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under a minute nic at the top of the auction. block . a. coach of british coffee going to. join linked to news from africa and the world store link to exception stories and discussions for money was a busy hour while with safety debited come smutty come join us on facebook the t.w. africa. where home. when your family is scattered across the globe. with the answer to the delayed sleep
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the book was a journey back to the roots of government mug shots traveling from somalia to rub a little. one on earth into systems. global family starts generally twenty five on t.w. . protests the former boss heads to court in tokyo where he fully denies accusations he committed tax fraud. also on the program can u.s. companies afford to lose valuable chinese customers because of the trade war officials continue their negotiations in beijing. and while the trade war overshadows the world's biggest consumer electronics show we take a look at what is. for business on the
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w. thank you for joining us he was a true legend in the car business hailed worldwide as a visionary executed credited with turning nissan into an industry powerhouse that was until cardinals go and found himself in handcuffs charged with financial crisis two months on he's finally had his first hearing in court but his lawyers say it could be another half year before his case. cameras ready they will waiting but. never had a chance to make his case to the media the police delivered him to the district court handcuffed and with a rope around his waist. was described as thin he is set to last more than ten kilos over his last two months in prison the charges tax avoidance and under reporting his salary and documents prepared for investors. and you know when you
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can't get out of the mr go and concluded his statement saying he is innocent and there was no evidence or grounds but has been wrongly accused and detained him and thought he must. industry sources have long speculated whether the charges against poland were real or whether there was foul play go on has forged an alliance between french comic of an old and japanese competitor sneed son a mitsubishi for years he has been criticised for giving the north too much power within the group some in the industry say the future of the company is at stake. there are three possibilities for the future of the alliance there's the status quo but that seems difficult to envision today they might go further into the alliance with an outright merger or takeover of one of the two companies all will see a rebalancing but today who can say what will happen perhaps we have reached the limits of this alliance as it was conceived at the beginning that. for now carlos
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gone is out at both japanese automakers he is still chief executive of one no. corporate news now and amazon has surpassed microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company in the u.s. it's a further sign that a seesaw in stock market continues to reshuffle corporate america is taking or really let loose volatility on global equity markets has seen technology and internet stocks jockeying for leadership for weeks now but shares in e-commerce behemoths amazon jumped three point four percent on monday on data favorable to retailers that pushed it ahead of microsoft by market capitalization so amazon is now the world's largest public company where seven hundred ninety seven billion dollars more than the g.d.p. of switzerland that now puts microsoft in second position after the shuffle. alphabet the parent company of google is now in third and apple which topped the
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list for years has slipped into fourth place the i phone maker had a market capitalization of one point one trillion dollars only last fall but shares nosedive last week when it lowered its sales outlook based on we could have manned in china. until a struggling giant takes a giant samsung delivered grim earnings figures on tuesday as of log a big drop in profits they were down by nearly one third in the last quarter it's the first profit drop in two years the south korean smartphone maker is now facing tough chinese on petition for the nand for its components has softened up the trade tensions between the u.s. and china samsung also warned that business this forger won't live up to its really projections. and samsung is one of the big exhibitors at the consumer electronics show currently going on in las vegas whether self driving self rolling
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or self walking it's all there a number a growing or a growing number rather of traditionally non tech companies have also set up show at c.e.o.'s trying to give their product line a digital make over. i catching self driving cars connected to the driver's home device is one of the trends from last week that even and for b.m.w. an opportunity to go the extra mile presenting its driver less motorcycles for the first time in public legal we think there's going to be demand for is certainly motorcycle that's connected to firemen but it also helps riders be better riders and also safer runners the stuff lee the main the main thing minus kids robots the rubble and on the folder. shareable electric skateboards smog beauty devices it's one of the biggest tech shows featuring startups alongside to establish companies c.s. is expected to draw more than one hundred eighteen thousand visitors hoping for
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a chance to see the kind of tech likely to dominate the scene suggest the themes we expect to emerge this week are artificial intelligence can see a lot of products powered or enabled by ai. force recognition and facial recognition things like that it's a five g. connectivity which is one hundred times faster than four g. l.t.e. . with forty five hundred exhibitors the show is expecting an hour program. and the overall tends to be optimistic on tech console problems that's what the industry's message seems to be this year in las vegas. however we know the trade war between the u.s. and china is heavily impacting the tech sector we asked our correspondent at the show in las vegas to tell us more about the mood there the organizers of the show warned that their rubber positive outlook can change significantly if
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a trade war with china escalates as saying that stereotypes can leads to higher prices to consumers have to pay for smartphones and c.v.s. and as you said we have already seen significant drop in sales of your. products in china reported by apple and of are firms and what we are seeing here unless a big. drop or a decrease of a few fewer chinese merchants here twenty percent decrease and this is quite remarkable for an if then death has been jokingly referred to as the chinese electronics show so people here are concerned but nevertheless the outlook is rather optimistic with sales expected to be growing in twenty nineteen. american and chinese for presented arabs are continuing their discussions about trade relations the stakes for companies from both countries are high goods from
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chinese mass production have long conquered shelves of western electronics and toy stores u.s. brands like starbucks gillette and nike have devoted customers in china but the prolonged discord among political leaders could erode the soil base. the chinese buy more consumer products from america than they do from any other foreign country including japan and south korea american brands have grown to be such a status symbol in china's growing middle class that many cannot imagine life without the. young could no more trade between the two countries has reached far and wide people in both countries cannot live without the other nations products the us cannot live without china and china cannot live without us products either. but that sentiment is tempered by the growing popularity of chinese made products which often cost only a fraction of their u.s. competitor. if agreements cannot be made i will have my own preference of choice
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in terms of famous brands of us close to me their prices are already pretty expensive if trade agreements are cooperation cannot be made i will prefer to buy our local brands instead. yeah. but at the moment china remains vital to many u.s. brands that could give china the upper hand in this week's negotiations with american trade representatives who cannot afford to have the chinese stop filling up on u.s. products. the world's largest car maker is about to begin selling green energy has created a berlin based subsidiary called ele to sell it tricity from renewable energy sources the plan is to offer charging stations for electric vehicles in homes and in parking lots the w. says the company will also sell household electricity all of it from carbon free sources to push compliments the car makers the new focus on mobility.
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we spoke to our financial correspondent only in frankfurt and asked him what the move actually means for v.w. and they can certainly use some help from the green faction if you will at the moment it is all marketing though you're right on that basically it's public relations because all the things that volkswagen wants to establish aren't there yet but if it does it right and if it does with a lot of drive then it will be part of answering all those questions that people who are skeptical of a car is have about the whole concept where do you charge is the energy that i'm putting into the car really clean how do i pay for it and how is the infrastructure going to look at folks who are going to make the go with that then it will be her. give an answer to putting the cars on the road. and before we go germany is the best place for a career as an ex-pat according to the latest h.s.b.c. ex-pat explorer survey which ranks countries based on various criteria they include
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finance career progression work life balance and quality of life europe's largest economy moved up from third place last year to the top twenty nineteen list the top five was rounded up by the brain the u.k. they u.a.e. and switzerland germany which faces a lack of skilled labor top the list because it offers more career opportunities for aggression and fulfillment but the real big surprise is the u.k. despite britain's impending exit from the e.u. it was ranked high for making career of that h.s.b.c. says london still remains an international melting pot where than twenty thousand ex-pats took part in the service. and that's all for this edition of thank you very much for. the.
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