the rebels has also driven an estimated two million people from their homes. after trying to travel by train in france good luck a massive strike is wreaking havoc there monica has more on that coming right up should. i. not go out and they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of these dictatorships. taking the stand global news that matters. made for mines. climate change so. waist

length. says. isn't it time for. eco africa people and projects that are changing our lives are meant for the better it's up to us to make a difference and let's inspire each other. to let it go beyond farming magazine. on d w. fraud's is plunged into a travel chaos thousands of commuters are stranded as rail workers start a series of strike set to last for three months the walkouts are part of growing resistance to president in modern plans to modernize the economy. also coming up spotify the world's biggest music streaming service is going public in new york

market correspondent has a word or two to say about the timing of this i.p.o. . getting into a town without a car in times of possible diesel bags hunding then opt for combo bikes as a fast and cheap alternative. come to d.w. business france is facing months of disruption as rail unions begin a strike to protest against president among women cost plans to overhaul the economy files of commuters had difficulties getting to work this morning after most trains were cancelled international routes are also affected and unions say this is just the beginning. tuesday morning at the gods are leon a major train station in paris. it's the first day of rolling strikes which are likely to continue for months. plus will think that this is catastrophic something

needs to be done we're victims we haven't done anything wrong we need to get to work like everyone else this is normal. france's national rail operator s.n.c.f. says the strike will halt eighty five percent of france's high speed trains and three out of four regional trains. he said i don't think we stuffed it every train station no direct trains a commuter was unwell and here i am heading to work and needing to rush away yesterday there's. the walkout is a serious test for french president to manuel maccollins reform agenda to protest these plans the country's four main rail unions are planning to strike two days a week through june but again i am reminding travelers to postpone their trips if possible if they didn't receive a text message confirming their train is running a full month and a fifth production will. come and it's not just train workers electricity gas and sanitation workers in france are also taking part. as a cause of

a straight away to our correspondent elise is in paris lisa how much disruption is this strike causing. well a lot rainy it crossed france and also at this train station behind me very few trains are running on certain train lines only one out of ten trains that is circulating and obviously the people that want to want to go to work are trying to get on the strain as we could see on the pictures this morning that you wishing earlier there was one train here at the train station behind me that was canceled at the last minute by many people who are hoping to get on that train and then get down get down on the tracks to crap cross over to another platform actually to get another train so it's grab a celtic although overall one must say the situation is rather calm lots of train stations across the country are rather deserted and those who can pass saying at

home and taking the car or taking the car to work of course which of course then leads to major traffic jams should imagine this is french president manuel merkel's first big challenge to his reform plans how much support is there for the rail workers. for the time being it's kind of half half half the population is supporting the re workers' strike and the other half are saying you know why are they doing this we should be able to get to work smoothly obviously we have to look at this in the long run this is a strike that is supposed to go on for three months so two days on three days off for three months and that will put a lot of strain on the transport network and also on french people's nerves so let's see what they say in a few weeks times time obviously for amanda marcotte this is very important he wants to show that he is able to reform the country also he wants to show this obviously to his european partners in order to push through his european reform plans as well right where you're saying that this that there's

a series of strikes planned over the next three months is that an indication of the rail unions thinking mccall is going to hold out. well yes and the government has said so his transport minister has repeated that in the media this morning he said we will not give in but the unions obviously hoping to win this fight and they're also hoping for a convergence of the different fights as you said earlier they're different strikes going on at the moment today but with different causes other sectors are asking for more privileges for higher wages and the hope of the unions is obviously that every day will come together and fight for common common cause so you say for example against new liberal reforms as they say so that more people across the country also could back these strikes and maybe later also demos and make actually the

government given all right lisa lewis in paris covering the rail strike there for us thank you so much. china's ambassador to the united states said that any new u.s. tariffs would draw countermeasures of the same proportion the fear of a full blown trade war between the world's two biggest economies continues to weigh on markets in frankfurt to germany's blue chip dax index dax is shedding about one percent investors are worried that a dispute between the two powerhouses could hurt and deal rail the entire global economy a fear that is shared in asia many stocks there are also traded lower today the shanghai composite index closed down about one percent. all right here's something exciting spotify the world's biggest music streaming service is going public in new york later today spotify was founded twelve years ago by the swedish company and it

has yes to yet to make a profit in twenty seventeen sales rose almost thirty nine percent to over four billion euros to growth came at a cost losses also mounted from five hundred thirty nine million euros to almost one and a quarter billion spotify is revenues come from users who pay to listen to music streamed directly from its internet platform company as a catalog of thirty five million songs to choose from and seventy one million subscribers so spotify is i.p.o. naturally is much anticipated but given the current market turmoil thanks to the u.s. china trade dispute is there's a good time to go public that's what i asked our stock market correspondent really bugs and is his answer. it's the worst possible time for such a move a the market conditions overall and then not animosity that fear that tech stocks

will further decline and will be more hard hit than perhaps standard chairs from the industrial sectors spotify a very controversial i.p.o. anyway is the new york stock exchange set a reference price of one hundred thirty two dollars but who knows which way the share will go when it opens because a lot of people fear too that the business model isn't all that substantial no profit yet that the company has ever recorded. i was reporting from frankfurt's more on spotify as i.p.o. in new york later today on d w business and here in germany diesel cars can be banned from in the cities that's how a court ruled in february so far however no municipality has made us all that option but they could especially when air pollution reaches on healthy levels commuters can always switch to public transport will but about delivery fee or handymen and they too have an alternative which is faster and cheaper than

a car. it is run of his world the forty nine year old is a joiner in cologne he tries to work environmentally sustainably easy enough with his role materials not so easy with his transport. so i want to say he's veto van and for my work i need one with a long distance murder trying to find somewhere to park it no one might face a city center driving. city traffic air pollution valves just decided to test a cargo bike for three months instead he's constantly out visiting his customers repairing doors and windows taking parts to construction sites. think you need the small jobs finished. but germany's aerospace center the d.l.r. scientist your hundreds agrees he hopes the skilled crafts and services trades will take to the cargo bike which could easily do up to forty percent of all short trips

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