erratic maneuvering from wild oats eleven the two yachts almost bumping into each other just after leaving sydney harbor comanche has subsequently launched an official protest favorable winds could mean the race record of one day and thirteen hours falls this year that's. right that's your world news a bit more coming up at the top of the hour but stay tuned business is up next and if you're in the market for a skyscraper get out first we'll have tips on how you can go about it so stay with us. freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended in new. all over the world arch of freedom freedom of art. a multimedia

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new silk road why china is sinking two point five billion dollars into a port in georgia and how local companies there are trying to cash in on the new trade route on their doorstep. this is e w business i'm going to the office in berlin welcome china and pakistan will look at extending the fifty seven billion dollars china pakistan economic corridor to afghanistan as a part of china's ambitious bells and road plan linking china with asia europe and beyond china is trying to position itself as a helpful party to promote talks between pakistan and afghanistan both uneasy in a ever since pakistan's independence in one thousand forty seven that's what chinese foreign minister one year had to say on tuesday. china and pakistan are willing to look at including afghanistan other bases of the void when neutrally beneficial principles discussing appropriate means to extend china

pakistan economic corridor sure afghanistan. is shit. and this corridor will become part of what is known as the new silk road it takes its name from an ancient trade route one thousand years ago long caravans of camels brought porcelain spices and precious silk all the way from china to europe today the chinese government is investing hundreds of billions of u.s. dollars to revive this road by building ports and bridges and roads both in china and abroad this week we want to take you on a journey along the new silk road and take a closer look at the most important stations and today we stop in tbilisi the capital of georgia is the only country in the southern caucuses with access to the black sea cutting shipping time to europe significantly and this is why the next ten years the chinese government will sink two point five billion dollars into the georgian black sea port of larnaca building a brand new deep sea hub but georgia does not only want to be

a transit country with so much trade going past their doorstep georgian businesses small and large one a slice of the action on the new silk road. for the guards is a family get together like this doesn't happen so often anymore they're all looking after their businesses and son jordi now works in china as a marketing expert everyone here depends on chinese firms for their livelihoods to it all and to speak mandarin casually discuss the menu with a chinese restaurant staff. i thank you mother because it's through using our whole family is connected to china. and. this new luxury hotel is a few kilometers from tbilisi it belongs to the chinese quarreling group the director is a friend of a family restaurant many guests here but the boss is thinking long term he's

been in tbilisi for eighty years and has invested millions of chinese business park is due to be built close by with shops restaurants and a massive fim park. first they'll be a lot of concrete then many trees will be planted because that will look nice and be good for the environment because. this is the entrance to the business part vacant land all owned by chinese investors a few months ago the biggest shopping mall in the caucuses opened here one hundred fifty thousand square metres of retail space but customers are scarce it's simply too far from the city center and western brands are not on offer. there are some shops like this for key. if you want to buy some furniture and other things you can come here and buy. as mandarin lessons at the bend or kids' agrarian

university in tbilisi the teacher is annie's mother. she can't complain about lack of interest there are more students studying chinese than russian here. i study china's because i sing it's a more perspective language in the world and also china in a vis innovate to much money in georgia we already have a good relation with chinese people and we will we have to continue this relation. family know their future is with china and it's a sure thing that their youngest member is going to grow up speaking mandarin. today father christmas can put up his feet and take a well deserved rest meanwhile retailers will be taking stock of sales here in germany the retail association says online sales increased by ten percent this holiday season and many of the big money spinning products are from the world of

tech both the serious the silly fun. look at the little drummer boy playing without a drum set he's playing on free drum using sensors to track a drummer's movements high tech is fun throwing a roller coaster at copenhagen's to fully you can ride a dragon through a fantasy world or enjoy the thrills of a hyper realistic london skyline adventure when in fact you're laying in an advanced swivel chair. virtual reality made a big splash in twenty seventeen but not only for thrill seekers we are as a learning tool to this sure lets you look inside the body a lesson in biology ready to wear. were all over the place dressing humans in east and dogs with the call over connects to g.p.s. and other devices. and if wearing your tech isn't personal enough for you how

about implants chipping people sounds like an orwellian whoreson ario but it's quite practical. once chipped employees at a swedish company can open doors with the swipe of a hand employees are thrilled. i want to be a part of the future and. a future where even information about your train ticket is stored under your skin a future where you pay using your fingertips privacy issues not for these early adopters. my facebook account probably knows more about me than this company will ever know about me i thought so i'm not really bothered by that humans and technology taking another step towards each other in twenty seventeen you do the walking the avatar follows at least for now. and east of london smoking some and has a long tradition that stems back to the jewish heritage of that area one company is

now in the hands of the fourth generation of the foreman family specializing in luxury cured fish products and now it's won the coveted e.u. protected origin status. smoked salmon from london's east end is a traditional local product it's just received the e use protection of origin label london cured. we've been producing them here for one hundred twelve years with the oldest police sound in the world and some of the space fantastic tastes of sam another smoke. foreman smoke house is a family business now in its fourth generation he applied for the e.u. label four years ago long before the break that referendum. and we explain the history of the heritage of smokers have a big produced in this part of town and the methodology of demonstrated that it hasn't changed and so after two years they approved it and then they have to put it

forward to say you're going to have to go through a public consultation process and very proud to have this recognition this year. although he's received the recognition from the e.u. the company's head is convinced it's right for britain to leave the european union he doesn't believe in the euro and expects the e.u. to soon face another major economic crisis he's certain britain is better off without the e.u. and without the e.u.'s bureaucracy. two years ago there was a new regulation which meant that we had to spend literally tens of thousands of pounds reprinting our smoked salmon packaging so that a packet of smoked salmon could have an e.u. warning sign on the back saying contains fish i do think we've become far too regulates really too much of a nanny state and i don't think that's good for business generally foreman is exporting salmon to more than thirty countries isn't he afraid his business could take a hit because of. communication has changed hands so i don't think the e.u.

is a purpose in terms of geography is irrelevant you know if you want to have a trading arrangement with another country it could be with any country in the world. lance is certain that china is the market of the future not the european union. and we've been in forty years we've all the bureaucracy of the rules and regulations and we've sort of become tired as a result and i think it will give us a really great fresh opportunity to actually say why what are the positives when we see the trade deals around the world lance is convinced it's important to move ahead with the times but for the european union he believes the time is up. before you go just in case you're looking to buy a skyscraper i have a top tip for you a chinese court is auctioning off a thirty nine floor building in taiwan and the northern province the online auction

is held on our that's ali baba's e-commerce platform and it is the biggest yes for the side with the prize of just eighteen million dollars the bio will have to spend quite a bit more as pictures show a half finished building dinny lit and not very inviting these days many chinese courts have taken to auctioning off goods left over from bankruptcy the lawsuits on the web including cars jewelry and recently even several boeing seven four seven jumbo jets. it was one of those for myself and that's it for me and the business team here for the moment to have more news on. the top of the hour in the meantime . twitter and facebook feeds. is a real time check up on the global markets and how the face of this all thanks for watching.

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