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what a difference a day makes on markets online global retailer amazon loses fifty three billion dollars on rumors alone we're talking about that three letter word for investors tax also coming up a haven if it weren't for all the tourists now time to say they've had enough shutting down the country's post famous speech and. japan's aging society has led to a shortage of human care workers it's time for. friends to fill the nursing gap . and daniel winter and this is your business update. us u.s. e-commerce giant amazon has lost as much as fifty three billion dollars of market value on wednesday trading its stock falling more than seven percent after a u.s.
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based web site reported president trump wants to go off to amazon because he's worried about main street stores being put out of business the white house denied any new policy changes towards amazon but its stock plunged anyway. on wall street force our markets man events against it's not just amazon us tech stocks overall are under pressure what's going on. well there is quite some regulatory pressure all over the place we had the privacy issues with facebook or we had some concerns about the self driving cars and to a good knowledge now that he might be on on amazon and even if the white house is saying that no action is a plan right now so what does right now mean not within the next five minutes not was and the next five days are what we hear out of the white house is from different sources that u.s. president donald trump is obsessed with amazon and that he might eventually look at
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how amazon and other online retailers are text then we shouldn't forget a lot of the friends of donald trump are actually coming from the real estate industry and online retailers so well they put some pressure on brick and mortar stores and there seems to be one concern of. this beautiful rainbow colors behind you there yes well let's talk test things have not been bright for them on tuesday reported on their sinking stock after a crash involving one of their cars but that's not the only thing on investors' minds. you know the stock of tesla dropped another almost eight percent here in the wednesday's session and that was because the credit rating agency moody's lowered the credit rating for tesla mostly because of there there are some concerns in the respect to the production of the new model sorry we will get the new figures
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next week recently tesla promised to deliver about two and a half thousand of those we killed per week but now wants me to things it's more likely that it will only be a thousand to fifteen hundred and on top of tesla also needs fresh money in. the credit markets are a lot of concerns all around tesla can tesla meet its great expectations we'll just have to say yes to thank you very much for and sticking with cars deila and b.m.w. are teaming up the two german car makers saying that they'll merge their offerings in car sharing rides hailing apps and systems for charging electric cars with their car to go and drive now brands under one roof the old guard of the automotive industry hope to take on a new breed of tech savvy competitors. diam learned b.m.w. are fierce competitors and they're going to remain so but when it comes to their car sharing divisions the two have become collaborators dialers card to go and
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b.m.w.'s drive now are set to merge creating a combined member base of four million drivers they read the cars by the minute picking them up and dropping them off flexibly within city limits the joint fleet will have around twenty thousand cars in them in thirty cities across europe and north america and one city in china card to go has been operating in eight countries while b.m.w.'s drive now has been available in nine for members nothing will change for now down the road however the two car makers say the aim is to expand mobility services an electric transport working closely with the urban authorities it's also a way of staving off competition for mobility mavericks like. uganda has banned the sale of mobile phone cards and credit in its streets thousands of small time vendors livelihoods are at risk as the government seeks to push phone users to formally register their sim cards in a national database if the police say it's a necessary step to fight criminal gangs who use the phones to coordinate robberies
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kidnappings and even. might have to find a job. vendor has been ordered off the streets to stop selling sim cards. to. sell airtime for my daily income but i also do immobile money services when i live on the income from airtime till i get paid for mobile money which comes at the end of the month. banning the sale of airtime is going to affect me. it is. that they have to have. to register. to address. the government sees the thousands of car sales sim cards and credit to people who are often criminals. we have to restrict ourselves with the
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vendors that inlay sensed establishments in case there is any criminality in a fraud and there's need for disability you know who you are dealing with currently those people the whole cars all over the place doing all sorts of things so many of them i must creating but actually aiding and abetting crane according to the police criminals increasingly taking advantage of loopholes in the telecom sector. in a recently publicized crime the woman was kidnapped in the capital kampala suspects a say do have course studly contacted the victim's family using several form lines that the police could not trace only woods later she was found dead we found recently that some of them want to have one a minimum in a sim cards bridges and under one. name bid in yes
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what is the problem the problem could be bigger than what we think. you're going to has of a twenty four million phone subscribers but registering them has been a run yes in some incidents. according to the global association of mobile networks jessamy africa's forms of scripture would have grown to half a billion by two hundred twenty over very many sub-saharan african countries authorities of not beauty enough capacity to handle crane related to the development of the fust growing telecom industry. to asia now and it may look like unspoilt coastline but the tourists are taking their toll in thailand and a bid to halt environmental damage thai authorities of all the temporary closure of one of the country's most famous beaches maya bay which is best known for the leonardo dicaprio movie the big fish has been visited by millions but now this stretch of coast will be off limits for full months a year. tourism is
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a major factor in the thai economy the sector was responsible for over twelve percent of the country's gross domestic product last year. most tourists head to thailand's beaches so the decision to close my beach for four months will leave many visitors disappointed thai environmental say the move is essential. if it is too late to save. there is no but if we don't do something today it will be too late. thailand has restricted tourist sites before to protect its environment for example in twenty eleven dozens of diving sites were closed to protect coral reefs but with the number of foreign visitors expected to grow the government has a tricky job it needs to find the right balance between protecting the environment and drawing tourists. now to a country that's been dubbed the see me a citizen of the world in japan falling birthrights and high life expectancy. to
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a rapidly aging population costs this coupled with labor shortages in the. one nursing home to recruit unusual assistants. he thinks. it's exercise time much in tommy nursing home in tokyo today's instructor after a humanoid robot brought in as part of the program to address labor shortages in the care sector. for some residents interacting with the robots is liberation. i can communicate with them and i don't need to be too careful about the things that i say. i've got on the other hand if they were human beings i'd have to think first about what kind of people they are. you know.
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got a myth. those looking for more of a warm and fuzzy feeling can take care of pet robot dogs. i don't know if they're going to when i pad these robots for the first time in vocal when they moved around like real living animals and then i think their cues moment and they're going to know that. the nursing home has introduced a total of twenty robots since receiving funding from tokyo's metropolitan government back in twenty thirteen as well as offering residents company they also relieve workers a physical tasks such forms of assistance are likely to become more commonplace as japanese society ages. people over sixty five now account for well over a quarter of the population. with the birthrate remaining stubbornly low the number is only set to rise. with a shortage of human care workers robots could soon become a regular nursing home fixture even if they're not in everyone's choice of
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