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disappearance will receive a cash prize worth $100000.00 along with continued support from the organization and a specially designed sculpture made from recycled methane from gun destruction programs in central america. you're watching did news up next is business with. more headlines coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget the website is there for all the lightest. dot com for now i'm asking you how thanks watch. my 1st vice like most sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by this notion for something as simple as learning how to ride a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me as them and. finally they gave up and went on
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buying me on my side and returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls than writing advice and now i want to meet those women back home who are down by their duties and social norms and inform them about the basic rights my name is the amount of people and i am more that's easy to. move. a reshuffle at one of the world's most valuable companies parents alfabet says goodbye to larry page uncertain of grimness top executives and the point. that the chart as the new boss will tell you what that promotion means for the future of the company. also on the show the global. industry is on the concept of
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a colossal transformation yes one of germany's top managers if it's a threat to german automakers. and its trolls week in amsterdam we sent our reporter all the students along for a closer look at latest and coolest groener. for business on the w. i'm you know together with us the founders of google are stepping down as c.e.o. and president of its parent company alphabet their e page editor grinned famously said of the search engine of the raj in california back in 1998 since then they become 2 of the richest men in the world with a combined net worth of more than $100000000000.00 the remaining on the alphabet board google chiefs underpaid shar will step up to also be the c.e.o. of the parent company. right let's find out more with the double financial correspondent here in new york hi it's good to see you well the google stock went
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up on the news so walk us through what this actually means in terms of changes at google. does sound a bit like the clocks are getting turned back in 2050 in the holding company alphabet got created and under that roof we had google on one side led by. google was the search engine engine pretty much stalled for about 99 percent of revenue and then we had the other bets the moon shot projects like go south driving cars health care projects and drones and a lot of other venues but all of those have not been profitable so now there is this turn that is not just head of a group but also of the anti or holding company alphabet now some are saying that china has a horrible task ahead why is that. well some people actually call it the worst
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job in silicon valley he has a lot to deal with 1st of all there are. probes of there is political pressure they have been protests from employees and then on top of it he has to decide what's going to happen with those not profitable moonchild projects the other bets will some of those ideas just to be vanished or he has to make the decision what to do with it and then at the same time britain and page still have the majority of the voting rights so he also still has to report to the 2 of them even if they said all they're going to give him some advice and lots of love so we will see help dealing with this but wall street in general seem to be pleased with this move the stock was up by almost 2 percent for the year the alphabet stock is up by about 24 percent that is pretty good but underperforms the broader technology
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sector i expect ations there for google thank you very much it's called the new york and we stay in the united states america's food and drug administration insists it was right to issue warnings about certain cosmetic products by johnson and johnson in october the products including baby powder had tested positive for as best tests by johnson and johnson where apparently negative for as best us but the f.d.a. says a specialist fibers are not evenly dispersed throughout a powder product and stands by its findings the dispute comes as reports say the f.d.a. was too cozy with the industry for decades norinco repeated warnings about as best as intel. the head of the association of the german automotive industry says the sector must become more competitive and faster on its feet if it wants to survive a difficult moment and not to said in a year and press conference that sales on employment in the german car industry
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will continue to fall in 2020 amid slowing global sales massive technological change in a turbulent trade environment and my colleague stephen beardsley had a chance to talk to matters after the event and asked him if the auto industry is facing an existential challenge you've identified the 3 major challenges you say are facing the german auto industry right now including the declining sales across the globe the technical challenges the massive amounts of vestments that are needed and of course the trade conflict which is really throwing everything off course would you say this is an existential challenge facing your industry at this moment . no it's not existential but it's it's a huge challenge and it's different to what we have seen in the past when we invented new innovations and board to market now it's really a structural change in the whole industry and all 3 challenges together at the same time and that makes it really a big management challenge and we are facing that and we are going to make it
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have a bit of breathing room at the moment from the threat of tariffs from the u.s. horse has been big on your agenda big on the automobile industries agenda is that something that's going to maintain are we going to avoid these tariffs how do you see that right now. our main objective is to avoid those tariffs and the 2nd is to come to a free trade agreement between the us in the e.u. because we have the automotive industry we don't need any tariffs we don't need any protection we are open for competition and we are strong enough to face competition but on the other hand there's no done deal it's not said that this may not come its combine now and we hope that this discussion and that could come up again i want to ask you about tesla of course the german auto industry has always said that tesla may be in front in terms of the pioneering for each autos but that once the weight in the scale the german auto industry was brought to bear that it would be able to
