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thirty eight people the attack took place in a busy square during rush hour no claims of responsibility yet but the bombings there are the hallmarks of the so-called islamic state. you're watching d.w. news still to come. chinese tourists are flocking to a new coastal hotspot in an engine lever as investment pours in from beijing. on freedom and home. where i come from the region is rich in history. but so poor in. freedom this makes it especially difficult for independent journalists i see many of the younger and promising who are now making names for themselves all over the. song along the way some might follow. with continue. the experience of freedom in
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a sense is like the unions of the. u.k. visited a few kong come back home. my name is joseph wood and i work at the number. up in the air the future looks shaky for air buses flex ship a three eighty with a new wimmer it's. the double decker jumbo jets days could be numbered the. caribbean collapses one of the biggest construction companies in the u.k. the government kept awarding it contracts despite profit warning. the gas guzzlers face off against their smaller eco friendly cousins at the detroit motor show. and as beijing boosts investments in cambodia and you destination is born for china's
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growing tourist classes. and let's do business the future of the a three eighty is up in the air european aircraft says it's on the verge of ditching the super jumbo aircraft that seats five hundred passengers was supposed to revolutionize air travel but its only significant customer dubai's emirates is not ordering enough planes to justify production. what was hoped to be the company's biggest success is turning into a disappointing defeat with just over three hundred planes sold and few on order airbus says it will stop making the a three eighty super jumbo if it doesn't get more business from top client emirates which is now buying planes from boeing says that the dubai based airline is key for its business they're probably the only one who has the ability right now in the marketplace to take a minimum of six
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a year for a period of eight to ten years and then we can add some on top of that so quite honestly if we can't work out a deal with emirates i think there is no choice but to shut down the program but i'm hopeful that we'll work out a deal with emirates and others can add airplanes on top of that some hold bring mains apparently but the revolution will have to wait. the british government says the public sector continued awarding contracts to construction john despite profit warnings half a year ago the heavily indebted company has announced it's immediately quotation shares in the firm a suspended jobs are on the line as well as hundreds of projects. as one of britain's largest construction companies it was known for prestigious projects such as the tate modern in london manchester's beat him tower and heathrow airport terminal five karelian was valued at more than one billion dollars as of last
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summer but things took a turn when the company issued a profit warning in july its share price tumbled and by august crilly was demoted from the f.t. s c one hundred the index for the u.k.'s largest one hundred companies karelian now owes more than one billion dollars to its lenders. the shareholders the creditors the barons are going to have to say a cartel hit we cannot have a situation where profit size ation means private profits when they project so successful that the government nationalizing the losses when they fail a lot would not be acceptable are karelians demise will leave more than forty thousand people uncertain about their jobs and small subcontractors fear their invoices may go unpaid it's now worth a meager eighty million dollars that's less than a tenth of the value a few months ago its financial problems are blamed on unprofitable contracts and delayed payments from projects in the middle east through critics could see this next story is a blow to their campaign against tax avoidance the european union is set to remove
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eight countries from its list of tax havens officials say panama south korea the united arab emirates and five others have committed to changing their tax rules in u.n. ambassadors will discuss the proposal on wednesday it's expected to be adopted by the finance ministers when they meet next week in brussels. forget it if you're trying to peddle something leaning clane the main muscle machines are still all the rage at the detroit motor show it's a hot market segment that u.s. based auto makers have dominated for years still that's not stopping the germans. knew. the end of the new mercedes s.u.v. . i. don't think c.e.o. needed such invited famous actor and former california state governor arnold schwarzenegger to the presentation of the new g. class up front and c.v.
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. with so many carmakers vying for attention against the cantor. u.s. carmakers are also showcasing large vehicles like ford which presented a new pickup trucks and record as c.v.s. are generating fat profits for american manufacturers spurred by low gasoline prices american consumers are snapping them up for it may have promised to invest eleven billion dollars in electric cars in the coming years but here in detroit the new team ability is barely to be seen instead power in performance by the name of the king. let's pull in now correspondents cost and for a nominee who's in detroit daniel cope a financial correspondent in frankfurt kasten starting with you here stealing the show a vehicle the driverless cars or the usual gas guzzlers in the spotlight. definitely the traditional gas guzzling or combustion engine cars of basically this is
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a very traditional all to show where all the big companies are showing off their latest and most shining model it's of course all the companies these days have to talk about emo billet. who we just saw has said yesterday that the plan of those bands is to really. electrified the whole fleet the complete fleet including the new g. klaus over time b.m.w. appointed ology they are the market leaders at least in the luxury segment for cars but the truth is that here the focus clearly is on traditional cars and that makes sense because only one percent of cars here in the united states are electric cars these days and if you look at the lights vehicles and trucks it's clear two thirds of all cars are s.u.v.s these days only one third light vehicle it's all traditional sedans custom do you know why that is why the mobility isn't
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electrifying the american. well this is a vast country yes to be fair i mean there are enormous distances between places here and there simply not the infrastructure and also technology is not as far as advanced the most batteries in the electric cars these days have a range of less than one hundred miles and then if you don't have a place where you can recharge your battery you're in trouble and also it would take a lot of money to have plug in stations all over the country so we can expect mostly in the big cities there will be change over time but it will take time. would this be a boon for the german automakers daniel they've been pretty slow in the mobility race . yet even though ban we are seeing that numbers here sales numbers off billet he cars and also his bridge cars are going out there still not at
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a level where they're supposed to be remote when i'm going to america was saying at some time she really wants to make germany number one here in europe when it comes to immobility this is certainly not to the case and yes sales numbers are also going up here in germany with a good old petrol car and even the diesel evil baluchi here in germany is still a big problem also. carsten also just mention it when it comes to the infrastructure just in berlin where you are right now ben you need up to six different contexts to go all around the city in order to charge your car works live here in germany right now as to promoting their ego but still with very little success another reason why all of this is happening at the moment gas prices are still already a. change at the moment we are seeing a very strong euro a weak dollar and oil the oil price is being traded in dollars so that's another reason and really briefly danielle while i've got you there the u.s.
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tax cuts as well could boost european manufacturers i've read. the other saying that because of the u.s. tax cuts we are actually might be getting an uplift off for poor sand here happening in europe as well but frankly speaking of course the u.s. market is investors it's important for investors but also they are looking to china and russia are those markets also growing very fast thank you daniel and thank you very much for nominee. for china and cambodia have signed billions of deals or business deals worth billions of dollars rather a lot infrastructure projects for the impoverished southeast asian nation and you expressway for example will connect the capital with the coastal city of see how they feel with the chinese have been busy building. they have big plans here up to ten thousand factories are supposed to be built and the province of see hope that's according to a master plan laid out by the company government construction has already started
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with investments from china the region could become one of us most important economic centers the whole project is inspired by the industrial zones in thailand's eastern economic corridor. for the future it's a good thing a lot of investment is coming in a lot of knowledge a lot of chops and a lot of tourists growing numbers of chinese visitors have to scupper at the nearby beaches also very popular casinos new ones seem to open up in every corner. of the i know a lot of chinese have come here to invest their money and build hotels and restaurants i think the fact that many of the new businesses are chinese operated is really important in helping to attract more and more chinese tourists to come here because it feels like home ok. it doesn't feel like home
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for many of the locals though they feel pushed out of their own city. now that the chinese have come it's difficult to find new places to rent both for business and for living in. several restaurants and stores have recently lost their rental agreements at the most popular beaches they were asked to move out to make room for a large investor with roots in both cambodia and china. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut. cut.
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