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in the last three matches and the implementation of peter boss game plan continues to cause problems. early in the season we were on a roll and nobody talked about it it's normal that when you're not winning and able to talk about it. what football fans around the world talk about after saturday's game remains to be seen with a window and could be back in first and see some positive headlines. you're up to date now on data will you news that marion ever stand out from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. health. and hearings to law. solidarity. they fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and poor grows.
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like in an equal society. divide starting november fifteenth on d. w. . with different languages we fight for different things that's fine let me all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters d. w. made for mines. this week saw a nominee for the position of chair of the us federal reserve after considering a short list of candidates president donald trump chose to run powell a member of the fed's board to head the u.s. central bank. as president there are
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a few decisions more important than nominating leaders of integrity and good judgment to hold trusted positions in public office and few of those trusted positions are more important than the chairman of the federal reserve sixty four year old powell has a background in law and investment management he has a reputation as a friend of bank deregulation but he is generally seen as a moderate who has supported the fed's recent monetary policy inside the federal reserve we understand that monetary policy decisions matter for american families and communities i strongly share that sense of mission and i'm committed to making decisions with objectivity based on the best available evidence in the long standing tradition of monetary policy independence if confirmed powell will take over from janet yellen as fed chief and she succeeded ben bernanke in two thousand and fourteen under previous u.s.
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president barack obama i think she could be seen as one who kind of carried the torch and continued the bernanke doctrine and his wake and did a great job and terms of communicating policy and tensions and telegraphing those moves to markets experts agree that yellen led the fed with clear vision and concrete results but they say that although trump wants a yellen style fed he wants it without janet yellen which makes jerome powell the perfect choice for the job. four point seven billion dollars in the third quarter of twenty seventeen a nearly eighty percent jump in profit. but investigations suggest that some of facebook's huge gains came from fake accounts that may have been created in russia
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. the so-called troll factories posted political ads with the aim of influencing last year's u.s. election being shared by millions of facebook users the messages were incendiary they were heavily partisan the content is really really striking and that's the kind of stuff that gets shared for free and you don't have to pay to get that to too many people facebook's legal advisor told a u.s. senate hearing that the platform should have clamped down on fake accounts in the two years ahead of the election one russia based group generated an estimated eighty thousand posts that reached around one hundred twenty six million users roughly half the number of people who are eligible to vote in the u.s. . facebook says it intends to address the problem c.e.o. and founder mark zuckerberg has said he will be for up tools to prevent misuse. protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits he said.
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that protection won't come cheap facebook says it will be doubling the number of reviewers and security personnel to twenty thousand. critics say the move is overdue and that facebook has ignored hate speech and propaganda on the world's largest social media platform for far too long. the dax it broke through the twelve thousand mark in march galloped past thirteen thousand in october and continued upward this week in an unprecedented show of strength for the german blue chip index here the trading floor is calm the recipe for success seems simple buy stocks land back and watch them rise and the expectation is that things won't change anytime soon. and next thing ya shyness or things already seem to be on track for next year even europe in asia have that
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crises behind them u.s. growth is continuing because of trump by tim it doesn't matter which it's an assist pass for germany's export economy and the ball is going into the goal. and that makes it a home game for germany the world economy is expected to grow strongly next year by three point seven percent according to the international monetary fund germany's export economy is geared to profit from such situations. another indication that the upswing may persist is recent figures from the institute for shipping economics and logistics it reported that container turnover in german ports is rising steadily. that's an initial signal that companies are optimistic about the next few months and that they're more willing to invest. the carve up of air berlin looks to be complete now that british budget airline
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easyjet agreed to buy a slice of the bankrupt carrier the forty million euro deal includes twenty five least planes and takeoff and landing slots at berlin's table airport it will also save the jobs of around one thousand avril and employees easy jet's purchase is subject to regulatory approval and the lion's share of air berlin assets is due to go to germany's biggest airline lived. hands up. livestock farming was one of the sticking points as german parties tried to hammer out a three way governing coalition in contrast to the conservative c.d.u. the greens want to ban factory farming and they got support from greenpeace this week environmental activists protested in berlin against the suffering on industrial animal farms. doj a post is testing a robot that helps mail carriers on their rounds the wheeled yellow box is equipped with sensors that enable it to recognise the carriers legs and follow them around
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lugging up to one hundred fifty kilograms of mail the first battery powered post boats have been rolled out in bad has failed in central germany. venezuela is printing big money to combat hyperinflation president nicolas maduro presented the country's most valuable new bank note is the one hundred thousand dollars of our bill worth about two euros a year ago the hundred boliver note was the largest denomination but now it's worth practically nothing. but this week the new one hundred thousand will enter circulation into the venezuelan monetary system to strengthen the social security and venezuelan families and workers and sort out. the government also raise the minimum wage which starting in november rose by thirty percent. venezuela is mired in corruption and can hardly pay off its loans due to the lack of hard currency
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foodstuffs and medicine in the country are scarce. despite having the world's largest oil reserves venezuela is teetering on the brink of economic collapse on thursday maduro essentially admitted that publicly for the first time announcing plans to restructure the country's ballooning debt. thousands of protesting uber drivers like here in sao paulo brought traffic to a standstill in cities across brazil this week. to raise awareness of their situation they drove at a snail's pace down main roads or parked in the middle of the street. they're all against draft law number twenty eight. it says that uber drivers will need a license to transport passengers they'll have to buy passenger insurance and their cars will be inspected more often. and what's going to brazil is in the middle of
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a financial crisis lots of people like me can earn money as drivers if the new law is passed half a million drivers will lose their income that will make brazil's crisis worse because the order you believe of. the conflict between super drivers and taxi drivers is heating up across the globe increasingly the taxi associations are coming out on top they're taking her to court to demand the same rights obligations and regulations for all drivers. the fishermen in the czech republic got busy this week preparing for christmas. part of a traditional czech christmas is a car caught using centuries old methods. first the fishermen hit the water with long poles to drive the fish into a large net. they circled the carp in their small boats after draining water from
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the pond. then they hoisted thousands of tons of the coveted fish out of the water in smaller nets and place them in portable tanks. and this way the live carp are delivered to christmas markets for sale additionally there served on christmas eve fried in breadcrumbs or as a fish soup. this fish is a predator and off the coast of south africa it's stocks the thousands of seals that gather in the channel called shark alley. the area is also one of the world's top commercial cage diving destinations here in france by tourists can book a short tour for one hundred to one hundred fifty euros goosebumps guaranteed to go
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. protected by a few metal bars in the icy water coming face to face with a great white shark is a thrill few visitors will never forget. you know i don't live near an ocean and so. the only experience i had was sharks is what i see on t.v. and i believe these and seeing them firsthand is ok i don't think you could compare to anything else yeah it's pretty amazing. shark tourism brings in revenue but it also enables researchers to inform the public about how vulnerable sharks are how they're caught in troll nets or targeted for their families. cage diving industry and cons bias been operating for a number of years many of these boats collecting daily observational data now to better protect him at. we first have to know something about it so we can hype to push legislations at high levels if we don't have that knowledge to to first
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investigate the great white shark called the lion of the oceans helps maintain the ecological balance but populations have been decimated there are only about three thousand worldwide some tough apprises the shark as a tourism resource if other countries also valued it more as a tourist attraction than as a meal the great white shark might have a chance of survival. and that was our business week and if you. view interest in the fish and. look serious drive it at the forty fifth tokyo motor show a home again for japan's biggest carmaker the future of mobility dominates the exhibition with
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