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mainstream e autos but now tesla is actually coming to berlin and it's been successful for almost a year already in terms of producing at mass volume does that mean the german auto industry is still playing catch up i will well coming any competitor because competition has always made us very strong globally and therefore if tesla comes to germany and becomes a competitor fine fine with us because as i said we are facing competition across the globe and we have always strong in this competition. now to some of the other business stories we're following for you the race for the supremacy of driverless car technology is heating up in california chinese start of auto xpect by e-commerce giant ali baba has applied to test self driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in the u.s. state this makes auto x. the 1st challenger to google's autonomous driving venture. instagram says new users now have to provide their birthdates so far they normally
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only have to say they are at least 13 years old the move could stab child safety legislation lawmakers and family groups in the u.s. britain and elsewhere say the af exposes children to inappropriate material. trump u.s. treasury secretary steven the new chin wants countries like france to suspend new taxes on global tech giants he prefers an agreement on international taxation the organization for economic cooperation and development or deep u.s. has threatened 100 percent tariffs and reprisal for france's digital tax on companies like amazon and google. and wanda has signed a deal with french soccer club. to show visit wanda logo on their banners and shirts how much want to pay for the 3 year deal has not been disclosed english club arsenal already have
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a similar arrangement with the rwandan government. and before we go from small and nimble to large and powerful there are multiple uses for drones as you know unfortunately not all of them are safe at the amsterdam drone week the industry meets to show off the latest innovations and discuss how to tackle the security issues as more and more robots take to the skies a reporter told christiane but it's went to check it out. the science fiction feeling continues as drones explore new areas even on the ground this inspection drone feels at home in our cities sewage pipes for example protected by a carbon fiber cage the majority of applications lies in the open sky however this drone as built to drop 8 boxes in hard to reach areas like the himalayas without putting a pilot in danger but commercial drones are now pushing into our cities research
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company gartner expects over a half 1000000 commercial drones that work globally in 2020 a rise of 50 percent we are busy with fire fighting so if you have a big fire and you have a drone and you can see what happens and you can be much more effective in fighting this fire the other field for example is when it comes to eventing you have to control my sis of people and then it comes in very handy if you have a drone safety is the number one topic at drone week provided by drones but also safety from drones this radar detects approaching drones near airports hoping to prevent collisions with planes what we are missing mostly is the space which is the navigation system that will allow drones to operate in complex environments and also several drones to operate in the same bit of a space we need to have a a digital system that allows them to talk to each other avoid them colliding many cities have pretty much banned citizens from using drones because they are only
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just figuring out how to make unmanned flying vehicles work in the urban environment and really the small version of man's dream to fly but not everyone has a professional trainer with them like i do right now and the reckless private drone use has already put limitations on where a drone is allowed to take off. taking off with this right now in an urban area would be breaking the law but next year as the e.u. introduces pilot licenses that may change because a license does come with certain rights and it may also mean more rights for private citizens to use the airspace. and that's all for business i'm taking off but you can see us next time or want to rely on the w dot com slash business week watch this and all of our shows thank you very much to next.
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to the conflict since it. is just 3 months since india has decided is a little have to change in kashmir my guest this week here in the book is jane fonda national vice president and one of the chief spokesman of the ruling. congress he also the judges of white french human rights violations in kashmir.
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cleaning lady vijay thanks. so much for a d.j. in a popular moscow clubs. by now. serena has 57 years old and her play list has almost exclusively electronic tracks how did it all start 4 years ago she tells her story on. 60 minutes on g w. it was the speech of his life perhaps his past certainly his most difficult the speech by colin tristen on december 19th 1989.
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shortly after the fall of the right of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mid east tense the crowd clamors for the german unity journalist peter allen borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the times most interesting. starts december 19th d.w. cut. 0 information silence it's hard not to see this is a blatant culbreath why the silence by the media in general in kashmir we are facing an undeclared war from across the western border is just 3 months since india decided that it all had to change in kashmir it tore up the region specials thank those and impose direct rule from delhi thousands of.

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