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along. now the grounding of the 737 max has already made for a very bad year for boeing on wednesday the plane maker had to make yet another unwelcome announcement about the model boeing says it's found unwanted daybreak in the fuel tanks of some of the 737 maxa's that are waiting to be delivered to airlines around the world the problem was discovered during maintenance of the planes which had been built since the model was grounded last march boeing says it has now made adjustments to its processes to avoid stay very getting into the tanks before this sealed. well let's get more on this from our correspondent jose luis de haro who joins us from wall street jose what's the reaction been there to this latest yet another setback for boeing. rob for some investors it's a kind of. warning it is a game in a jury need to credibility and the safety of its claims that we've all read current

issue for the company it's important to keep in mind that last year for example the u.s. air force had to hold twice deliveries of its tanker billed by boeing because if the pound debris in a closer compartment about 10 years ago the company admitted that the same issue was likely to cause a fire short board dreamliner which forced the grounding for several months and here we are again now with the $737.00 max model which its safety is a cause of major concern and has shaken not only finances but also the rest of the industry from airlines to suppliers yeah problems for boeing problems for its supply is like g.e. another massive american company we've heard that they're potentially looking for work elsewhere what can you tell us about that. as for no and according to u.s. media it seems that g.e.

is trying to lure airbus design and so an engineer for its a 330 neil model displaying a computer directly with the 787 dreamliner boeing has decided to decrease output because of weaker demand for such a big airplanes confirm a new engine from g.e. it will threaten directly rolls royce which is currently the only engine option on the airbus a model but let's not forget that g.e. has already increased production of engines for airbus a rival model to boring to 737 mikes since last march iraq you know it's not great for p.r. at least to see a big american company like g.e. having to reach out to a european rival to get work like that thanks for joining us jose luis to hire oh in new york. and speaking of airbus the european play maker says it plans to cut almost 2400 jobs from its defense space division before the end of next year the

department employees a total of 34000 people worldwide hours of slowing activity for the space unit and delays to key defense projects last week was announced a 1200000000 euro fine from its a 400 m. military transport of project control contributed to a 1000000000 euro loss over all for 2019. now british businesses have been told to get used to the idea of a world without cheap labor the u.k. government has announced its prospects of immigration plans under a new points based system low skilled workers from around the world would not be allowed it. when british prime minister boris johnson looks out to sea one thing he envisions is a harder border for migrants wanting to work in the u.k. . home secretary pretty patel describes his skin as a radical shake up with basically redefines our immigration policy so the brightest

in the best people with skills need to come to the u.k. and we will no longer have the roots for cheap low skilled labor that obviously has dominated immigration on our labor market for far too long in this country. the new proposal would establish a points system with marks handed down based in english language proficiency skills qualifications current salaries and professions. only applicants with enough points would be granted a coveted u.k. work permit however many u.k. industries such as health care rely on overseas workers to do the heavy lifting and warned they could face labor shortages should the proposal be adopted it says if they fail that the level of your salary the term move how valuable your well really is and what skills you have but we know that there are people in the relatively low paid occupations like social class who are skilled and fireball and then you

15 make a keep these people out johnson's new immigration scheme still needs parliamentary approval but with a wide conservative majority approval is all but guaranteed. dr telecom has reported record profits of 29000 of 3900000000 euros making last year the most successful in its history mostly it has its u.s. markets to thank subsidiary team obama tracked millions of new customers a takeover of team a competitor sprint also recently received the approval of a federal court in the u.s. . now the e.u. is already taking an aggressive approach to the likes of facebook and google with its anti-trust investigations and its tech tax plans but now the european union says it wants to beat the american web made just their own game by competing with them on ai. but brussels free university the european commission's president meets

artificial intelligence head set of u.n. homes by a computer tomography image belonging to a real patient. we need clarity about data and especially in health research data is a bottleneck the european commission is supportive it's out to catch up in the race against the u.s. internet giants millions of europeans of hand of them their personal data but europe aims to benefit from the next wave of battle for industries that are stopped now and us will be to make it better for european industry is sitting on a wealth of data that could be shared in a continent wide mega cloud more data for better artificial intelligence just the smart machines take over more decisions about we humans comes all the way from nice to have to life or death so it is important to try to understand what is the kind of risk that we want to deal with on monday facebook's mark

zuckerberg was in brussels. but he found little solace the. it's not us that need to adapt to distract from it is that films that need good luck to you have sounds like a clear call to arms in reality not official intelligence is anything books again. the ugandan government is battling a shortage of funds as it tries to deal with a swarm of locusts this ravaging harvests on top of that as a lack of airplanes to spray and protect crops as lead officials to having to take extraordinary measures the movie with the ugandan army is on the move but it's armed with portable past sprayers rather than rifles the enemy billions of doesn't locusts the swarms originally came from kenya now they are wreaking havoc and then ugandan province of. this is quite big it's bigger than the other 2 that.

is quite big it's covered in give it a beginner from what people are telling me. that is a boat it's. 100. so it's quite a big. according to the un's world food program a swarm of this size can eat as much food as 35000 people in a day the food security of up to 13000000 people is threatened by the plague and those with the least resources are most at risk such a small farmers or shepherds. when i saw these locusts yesterday i remembered some years back when the locusts came here before. they had everything green and it took just one month to spread them before they left. our cattle had no grass to feed on so we are happy that the government is

chasing them away no before the grass starts to grow again. it is a race against time the adult locusts are due to way more access and if after it's to destroy the swarm don't work the un has warned that there could be $500.00 times as many locusts by june ugandans resources are limited there are no spray planes protective clothing pesticides logistics it all costs money. the un had asked governments for $76000000.00 to control the locust spread in east africa but had only received about $20000000.00 as a february 10th. finally the oil trading hub of singapore says it's going to get electricity and aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 the low lying island nation which faces rising sea levels and says it's committed

to work against climate change singapore joins norway and the u.k. in setting a target to take combustion engines off the streets as one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a car or father a few electric vehicles on the roads a newly adopted budget includes measures to encourage green mobility clothing registration rebate for fully electric cars and taxes. and that's all from me in the business teamhair in the end you can find more from those are website com slash business we're also on facebook and twitter thanks michel.

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