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my grandmother was used to work as a swimming instructor sure now her 2 children of 3 daughters were just. huge story take part sheriff in for migrants. the world's biggest mobile technology exhibition is cancelled concerns over the new coronavirus force the mobile world congress to close its doors this year it's a blow to the industry and to host city barcelona. also on the show air bus takes a big loss for 29 teams as that 3600000000 euro corruption penalty finally heads its books. this is your business report i'm stephen beard sibylla it's good to have you with us the world's biggest mobile and telecommunications trade show the mobile
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world congress has been cancelled a growing number of exhibitors had already announced their withdrawals citing concerns about the coronavirus the cancellation is a major blow for the tech sector which uses the annual event to launch new products and it's also a blow for host city barcelona. the organizers of the mobile world congress had tried to allay fears with increased disinfection measures on site recommending that attendees don't shake hands and even banning visitors travelling from who by province where the corona virus was 1st discovered. but a slew of major tech players announced they would not attend the event including amazon facebook sony telecom and l.g. by wednesday a 3rd of all reservations had been cancelled the organizers felt they had to pull the plug and cancel the event the spanish tourism sector had tried to prevent that by stressing how important the congress is.
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the mobile world congress represents around 500000000 euros in 3 to 4 days it gives us the feeling that if not the biggest it is the best week for barcelona. now it's going to be one of the worst many taxi drivers fear it's a bankruptcy what about that or not it affects barcelona so much also in the hotel sector. the 4 day event scheduled for the end of february typically draws more than $100000.00 attendees companies usually launch new products there and showcase their latest gadgets that business will now have to be conducted by other means. and that coronaviruses also hitting the target industry hard especially in asia where chinese visitors are critical for many resorts airlines and businesses correspondent flora newish sent us this report from thailand. the routine is
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comforting to printed too much try every morning at 8 he prepares his boat for the day the vessel can carry up to 12 passengers and ferry them from the holiday center to tire to the island of kona. property times 5 boats but for the last few weeks most of them have been going nowhere. we've barely had any customers since the chinese have not been allowed to travel out of the country local people don't go off to the island very often most foreigners are gone we boat operators don't know if we will survive if. not so long ago each of his boats made the trip at least 2 times a day thanks largely to chinese tourists many of the groups booked in advance to but now getting every single customer is a struggle profit says sales have dropped by 70 percent in the last 3 weeks. before the outbreak of the coronavirus nearly one in every 3 visitors to thailand
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came from china so they were a key market today tiny tourists or 30 say only about $3000.00 chinese are arriving per day the average used to be 30000 other players in the tourism sector are also feeling the pressure. we have really big effective not only for chinese it's our thought the feeling of the traveler about their not in the in the mode of travelling also effective for the high travel far out of the world now if we have a big effective for the last couple or week we have a drop about they went through but then drop of. many of the lounges on the beaches of petaca are empty that may be good news for tourists from europe or india but it's a disaster for retailers and restaurant owners. not long ago up to 300 people used to come here every day to eat now there are maybe only 20 i said some
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of my staff home because there isn't enough work for them but i can't just fire them some of them have been with me for 30 years the situation is really serious. meanwhile printed too much china has been waiting for hours for customers on the pia but to no avail he's now hoping for help from the government which last week announced some tax relief for the tourism sector if the situation doesn't improve and the chinese stay away from the long term profit and his business may soon be shipwrecked. over the aviation industry now where air bus has reported a loss of almost 1400000000 euros for last year and that's due to a massive 3600000000 euro fund the european aerospace company had to pay to settle a longstanding corruption investigation on the outside air bus revenues did increase by almost 7000000000 euros due to a sharp increase in commercial aircraft deliveries.
