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investors then also very interesting that by two thousand and thirty most likely it sixty five percent of the energy is going to be from new about energy so yeah it's a topic that of course every investor here at the stock market is watching and i can tell you that everybody here is also very relieved at the moment hot. in frankfurt thank you. there's another infectious disease threatening farm animals in europe it's called african swine fever wild boars a common sight in many european forests carriers and help spread the disease governments are telling hunters to shoot them on sight the latest outbreak appears to have begun in russia authorities in neighboring bellerose banned some imports of russian or but viruses don't respect national borders so that is easy is making its way into the heart of europe already has crossed into the baltic states and poland where in total thousands of cases have been reported this is why the european
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commission is backing a car of wild boars it's also warning people to be careful with food waste that could contain the highly contagious disease it was first recorded in africa a century ago hence the name since then it's spread around the world and while it doesn't affect humans it's almost always deadly to pigs drug companies have been trying to develop a vaccine so far without success african swine fever could end up costing european governments millions while the financial damage to farmers can already be felt as our report shows. the un being on ski has been raising pigs for decades where he still can't believe they're all gone now some dead wild boar were found near his farm it turns out they were infected with african swine fever in response authorities ordered that all farm pigs in a radius of fifty kilometers be called.
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let's see they came in made a list instead of weighing the pigs they made a rough estimate of their weight and they said all of them had to be killed and disposed of. an insurance policy for animal diseases paid only a fraction of the pigs value to the burnouts keys six months later they're still not allowed to buy any new pics. now of the states i think we're going to retire actually and now we just take instead as it comes out of i'm going to receive the money from our insurance but it was almost nothing. the entire region eastern poland near the village of road needed ski has been under quarantine from months due to african swine fever and does not incite many farmers here had large herds but now the animals are all dead. no one here thinks the industry can ever recover from this blow villagers are even afraid
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to keep a pig for their own needs something that used to be commonplace here. even keeping only one pig poses a risk it can infect a large groups of pigs like three hundred. the african swine fever is being spread primarily by wild boar which have been infected with the virus the disease is always deadly for the animals there's no medicine to fight the illness the river vistula forms a natural barrier to the spread of the disease but in december of twenty seventeen infected boar were found on the west side of the river now there's a danger that the virus could spread to germany. and i saw warning signs but i don't know if they're true i haven't seen any dead animals. the dead boers or just the pretense someone is trying to ruin the polish farmers have been used. before the. younger not ski doesn't believe in such conspiracy theories he's hoping that by the spring his lucrative business will be back on track
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facebook has announced a major overhaul to its news feed that will prioritize posts by friends and family over unpaid post by companies and media organizations the side hopes to stop businesses from quote crowding out personal moments for its uses facebook says companies using pages to promote content will likely see a decrease in reach video watch time and referral traffic as a result of facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has said the changes could make people spend less time on facebook but that the time spent will be more valuable company is responding to a growing tide of criticism about its role in society. well facebook has changed its algorithms before and i did you use options but what makes the latest announcement so different to find out i'm not joined by steven this is from a social media that stephen is this just another algorithm change girl i think it
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goes a bit more beyond user option and goes to something more fundamental about the ranking system itself so that means that friends and families are going to go higher and posts that are from organizations businesses media outlets like which of all they're going to go below so that picture from your mother with you know your cats on it her cats on it once people start reacting with that once they start liking it once or harding it once they say how is mugsy doing then that's going to shoot up to the top you're going to see that more often but is this. the behavior of a monopolist is it an abuse of market as some people have said. i think some people would maybe argue that i think obviously a lot of people actually argue a lot of businesses especially media companies would argue that what facebook has done where you can say it's monopolistic or not at a minimum it's maybe a bait and switch they've brought in a bunch of companies by saying this is your platform this is how you reach out we're the only game in town and these media companies and other organizations saw
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that they really had no other options people weren't going to their websites they were going to facebook so they had to be active on facebook and now facebook in a way of saying you're not going to get the same attention so what options is that leap does that mean they have to pay now that to pay more times what does that mean for full media companies and for for other businesses that rely on facebook by now we're not just businesses but think about organizations they've got charities you know organizations that need that outreach but obviously businesses to have l. would be among those you know we depend on facebook as well as other social networks to reach out and to to form a core audience it's a very important part of our work here we have products that are geared completely towards social media and facebook in particular one of them of course is dress code which you're familiar with as your series on men style that's very popular for us that's one of our biggest products the question now is and what we're starting to look at is what happens address what happens to the other products we make exclusively for online and for facebook how do we get them to still get the same
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attention and draw in the audience that we feel that we need for news so what can we for example keep doing to keep views. that's a good question and i think that's the question that looms large we can't post pictures of your grandmothers or your mother's cats and get people to really sort of interact in the same way what we can do is hopefully hope that by through their interaction with us if they're going to comment with us if they're going to like if they're going to hard if they're going to really sort of you know go back and forth with us a little bit that it's going to shoot higher up the interaction lots of likes lots of comments means that the content will still appear on the user's feeds and what works. roberta said from the beginning is the wants less passive interaction he wants people he doesn't want to hear that he was going to scroll past so they're going to and interact with your material then it should shoot to the top another option of course is that there should be user setting that allows people to see more options more post from organizations news organizations like what you felt were businesses even is this is
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a shrewd move zuckerberg just saying he wants to make the world a better place wants to make facebook a better place more for families and all that all the other had forcing companies to spend more money to promote their content i mean should we be surprised this is this is what this is tech one point zero right this is what they do this is straight out of the book you you talk about changing the world we want to make a killing doing it and so the language here is very much we have to make the world a better place but how are we still going to make all of our money and so they spoke still has a huge captive audience it's not giving up that captive audience these are numbers have gone down a bit there is reason to you know maybe be a little concerned especially with this conversation that you referenced in terms of is it good for people is social media good for people suffer because saying the right things now we want it to be good for people but he still wants that captive audience facebook is developing its own video offerings sort of like netflix it has plans for that audience. all be about making facebook and the world a better place even with the social media thank you very much for this insight
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