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digital investigators combed through the slaughter villagers they combine sources from trying to reconstruct what happened and to substantiate claims of crimes thanks to this video recording one of the soldiers who shot the young man is on trial now st. paul's forensics between it's part. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . the airbus a three eighty runs out of broadway production of the world's biggest airliner will grind to a halt in two years. also coming up online retail giant amazon cancels plans to build its second headquarters in new york to go live to our correspondent there for reactions. and kenya faces
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a shortage of flowers on valentine's day because growers are missing a key ingredient. welcome to d.w. business i'm joined on in berlin thanks for joining us european plane maker air bus is halting production of its super jumbo passenger jet the a three eighty after just over a decade the company had hoped the a three eighty would revolutionize air travel but airlines have been cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes cancelled orders from two key airlines pushed air bus to finally discontinue the model. it's the end of a rather short. barely a decade after the world's biggest pos and your jet first took to the air its maker is calling us today airbus had hoped the a three eighty she would squeeze that boeing seven four seven and revolutionize air travel. it was popular among
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passengers who gave it high marks for comfort space to quiet right but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just weren't willing to pay the muss of price tag to own the flying behemoth. at the company's annual press conference and to lose france airbus c.e.o. tom enders acknowledged the plane with. what we're seeing is. a large four engine aircraft and that is what it is i mean there's been speculation . for years that we were ten years to creating thing becomes clear we're probably at least ten years too late but the a three a she experienced trouble from the stars including tension between airbus is french and german management protracted production delays and cost overruns the decision to stop making the super jumbo in twenty twenty one could affect up to three thousand five hundred jobs.
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it's a great pity this is new territory for us the plane was unique in many ways to do. course it's a huge setback for airbus but i think we'll get through it we can do it together to . another project and orders in other areas with other aircraft crafts you have to get through. the demise of the a three a c. is likely to cost the plane maker more than four hundred sixty million euros in losses but the cost to the company's image could be gracious still. amazon has plans to open a new headquarters in new york the decision may have been fueled by opposition from some of the city's politicians but expressed misgivings about the tax incentives the online retail giant had been offered the move which comes after a year long search has spurred hopes that operations and other amazon locations
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like arlington virginia and nashville tennessee might be expanded instead. joining us now from wall street as our correspondent host san luis de haro hyla says so what's been the reaction to the scrap plans where you are. it's been a bittersweet juno but the amazon a stock prize did not suffer any big moves sense for the last days it's been rumored that the company would end up with. those who cheer does this season claim that the city is not going to accept jobs at any cost and both the city and the state they could find a better use of those three billion dollars in tax incentives offered to amazon a company that according to critics also in the streets a war zone opposes unions but by losing these headquarters plans to create twenty five thousand jobs and invest two point five billion dollars also banishes so does opportunities in real estate and all their business serious said here exceeding
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keeps a truck to take telling all the big tech companies as is the case of google. now in other news that we're also hearing that the u.s. commerce department is releasing a report that european car imports threaten national security all that actually mean for carmakers. these outcome should not come as a surprise us that fact that trump plans to declare a national emergency in exchange to avoid a new shutdown in washington and ease a specter of the department of commerce world said the basij to impose tariffs on foreign cars and. we'll have ninety days to decide if it goes ahead and imposes any tax or duty as he did last year with the steel and import screaming national security risks also he needs to choose from different options such as blanket twenty five percent covering all day out to industry imposing quarters or just targeting a specific areas such as electric vehicles what is true is that he will probably wait up until the last minute to decide conversations with europe and japan
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continue keeping things exciting jose luis de haro there for us thank you very much . it's not an easy time for french carmaker renault it reported a sharp drop in earnings amid a profit plunge at its japanese partner nissan it's a fresh challenge to an alliance already under pressure since its former architect or knows former boss carla scone was arrested in november his replacement is in japan to discuss the future of the partnership with nissan executives. the new chairman of french carmakers i know john dominique so now it is a man on a mission three months after his predecessor was arrested in tokyo on fraud charges it now falls on him to smooth relations with his company's japanese partners and save an alliance that could be in trouble. with my friends of the teams of senate c.n.n.
