crowd in a nearby spots people that devastated that the city has been targeted yet again. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we're following for you here before we go u.s. ambassador nikki haley has threatened u.n. members with funding cuts if they back a resolution condemning president donald trump's decision to recognize teresa lynn as israel's capital speaking ahead of the general assembly's vote on the issues she said that the u.s. is being asked to pay for the privilege of being disrespected. you're up to date now on news i'm sorry kelly in berlin don't forget you can follow us on facebook and twitter a c o. two w.'s program guide. highlights. the home.

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green light from the to take over parts of a about the end but will the deal punish consumers and political instability in catalonia is hitting boss alone where it hurts its tourism industry. i've been for school and let's do business it's the season to be jolly not so if you're flying ryanair pilots based in germany a walking off the job or the friday the union accusing the airline of a publicist he stopped it promised to recognize unions for the first time in company history to avert the strike but when it came to yesterday's talks ryanair pulled out at short notice rejecting two of the union officials taking pot. ryanair ahead michael o'leary will bend over backwards to make a buck and that mentality has helped to make ryan air a force to be reckoned with and the european market. further refining the ultra low cost model plane needed by u.s. carriers sell to west o'leary cut ticket prices in favor of making money and

baggage fees on board shopping and other secondary revenue streams. but that cost cutting obsession ran him a fall of many unions they objected to what they described as substandard pay poor working conditions and uncertain labor contracts. the result many pilots left ryanair and the airline recently announced it would be forced to cancel some twenty thousand flights through march of next year. to stave off a threatened strike in some european territories over the holidays ryanair management recently announced it would finally enter into talks with the unions but if we've got to make a change will make a change and in this case because it was christmas week it was within their control and were where we called to to call off this action so people can take away all that uncertainty i get home for christmas but it seems that not everyone was convinced my cool leary had really changed his tune germany's pilot union cockpit says they're calling for a four hour morning strike on ryanair flights in germany this friday or if they

carry through with the threat it would be the first strike in ryanair history. and we've got the union spokesman here on. thanks for joining us so where did all go wrong can you give us some sort of explanation as to what happened to your campaign for union recognition at ryanair which you had just managed to clinch i thought. yeah that's what we thought as well but when we travelled through dublin yesterday and met the ryanair fish oils we found out that the first thing they wanted to do is to decide and to dictate even with whom they want to and negotiate and with whom not they said two of our five goshen team negotiation team members were not of their liking so they said well those those two guys have to leave or the other one could stay and that's not how. they didn't like the look at them oh well basically problem. they said they are in

a legal dispute with ryan air this is because they got fired one of them just because they he announced that he's part of the negotiation team brian and fired him and then you they got into a legal conflict and they said we don't talk to people we do it we are in a legal conflict with a gay must be a frustrating situation yeah definitely it is because. this is us and for the right in a pile it actually is pretty bad hundreds of them leave ryan and they say well. they they hope for better contracts in the future and they hope for for such basic things like a good holiday regulation like a good payment and it even those basic things ryan s.s. well we don't put them into a contract so we just are not interested in discussing with them pilots really treated like janitors is some of them charge say that again

they really treated like cleaning personnel as as some of the pilots actually accuse the airline. most of them actually are they even if they want to drink a bottle of water during the twelve day twelve hour a day a working day they have to pay for this water and if they did that to stand up and say hey this can't be this can be the right way they get fired right away and this is definitely not the way that employers should treat his employee briefly tell me about the treatment of passengers you guys a coaling a strike at a very inconvenient time christmas yet it's that's perfectly true however we on purpose decided to limit the strike to four hours in the morning there were probably sixteen flights affected this is just to keep the

consequences for the passengers as small as possible however of course if there is a pilot strike there will be played it's not flying in the us automatically affecting passengers we get that but there's no other choice again i'm just glad i'm taking a train and not a plane marcus thanks for coming on the. clear skies for loved ones in brussels has approved the german airlines partial takeover of air berlin yet as lufthansa grows so do fears it could become far too dominant. live tan says so opportunity in the demise of its one time rival was bust the fact ship carrier could take on new groups as well as the aircraft and employees to service them. it's originally proposed to take over this included two subsidiaries that plan sparked e.u. concerns of a competition that responded last week with a more modest proposal dropping the purchase of austrian flyer nikky all together

and instead of the original eighty one aircraft it wanted to buy it would now buy just sixty a green light from brussels raises other questions first among them who will buy the airline nikky which remains insolvent there are already a number of interested buyers including the original owner former austrian racing car driver nicky lauder yet another decision for a turbulent european airline market. flying tourist numbers of taking a dive in the german capital something i put to our financial correspondent. yeah that's the case at least according to the tourism authorities in berlin tourist numbers are down by six to seven percent in the month of october and november and that's because abilene has ceased to operate there's literally not enough capacity to fly tourists into into berlin at least at cost except to

post to them because obviously ever since berlin eveline ceased to operate lufthansa has hiked the prices for many tickets of many routes inside germany saying that this because demand is so so high and that might change once again when they have the additional capacity of operation that can be as soon as generally as we know by today because they're adding thirty three more aircraft from lynn of course not only on that route but of course some also going on various routes into lead and that should help to add capacity and bring more tourists once again back to berlin a moment of truth as cattle lands votes in regional elections it's being seen as another independence ballot the last failed bid to separate from spain has hit the nation's wealthiest region thousands of companies relocating the headquarters of a legal uncertainty and tourists have stayed away.

these street musicians in barcelona's old city are jamming in front of a sparse audience. december is the slow season anyway but the political crisis here is making matters worse since october the number of tourists has dropped almost twenty percent compared to a year ago. four years tourism has boomed in the popular mediterranean city but recently business has taken a dive. the volume of hotel reservations has tumbled with luxury hotels taking the biggest hit. and with not only for the hotels are suffering the consequences they've reacted by offering discounts but with little success if we can fish for customers as much as we want but it doesn't help if there are no fish in the river has got there just aren't any

customers now that's new for barcelona and it obviously has to do with the fact that tourists are afraid of coming here. but the center katherina market is bustling with customers christmas season business is as good as every year according to the merchants here many catalogs consider the ominous business news an attempt by madrid to scare the public. but the fact remains that many spanish consumers across the country refuse to buy cut along products and are considering an all out boycott. the conflict continues at the dinner table between bites of ham and catalan cheese. is a bit of a. yes it's true that we're sensitive it's got that and those that want independence would rather buy cattle on products and those on the other side you know approach spain people buy products from other parts of spain but in the long run it doesn't make any sense at least not for corn maze and i was going to get it and veto. even

the real estate market has been damaged by the political sledgehammer foreign investors would rather stay away from doing business in the catalog capital. have simply disappeared sixty five percent of them have left here. they would rather invest somewhere else or portugal. the political climate is poison for catalonia business setting many companies have shelved investments executive that the new elections and the current crisis they urge both sides to seek dialogue in particular about a decentralization of spanish state power.

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