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and for more on this i'm joined by our initial could aviation expert at i u v 8 university of applied sciences he joins me from bonn. arda together if you look at this this massive penalty 3600000000 euros there are also some contract penalties related to the a 400 m. . that's the penalties is there a bright side to this at all. i would say for forever as maybe just definitely they will probably have closed the door and you know silently cheer to each other. it's just you know one less problem to deal with. the the fraud issue has been dragging on for 4 years and it's just so good to have it out in to be able to concentrate on the today let's not forget it was a decade old problem. in other words this was most likely price then by vespers already they knew this was coming i want to ask you boeing's problems are always in the background of the aerospace industry right now has air bust been able to
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benefit at all from what's going on with the $737.00 max. in the short run surprisingly little because of the full auto books now have $7000.00 somewhat airplanes on the order so and they have operational problems to putting them out so actually they're under a lot of stress themselves from their own success i would say. last year that put out double as much planes or as many planes as boeing was able to put out because of the mix to the aster so that's a mixed picture in the long term of course all of this strengthens airbus position because boeing is concentrating on fixing the problem and so. stated here as well designing the future so any day of the grounding of the macs we can boeing and gives air was a competitive edge in the long term yes. i don't want to stay with us when we look at one more news item related to air bus the company using the singapore air show
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to unveil a prototype of what it believes could be the passenger jet of the future now the maverick is a scale model of what's known as a blended wing body aircraft airbus planes the revolutionary design would give travelers a totally new experience and be 20 percent more fuel efficient than the passenger jets we use today. and back to our initial this idea fuel efficiency this idea of. needing to basically at the center of this is carbon emissions in one sense and i want to ask you has the aviation industry really had to consider and grapple with this issue of the missions as much as say the auto industry has where it's obviously in a race to come up with 5 alternatives do we see them something similar in the aviation industry. very much and i would say much earlier own because we have to be aware of one thing fuel is 25 to 30 percent of the cost base of any airline so it's
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in the best. interest and profit interest to keep fuel costs down that means efficiency so. aircraft manufacturers have been reducing weight working with carbon fibers and better our aerodynamics 3 years jet engines are also much more efficient than they used to be overall i think the all industry everybody has contributed to 25 to 30 to 50 percent in fuel reduction and emission reduction over the past 20 years which is already a great success and there's nothing like that in the automotive industry however when we look at regulation on an international basis there's very little action it's very slow i put up the course he has scheme but it's you know it's full of loopholes and is good i would say as a compromise as a swiss cheese made by a butcher so that's where a lot more action needs to be seen to solve this global problem of emissions for just the education industry all right some more of an international regulatory
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scheme needed there for the aviation industry our nischelle aviation expert at u.b.s. university of applied sciences joining us from bonn thank you very much thank you. an estimated 7000000000 euros worth of brand new and used goods are destroyed every year in germany much of it from packages sent back to online retailers a law makers in the country are now trying to rein in that wastes. these photographs are a testament to our consumer society the show brand new christmas lights electric fires and books still in their original packing. goods that will never reach the consumer because they're destined to be destroyed. journalists discovered that a waste disposal company removes containers full of new goods from the site every week and takes them to be incinerated. into heat and is a productive valuable resource is going to every one of these products which are often small products made in se asia and shipped around the world and it's
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a come. these pictures come from this amazon site near humber amazon packs and posts around $1000.00 parcels a day here most are from 3rd party vendors who pay to store their goods at the site amazon takes care of sales and shipping. economist biarne as decker has carried out extensive research of the amazon business model according to as dekker if 3rd party vendors council their goods storage costs will eat up the profits and not take an idea and if an article hasn't been sold in a year then storage costs rose to 170 years picky. by then it's clear accompli profitable and then does a pressured tools destroying the goods and so on getting to it. amazon doesn't deny that new goods are being destroyed the company says it's a general problem in the industry but why can't the goods be donated the german retail federation says they would still have to pay sales tax and they want to change. fred saying in germany the chemical firm b.s.f.
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is building a new factory in the capital berlin to make electric car batteries the site in the state of bronze and berg will be based just 100 kilometers from tesla's 1st plan european gigafactory both sides are set to open in 2022 b.s.f. expects to make enough batteries a year to equip 400000 cars. and that's it for me and the business team here in berlin you can of course find out more about these and other business stories online at www dot com slash business and to check us out on facebook and stephen beardsley thanks for watching.
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a year as a soloist and as a guest conductor he talks about music on his own radio show he writes about it he's deeply political and he even calls himself a musical activist i'm a learn a lot more about him right after this. daniel hope one of his regular concerts in berlin playing an instrument that was made in 1742. for hope history comes alive through music. at a recent concert he spoke of his german jewish grandparents. my family came from berlin and they had to leave poland in 1038 so for me it's about going back and say it's a history more than politics is about history i think in remembering his.

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