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germany's biggest airline is gearing up for more strikes the info union that represents cabin crew has called on staff at lufthansa subsidiary german wings to stage walk for 3 days starting on monday it's the latest development in a long running dispute over pay and benefits a 2 day strike in november stranded thousands of passengers. on thursday the german cabin crew union had already threatened another round of strikes following what it called failed arbitration talks with lufthansa last weekend but they refused to say when or for which airlines finally the union announced that its members working at lufthansa subsidiary german wings would stop work for 72 hours starting on monday before said the decision to target the carriers subsidiary rather than disrupting the lufthansa group was a warning that if it fails to win concessions the limited industrial action could

be a precursor to full scale strikes targeting the parent company the long running dispute began over a demand for a 2 percent pay increase to cabin staff but has grown to incorporate other issues for accusers love times of failing to offer cabin crew clear perspectives under its plan to merge german wings roughly 30 aircraft and $1400.00 employees into flight operations of its may just subsidiary euro wings around 30 percent of your rowing's is scheduled flights starting in germany still carried out by its little sister german wings the 3 day strike is likely to affect some 230 flight starting in germany flights which euro wings had a lot to german wings. u.s. stocks have continued their strong performance after thursday's record breaking high as the benchmark s. and p. was just hasa a percentage point shy of latina its best year since 1997 this a day after the nasdaq crossed the 9000 point mark for the 1st time analysts

a robust best of spending strong u.s. economic data and hopes of an imminent trade deal between the united states and china are driving the highs. and to break down all the numbers that's crossed 98 of these financial correspondent jose luis de haro on wall street 3 lovely to think you heard they tell me what you think if driving all this optimism on wall street. i would say cave of their all several reasons i 1st wanted years ago to be continued so to be received and laid his holy days so those numbers are coming even stronger specially for online retailers on top of that we are in the middle of traditional center rally which since the 1950 s. push gains us and p. $500.00 to an average of 1.3 percent during the final 5 trading days of the year and because we are about to close the best year of for you a sacred year since 1907 we can say there is a clear case of. best or worst fear of losing out on the ongoing bullish market

which has been going on for the last dick. ok so phone no it big problem there was a what can you tell us about a strong data coming out of china today. this is the 2nd largest economy worldwide seems to be saying it's a slowdown may not produce us a downturn as previously feared. china's industrial firms grew of the pasta space in november while washington and beijing are in close touch to figure out when to assign to face one of the trade agreement so us for no it seems a trade war that contain the policy good for the chinese economy and also for the rest of the world kate. hi there and germany's car sector is looking back on a challenging year many of the biggest car makers and plans to scrap sizes of jobs

but that didn't stop then on some individual current yes from coming out with the star inventions. is this what the world was waiting for. ladies and gentlemen that knew or should tai-chi. the 1st fully electric porsche starting price $105000.00 euros the porsche take on is the biggest competition the tesla model s. says seeing yes. yes the tesla in november test lone bale their latest number and the electric truck with apparently on break the windows at least that's what it said in the cyber truck brochure yeah it didn't work out quite that way. but oh well. maybe i was a little too hard. with this for demonstration purposes or was the cyber truck still a work in progress. garnering fewer headlines was the ingenious invention of a ukrainian beekeeper in june he presented the world's 1st homemade electric car

that he drives through his beehives every day. not one for the big car shows like the annual geneva motor show here french luxury modified sure but gosh he presented what is supposedly the most expensive car in the world complete with handmade wheel rims it will set on a buyer's back 16000000 euros what makes this race race is one of watch this is for sure. not to compete the opposite end of the spectrum is v.w. 1st purely electric car the id 3 which is aimed at the mosque marcus. the idea 3 is opening the next chapter. fulfilling vision to become actually 0 emission brands by 2050. 0 emission goals had already been achieved in january by a russian schoolteacher. exactly one horsepower for 0 emissions. the

horse drawn car stands for a global trend making new out of old. falso in london was this morris minor built in 1953 which used to run on petrol but is now always plugged in at night it hails from a startup that makes its money by retrofitting old cars. why scrub them when there isn't actually anything wrong with them except for the power train. the only thing classic cars con to yet is fly over inventors are working on this maybe 2020 will be the year the flying car goes into mass production. and staying with cars turkey is planning to enter the global automobile market with a new electric vehicle turkish president bacha types are the one that wants the 1st prototype an electric sports utility vehicle under the tug brand name a consortium of 5 turkish companies will produce the car with some 3000000000 euros

of government funding so far turkey has never produced a passenger car of its own but ford right now and 20 also have factories there to do some cars for the european markets. now life in a rural russia can be hard many young people leave for jobs in the cities and those left behind often struggle but in one remote village in the urals an entrepreneur has had a sleaze idea if ordering people back. welcome to money tourists a small village in the year rules it's like many in russia and like so many it was threatened with becoming it ghost town only $20.00 of its houses have residence from a previous population of 500 only 50 remain. but then to sell arrived . gazelle says she might be small and looks like a boy but don't underestimate her she calls herself a social entrepreneur and is rarely without her phone flasher but it is pasha

greetings from the town and thanks to. a surrogate banks from mali to rush. a small thank you video for each customer because whoever orders jam from cruzeiro helps the village. fortune led them to the us it's not like people need to know that they're doing something good each person has buys becomes one of us an entire army of people who want to make a change. strawberry and raspberry jam from money to read are shipped across russia even single jars. they do everything themselves even cut the labels. and they produce tea from ingredients that grow in the area most people working here are retired they tell us they are all grandmothers. and they get to decide who can work here. they also make sweet spoons for cups of tea it's

their very own invention they use a syrup made from wild herbs and dried berries their newest variation include sea berries and cinnamon. a health food shop in moscow has just ordered 8000 spoons but. leno was so impressed by the changes she decided to move back to the village from the city she inherited this house this year and is fixing it up she'll soon move in with her husband and child. he just. everything changed for us when we can sell to him now we want to try it out we're fixing up the house and trying out village life and i think the don't. take. the house isn't large it has a small vestibule and 2 rooms says her grandparents built it and it is still sound she's hoping to find work gazelle says she needs a manager. at the workshop the delivery for the health food store in moscow is

getting ready to go the bush goes are in a great mood as usual. i'm. well one day run things and dependently of her then she will move on to the next village and create a start up there too. and that's it for me and the business team here in berlin for more ditech at our website that's detail the dot coms lost business you can also find us on social media we're on facebook and twitter we'll leave you with a quick look at global markets for me it's the buy and take him. large

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