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very happy this morning. we will have testing. better for this is why we're very happy to be few thank you very much the alliance with renault ones helped save nissan from bankruptcy but some of the japanese firms executives screw dissatisfied with what they saw as an unequal partnership sin of is expected to soon assume the chairmanship of nissan but nissan says the concentration of power into one executive position is what helped carlos ghosn carrying out his alleged financial misconduct that's set to hang no further talks. nobody will say there are many different topics to discuss we've sent out but my responsibility is to talk about the future with him because we have nissan stakeholders and shareholders customers and employees to think about it. back at renault headquarters a presentation of the company's first financial results since the golden arrest and they've certainly been better in the past net profit last year plunged thirty seven
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percent from a record five point one billion euros the previous year hit by stringing profits at nissan thank you we were worried because the issue was to figure out how we could keep going. all responsibility for everyone here today is to carry on the work for all our clients our employees and our alliance with nissan tensions notwithstanding analysts agree the alliance has to stay in place becoming smaller won't help the carmakers take on huge rivals on the global market like toyota and folks working. one of the key reasons for the alliance in the first place. one out of eight german businesses with investments in the u.k. is planning to shift resources elsewhere in light of bragg's it that's the conclusion of a survey published today by the german chambers of commerce and industry that's up from last year back then one out of twelve businesses said they would move investments out of britain roughly one thousand five hundred businesses
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participated in the february questionnaire the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. at the end of march. if you're a florist felon times a day is likely to be the high point of your business calendar that's especially true in kenya the country is the world's fourth largest exporter of cut flowers after the netherlands colombia and ecuador over the past few years the industry has been posting double digit growth but a recent government decision to impose checks of ports has left many florists fearing the go from bloom to bust. there's hardly a better day to be a florist but here in the kenyan capital nairobi business appears to be wilting probably expecting that the business would get better but it would be close in the morning it hasn't been sold would i so you can compare it to the rest of the violent times the big business is about is a big deal so what's keeping customers the way higher prices for one growers in
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kenya primarily rely on imported first alights are from countries including germany and israel but a recent decision by the kenyan government to crack down on counterfeit products has led to the introduction of checks at ports that's all well and good but lack of infrastructure has led to delays meaning growers have been unable to get their hands on sufficient quantities of fertiliser. the port for more than five to six months and yet. depends on fertilizers because a lot of flowers is grown. and therefore the most difficult time for industrial canyons floral industry has been flourishing in recent years bringing in the equivalent of one point one billion dollars in twenty eighteen but if the delays at ports continue they'll no longer be much for told ground for growth. and before we let you go
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a valentine's rhyme roses are red violets are blue your employer may be sexist and it's gift choices for you were talking about h.s.b.c. a special valentine's day deal for the bank staff in hong kong has caused some consternation male employees for offer discounted laptops and gadgets while women were offered cut price vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliances the move it like to have a criticism from h.s.b.c. staff both in hong kong that's headquarters in the u.k. proving gender sensitivity may have been the better gift to give this valentine's day that's your business update i'm john el-gamal and berlin thank you for watching .
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today's tracks take the experience to another level a sense to him talk compose a. song. featured in many games just music is bound to cause problems for his fans he opens doors to. sounds good. oh sure that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w the first. hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world of culture i'm robin merrill and here is what's coming up today. we have a round up of music documentaries screening at the berlin international film festival including one featuring the late great queen of soul aretha franklin. and
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we meet american comic book artist jason lutes the author of a popular graphic novel set in the bayou era. but i'm going to begin with a quotation from the wall street journal from al jolson and mae west to princeton share the annals of popular entertainments are filled with inimitable figures into their ranks we aren't the german singer. i'm quote he and his problem. big stars here in europe and i'm making waves in america and elsewhere mike's rob is my guest in just a minute but first his music and according to. the very. best bob. woodward. and the plaster cast record classic tunes of the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's as well as their own compositions which sound convincingly as if they
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