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for the future of. the courtroom for. w. . much of the good. news from africa the more old story link to exception stories and discussion from these eats and why when safety deputed comes to join us on facebook. for. the. sputtering sales outs tariffs catch up with iconic us motorcycle maker harley davidson provoking a speedy response from u.s. president donald trump spoiler alert he was not amused. to wake up and smell the coffee because starbucks is of be only. game in town chinese chain
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lock in coffee is taking on the u.s. java giant all the way to the nasdaq. and when one man's trash is a nobody's treasure richer nations still export their ways to poorer countries but that's gotten harder look at australia struggle to clean up its own. harley davidson has reported a stall in quarterly profits as it struggles to deal with the impact of tariffs and slow sales the motorcycle makers profits twenty six percent to around one hundred twenty eight million dollars the new sparked an angry response from u.s. president donald trump who blamed europe for the company's poor performance and valid to quote reciprocate the steep tariffs on harley davidson bikes last year as a reaction to us today. and aluminum.
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joining me now is our financial correspondent host. luis good to see you know so this is a bit of a shift in tone for donald trump the first advocated for a boycott of the harley's after harvey said it was shifting production to overseas now it's valid to retaliate on its behalf so tell us jose luis what's he thinking there. maybe but by imposing reeves on european cars they could be the kind of rich really asian that we could see but it's a it's too soon to tell. but it's true that a change of heart when it comes to harley davidson will probably help her deal already difficult trade negotiations with the european union and the goal is to avoid any kind of targets on the european auto industry and try to lower or early may that trade barriers on industrial goods as a whole but ministration isn't present to include agriculture us part of any agreement so the harley davidson issue is just another dropping debacle that seems
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unjustified actually the company said it how to move jobs overseas they do use to sense that decision to move production of motorcycles to their plant in thailand is part of our planet to also supported costumers in the southeast of asia contrary to what trump suggested no jobs no jobs that have been impacted here in the u.s. as a result of these actions now briefly if you can't handle east is it fair do you think to blame the e.u. tariffs for the slowdown in sales for the heart of the as we know harley sales are down in the u.s. as well it is not fair to blame the european targets young old sense a day kompany has been a struggling with the drop in sales here in the u.s. for quite a bit as the young the younger buyers seem less interested in big mortar cycles than previous generations let's at least out there for us on wall street thank you very much. now to a story of
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a brewing competition between two coffee chain beijing based lucking coffee is taking on a global coffee empire starbucks no mean feat considering that starbucks opens a new branch in china every fifteen hours in a bid to raise capital to contest that market dominance lucking is taking the battle public the nasdaq listing. the look and coffee start up came out of nowhere staking a claim in a rapidly urbanizing china with the spread so fueled energy for one starbucks reign supreme suddenly there's a host of looking outlets in china's new shopping malls and business districts to beijing based coffee chain wants to go public in the u.s. looking as applied to list on the nasdaq exchange plans to raise a red three hundred million dollars in the i.p.o. since june twenty seventeen look at has expanded into two thousand three hundred seventy stores in twenty eight cities with backing from investors including the singapore sovereign wealth fund g.i.c.
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and china international capital corp by the end of this year look at names to become the largest coffee network in china in terms of number of stores looking is taking aim at starbucks which is opened up three thousand six hundred stores across one hundred fifty cities in china are we competing with starbucks probably to some extent we don't really care if the demand is coming from new coffee drinkers or from starbucks coffee drinkers we do want to make sure that people are happy they come back to us and they buy more product. look inside later cashless and designed for fast pick up as well as delivery with an app that rushes out deliveries in about eighteen minutes. so i don't think there's too much difference in the taste starbucks and look ins pretty much the same. there's no big out there both delicious. the super new to. the coffee fueled expansion and high marketing costs have seen its losses explode last year looking to one hundred twenty five million dollars in sales but racked up
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a loss of two hundred forty one million dollars. now to some of the other global business stories making headlines around the world. oil prices continue to their upward climb on tuesday after the us renewed sanction threats against iranian oil buyers one point a barrel of brant crude hit a six month high of seventy four dollars and seventy cents analysts are worried that curbing iran's oil experts will further tighten global supply at a time of political instability in several oil producing nations. twitter smashed all expectations last quarter by tripling profits the microblogging service made one hundred ninety one million dollars in the first three months of twenty nineteen compared to just sixty one million a year ago twitter chief jack dorsey credited moves to weed out abusive and fake content on the site with boosting its attractiveness to advertisers.
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british lawmakers are back after a brief break from brags that following the easter holiday cross party talks to find consensus on britain's departure from that you have resumed although with little hope of a breakthrough meanwhile on the continent of the u.k.'s trading partners are still preparing for any possible scenario the next report comes from europe's biggest port rather doubt. that portion of rostered down is a major hub for trade between the u.k. and the rest of europe. the authorities here have already spent some one point five million euros preparing for breakfast. in dutch customs boss non-net found shelvin has been inundated with interview requests well we estimated it when there's a deal when there's a trade agreement we need at least seven hundred to fifty new people that's because there will be a border here if there's
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a no deal granted we will need over nine hundred new stop employees at the dutch customs. distortions want to get a better idea of what goods are coming in to do so they're employing new technology including scams that can monitor the contents of trucks and trains. as europe's largest poor swatter downtowns afford to turn a blind diet to britain's upcoming to parch or from the ease you for some documents embracing digital innovations to digital chain watch solution the digital border solution you can see so do our dearest players in the logistics chain for you know to further data towards the porch so that in the porch we can easly your fuel costs and formalities and when you arrive to the port that the barrier will be open it's got a closed. goods destined for nonnie you countries
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a group that will soon include the u.k. need to be registered online in advance companies that failed to do so aren't permitted to get their cargo anywhere near the ships. no matter what kind of threats it is on the cards here at the port of rotterdam the priority is to make the transition as smooth as possible. closer to years ago china announced it would no longer import the world's waste until that point it had been the top recycler of imported trash the band really directed the flow. of global garbage elsewhere into other countries like indonesia and malaysia who then set up their own restrictions which rerouted the imports elsewhere and so on making it clear to some exporting countries that at least some trash has to be tackled at home we take you now to australia. australia has a stinky problem after depending on chinese infrastructure for over twenty years there's
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just too much rubbish to handle with fighting the wife's process. we thought of the solution the word of the time is circular economy and this business does just that up cycling old plastic and grinding it down to granular it to build new asphalt roads. we recover resources and we re-use them so we're not just a race saka in a national endeavor australia searching for more concepts to keep precious resources from going to the landfill this waste to energy plant is one of them. what we're basically doing here is converting food wise nubile energy using the gases that's produced when you stop the wise to voltage and. the plant can process thirty three thousand tonnes of rubbish a year creating enough energy to power nearly seven hundred fifty thousand homes
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but building waste to energy stations is to turn the capital intensive critics are demanding similar legislation as in the e.u. where waste disposal is only seen as a last resort and so the cost of putting your wife's into a landfill is much higher than it is even astride you. because almost it well every option it's a bottle of bullets an alternative to landfill is more expensive excessive waste is not just a mistrial in problem but a global issue more countries will need to move towards a circular economy to keep the earth sustainable for over seven and a half billion people. and that's it for me in the business team and berlin will leave you now with this quick check on global markets thank you so much for watching.
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