siemens to be. praised a saudi arabia's vision of a high tech future but after the killing of a saudi journalist he says business as usual is no longer an option also coming up the u.s. federal reserve surprises no one keeping rates on hold with a high kicks pated expected play to eat at the year. and schools of mysterious wooden towers pop up all over hungry journalists blame corruption and gary and i want. this is your business update on how to hold free and glad you could join me well german industrial powerhouse siemens posted a mixed bag of results on thursday net profit for the fiscal year remained just over six billion euros that's

a slight increase in the previous year the company's had some setbacks recently in securing new orders vying for a multi-billion euro in order to build a power grid in iraq a job the company might use to us can best be a g.e. off to the white house intervene there's also problems in saudi arabia stevens was very late to counsel their attendance at the recent riyadh investment for most companies who dropped out off to the murder of a saudi journalist. homes the men's smallish shares dropped twenty percent over the course of this year. and earlier today my colleague as hard as spoke with siemens c.e.o. joke asr about a couple of particular geopolitical risks including saudi arabia and where the case his decision to pull out of a saudi investor conference over the murder all of the journalists cost as even a twenty billion dollars major power plant deal in the kingdom. the fact is that we

did not sign a significant deal which was worth north of twenty billion that's true but obviously you know. things go as they go and i've always made it clear we had a very reliable partner competent partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia we have more than thirty million people mostly young people in the kingdom there has been a lot of reforms which have been initiated so i think we need to look at all factors the things which really really well in the kim going to be shunted the thirty is a very very promising. vision and such a concept going forward so there is a lot of cool things but there also have been talk things and i mean let's face it with the way what we have seen and heard about what happened in turkey is just not something which has moved into ordinary course of business which is a kind of conspiracy there's gotta be trust is this is what what the kingdom has

promised to do it will we'll see how it goes. staying in in the in the regions even it was also in the running for thirteen billion dollars infrastructure project to electrify iraq again there are reports you lost that deal all parts of it at least to general electric after don't trump intervened can you confirm that. a lot of stories being written about this topic the fact of the matter is that siemens has had a very very comprehensive compelling concept not just about rebuilding iraq in terms of electrification but also help the country in training in education with the dual apprenticeship program of the german industry we also promised to help the people in the freed up so for basic health care so there was a very comprehensive concept which reached to cover men that the customer liked

a lot and obviously it has been. unusual special forces have been intervening maybe out of good reasons that's not my churchmen and to make on the other hand look i mean she even says in the united states it was almost sixty thousand people creating another one hundred fifty thousand indirect jobs so we are a massive economic force in the country we are training people there we be to revenues of more than twenty billion dollars so we are first and foremost also an american company which i believe deserves respect and a level playing field we are actually asking for it we're going to talk you know mr k.'s are talking about the u.s. and you being very strong there how much money will the iran sanctions cost you've already won down some of your business that have you. well. the after the after the implementation dave years ago we have been studying opus li

our contacts and. with our customers in iran now with the unilateral move from the united states through to bail out of the the agreement we obviously need to see what that is who you are you know respecting the same since we are very very very clear on that matter and that's exactly what we do we over the years are unfortunate that there was a unilateral bail out of the agreement but it is what it is we need to deal with it and we are going to deal with it. that's exactly what we do and look at the economic impact is not really available to siemens as the money goes much more concerned about a further let's say it's collation on on on the conflict in the middle east which is the last place receipts yet another conflict seen in c.e.o.

joe case i thank you very much for joining us your case is speaking to my colleague says that while the u.s. federal reserve kept the benchmark lending rate unchanged on thursday the move highlighting the continued strong performance all for the economy but it also pointed to a slowdown in business investments the fates noted solid job gains for winning on employment and growing household spending they were so signaled that there may be further rate royce after the rate rise before the end of the year. and i want to bring in our financial correspondent now jose luis and jose luis no rate rise this time around how is the market reacting to that and what all investor expectations for the next meeting. reaction from investors helen i was a pretty muted as there was no press conference or any update on economic projections that said as it is there right now the central bank is ready to

increase rates for the fourth time this year or next said december still being from president tromso criticism of freddie's looking up full employment and salaries that are growing at its fastest phase the nearly a decade are signs that that will justify such a move and avoid a danger was overheating of the u.s. economy and will continue next year even as a tax cut fades and economic growth moderates right now investors are ready for at least two hikes in two thousand and nineteen while the federal reserve projects three something that will call down financial conditions and probably stock markets but for sure will not sit well with the white house. or on wall street for us thanks as ever for your insights. google says it will change the way i handle sexual harassment claims google c.e.o. summed up his shine promise more transparency in how allegations are handled as a week after twenty thousand cuban employees around the world stage to walk out to

protest against what they call the culture of complicity and dismissiveness they'll be no more mandatory operations sexual harassment and sexual assault claims enabling complainants to go public or c in future employees will also have to complete compulsory sexual harassment training. mysterious wooden towers cropping up across hungry and nobody knows why the hungaroring government's trying to silence journalists who keep asking questions and anti corruption activists suspect the towers are just another example of the local fest of a funds. a citizen's initiative is collecting signatures in budapest. they're petitioning for a european public prosecutor. the hungary in government is still refusing to accept independent investigations from brussels but the pressure is growing with every signature. doing this because the e.u.

money in hungary gets stolen. and there's no institution in hungary to deal with these cases of fraud the sale effect at credit yeah. look at this and i get that i support a european public prosecutor. without one these thieves will live their whole lives never being brought to justice. in the village of to quote the european anti fraud office olaf is already investigating and e.u. project is thought to have been declared far more expensive than it was eleven wooden towers were erected using e.u. money at seventy thousand euros per tower they were apparently built to promote tourism but there's no hotel or restaurant in sight hardly anyone in the village will speak to us and then someone agrees but wants to remain anonymous the towers are of no use to anyone here he tells us people just made money off them people who

initiated the project. it seems to have set a precedent a total of one hundred eleven similar structures have sprung up across hungary the journalist who uncovered the case has been blacklisted by the hungary and government. behavior of my past that the initiative to build the towers came from a group of villagers everyone involved received around twelve thousand euros but of forrester also got a considerable sum for construction costs and the rest went to an employee in the ministry like. hungry is sinking further into a pit of corruption the organization transparency international ranks hungry at number sixty six tide would send. the money pouring in from brussels is only making the problem worse according to variety by the from independent think tank budapest institute. and the utopian agency all of that is in charge of setting

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