facility we're looking at your fans as earnings are soaring in the german airline is using its white to go on buying spree in europe. that's coming up shortly. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in

a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have walked off the streets of many qantas and their problems are always the same core to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the floor to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work at the top of the. flying high low funds are reports better than expected corporate results against up

carry out a sponsor consolidation drive in the aviation sector and complaints from rivals. and of life is a debate drags on a you member states just can't decide if the weed killer poses a risk to us. and been physical and let's do business lufthansa profits have gone sky high germany's largest airline is celebrating the best earnings period in company history the carrier has boosted its revenues by over twelve percent to around twenty seven billion euros and that's helping drive earnings to new heights pretax profits totaled two point six billion euros over the last nine months the funds a subsidiary airlines are helping fuel that growth they've had their overall passenger capacity by over ten percent and a keeping many of those seats filled with onza can use that extra cash of course it's busy buying up failing rivals. germany's largest airline lifton's us seems to have an insatiable appetite after buying

a large chunk of bankrupt lin the carrier now wants parts of beleaguered italian rival al italia would love to answer the most interested in the aircraft in the landing slots thousands could be laid off even so full of tons of expansion is the name of the game in twenty sixteen the carrier flew some one hundred ten million passengers nearly two percent more than in twenty fifteen that growth didn't come from its full service carry a look to answer but it's budget euro wings for the first time lift on says passenger figures were overtaken by island by its low cost carrier ryanair the sector remains very competitive tons ams to grow and stay ahead without forking out huge amounts of money that's more than a survival strategy but antitrust authorities could spoil the party they'll be reviewing where the left answer is gaining a monopoly position on too many groups as its buying spree continues. over to our

financial correspondent in frankfurt and that of buy spark and there's a just how dominant could love turns a big come domestically. but my security it will be a very dominant carrier look at the big routes people are flying frankfurt hamburg frankfurt berlin frankfurt munich that's the only airline now doing these flights and that's also reflected already at least. what you fear in the prices at the same time the commission. competition commission marketing to vest has already said in an interview that they will look very slowly into the deal now the. time to actually has to give away certain destinations in order to comply with competition laws so that's still open that question because it's going to be interesting to see with ticket prices with some of those routes in the hundreds of euros what about internationally for the fans because it's not just

growing at home it's also growing abroad. gets is also growing abroad the european market is a very competitive market and look tons as new mission is also to compete with low cost carriers the likes of ryanair and also easy jet and what they are doing now is to bolster and to build up their unit euro beings and that's also why they were so interested in avalon assets and that's also the reason why they're interested in tire yes it's talking about. that was or is an airline in trouble for so many years and also the lufthansa c.e.o. is making it quite clear that they don't want to kind of take over alitalia as it stands they want to have a restructured alitalia and parts of the assets in order to. have a bigger share of the italian holiday market which is quite attractive and

currently dominated by ryan and easyjet and if there in frankfurt on a sector that really consolidating quickly thank you very much. the e.u. has put the controversial gleiser sate debate on the back burner member states can't agree on renewing a european license for the home side widely used in crops over a million europeans have signed a petition against it worried the chemical causes cancer but there are studies that insist it's totally safe. it's the most commonly used have assigned in the world. in europe farmer sprague life aside on around half of all fields used to raise commercial crops many critics demand a ban on bly for site. activists began applying pressure in brussels at the beginning of the wake. the international agency for research on cancer of the world health organization has found that life as it causes cancer in animals and probably

also in humans means that there's urgent need for action studies don't agree on where the glaive aside is a long term cancer risk or not the world health organization has said it could pose a danger the e.u.'s food safety authority has proclaimed the chemicals harmless but has also been accused of basing that opinion on studies sponsored by glaive a site manufacturer of monsanto grains in the european parliament say that's not acceptable that we need to look at independent studies not just ones carried out by the industry and then we have to finally end this thing with life aside there is a standard farming methods that work fine without the heavy use of chemicals. by standard farming methods sling means organic agriculture but many farmers say those methods are too expensive and think it's enough to only ban the use of herbicide directly before the harvest conservative m e p's disagree with the greens but blame member states for not reaching

a decision i find it very regrettable that for more than two years the member states don't have a clear position they are always postponing there's no majority for any position. if not extended the license to use clive for site in the european union will expire on december the fifteenth. let's get the view from our reporter in brussels catherine martens as well as our asia correspondent andrea hang i do both catherine let's start with you should european consumers be worried. the conflicting evidence the european member states indeed faith in providing a clear consumer. indication of whether life present is harmful or not and this added to read only emphasizes a feeling of consumer insecurity in europe and probably fuel civil society protests in europe as well and how's the i recall troll industry in asia reacting to the

news well there is concern and no where in awareness about the use of legacy and its potential harm to humans but not really conclusive studies have been conducted just yet not enough to create. these there's a study. that focuses on the. apparent evidence of like to see in pregnant women on the other hand sometime last year it's high what had a clampdown on quick oats products which had traces of blood so there is concern just not quite a big enough one yet ok as far as the market goes in the asia pacific it's the biggest for glaive aside i guess a bat in europe wouldn't stop asian projects treated with the weed killer from crossing borders. not immediately at least a lot of countries egypt are still very heavily dependent on like the sea especially in the farming he countries like thailand was even taiwan is i mentioned

earlier now these countries some of these countries are a little behind in adopting. whole tentative. more eco statement it's also science and this is science in singapore one of them still is going to be a very slow process so anybody in the e.u. is not going to. it's not going to have an immediate ripple effect is asia well it's a similar case in europe care for many farmers a heavily reliant on life and so traces have been found in french wine german beer why then is there so much confusion about its health effects i mean it's been used for quite some time now well according to our sources here in brussels it is not anymore about finding new facts or finding new scientific evidence it is getting more and more a political power game with huge and powerful lobbies on both sides so the giant one center is threaten the threatening the european union to challenge any decision

in court for example on the other hand the formal lobby is mongering without life or say that the agriculture sector would be really. having a really harmful impact there were there are threatening of food costs and watched in between the european member states who are definitely not keen to touch this hot political potato very soon again because there's something that's become highly politicized given that when are we going to get a decision is this going to be on the back burner for months if not years to come or are we going to get a decision soon catherine. well this is already in the kind of a joint game for already two years now because the european member states are not keen to be the ones who will have maybe for example a bad position and then they have to fix

a difficult position back home so i think we can expect that there will be a decision by and of december this year at the latest when the european commission calls on the member states to convene one more time in brussels in order to finish their job and to make a decision on graph is it ok that if it will be a merry christmas for all those involved catherine for the european perspective in brussels there for us and for the view from asia thank you to both of you. just briefly saudi arabia is planning a gigantic city full of drugs. and robots a project on babae the kingdom's crown prince. as it's called his plan to run entirely on alternative energy will be located in the desert land along the red sea any egypt and jordan and might become the world's biggest city of the most of the estimated to cost five hundred billion. dollars out of saudi arabia has plans to diversify its economy. although saudis into work. doing business with

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