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ringback. google's profits hold strong despite the coronavirus and demi but parent company alphabets latest figures show the crisis has slashed spending on top of the times of. italian restaurant bar and club owners take to the streets saying they may not survive another man. thousands of german container ship cruise was
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stuck out to sing because of measures to hear their stories. this is the doing business on robots in berlin welcome along. well streets may be under lock down but that hasn't stopped the flow of financial results coming from the u.s. as biggest companies some major players publish their figures on tuesday painting a clearer picture of the true impact of the coronavirus pandemic for more on this let's go to our financial correspondent who's in new york in fact outside the google offices in new york what i can say that we've had some results from their parent company alpha that's how are they doing. well i mean nobody is really working in this building behind me google said that probably early june people might be leaving home office again if we look at the past quarter in the 1st 2 months off the quarter business actually went to very well but then in the 3rd
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month of the quarter that's when things started to become a dicey especially if you look at the business and that's 80 percent of googled revenue a lot of the travel companies for example they're really cutting back care quite a bit they're spending so google itself is by the way saying that they're cutting their marketing expenses as a well but they did beat revenue estimates the stock in after hours trading up by about 3 and a half percent but we will see the full extent of the corona in picked in the now in the quarter that just started now. some of the major pharmaceuticals fans have also been posting their results and this global health crisis is improving is positive for them as we might expect it. well in the past quarter business went pretty well for pfizer and merck those came out with their earnings results are also 3 m. also
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a company of that partly seltzer medical equipment maf for example so we had was one of the biggest winner in the dollar jones industrial average here on tuesday but if you look at specially merck they cut their estimates for the reminder of the here one problem for merck is that they sell a lot of medications a lot of drugs through doctors but nobody really goes to the doctors at this moment if they don't have to and so that could actually negatively impacted business of some of the bigger pharmaceutical companies also pfizer out with results good for the pos quarter but also that stock traded at bit lower yeah thanks for bringing us the latest financial correspondent in new york court. now thousands of italian restaurant bar and club are protesting over the country's plans to ease its lockdown they've been told they won't be able to reopen that for at least another month between now and then restaurant bar owners and club bosses
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fear that businesses could close. the bleak sight of empty tables silent kitchens sealed off pizza ovens initially after the shuddering death toll the closure of vision is normally vibrant bars and cafes has been one of the toughest aspects of the corona virus pandemic. the government says restaurants and bars may reopen on june 1st but owners say that's too far away in tuscany restaurateurs are giving up their keys in protest with an effect because this is only a small part of the keys collected. we're very concerned about our survival our employees and our supply chain. half of all bars cafes and restaurants could go bankrupt then the everyday health without money is half an illness tonight we'll turn on the lights to illuminate the situation for our employees who are still
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without a redundancy fund. we call for help for rents and bills we're living with uncertainty . more than 75000 restaurants are united in protest. that's all i would like to reopen safely while offering customers a quality service the pleasure of being together and enjoying the food said. the pizza ovens are serving takeaway for now but the restaurants hope to be serving customers in-house as soon as possible. the restaurants and shops also closed in pakistan because of the corona virus outbreak that's coincided with the muslim holy month of ramadan time for fasting but also a time for a big feasts after the sun goes down and some tech savvy entrepreneurs taking advantage of the need a hassle free food look at this. new orders just arrived 29 year olds are in consols have traditionally cooked food using social media this way she can earn
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money during the crisis and doesn't have to leave home. now that restaurants are closed more people are ordering online from horror as well. if you have confidence in yourself and are expert at using social media you can do all these things by maintaining social distancing you have no need to go outside if you have knowledge about social media social media is an opportunity as one can make contact with every person in town you can use instagram you can do everything by yourself. a driver delivers the meals to customers all throughout karachi they are happy to let someone else shop and do the cooking for them they minimize once a month order the tradition of food cost say as today i have no time to cook myself because of the hectic schedule secondly it is the advent of ramadan. and with humid weather it is very convenient if you don't want to cook anything you can place your
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order online. online food orders are bound to remain popular says the. restaurants in karachi will be closed for several weeks due to the culprit 19 pandemic. now the closed borders in quarantine measures brought on by the corona virus have left thousands trapped on the world's oceans container ships crews are among them as the goods they carry all gratefully welcomed when they reach their destinations the people company then own that journey and. the essen express is on its way from europe to asia it belongs to the german line happy lloyd and despite the coronavirus crisis it's carrying a full load of around $13000.00 intermodal containers. the crew are often at sea for months it's a hard life and a pandemic is making their lives even harder. most countries along the route have
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imposed quarantine and they are not making an exception for sailors so that means it's a struggle with red tape every time the ship enters port to load and unload its cargo and that even though there haven't been any known cases of coronavirus up toward a container ship. many ports are demanding individual declarations from everyone onboard as to whether they've had contact with a person infected with corona virus whether they feel well or whether they have a high temperature these are pretty drastic measures for many of the crew members. as if you know. what's worse the crew are not allowed to leave the ship usually they can go ashore at any port along the route but for now that's not something authorized he's are allowing for the 26 crew members that means no break
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and no relief from life on board. yes i did most with shore leave impossible it's getting more and more difficult for the crew members being forced to stay here without a break they really miss coming ashore for a few hours being able to see something new have a coffee somewhere get a haircut or buy a few things. the essen express carries plenty of food onboard so that nothing runs short the ship is on route from the mediterranean sea through the suez canal across the indian ocean to china these pictures were taken by the crew when in porsche like here in singapore the containers are allowed to leave but not the people that also means crew changes are no longer possible and the crew are forced to work nonstop. isn't a nice day it's not unusual for them to be on board for the 9 months now they've
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been forced to extend their employment contracts due to travel restrictions and the lack of opportunities to come home and even their home countries banning them from returning at all was slowly getting to the point that these questionable limitations actually pose a security risk the shipping industry is in uncharted waters because of the coronavirus but one thing is clear the crews who make these ships run cannot run full steam ahead for ever. now look at some of the other business stories making news around the world around $600.00 garment factories have reopened in bangladesh nearly a month after they were ordered to close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus the country has the world's 2nd largest clothing industry employing about $4000000.00 workers export some $35000000000.00 worth of comments each year. british airways has announced plans to cut up to $12000.00 jobs in response to the
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corona virus outbreak carrier says it's likely to take years for the sector to recover meanwhile scandinavian airlines s.a.'s is laying off up to $5000.00 full time employees and iceland that is cutting 2000. finally the lego group and universal music have agreed to an exclusive partnership to develop products to help children express that creativity companies say the products will haunt us what they call the mental and creative benefits of music playing with lego planning to launch a new line of items next year and is encouraging the next generation musicians and create their that's it for me on the business team here and you can get more from is up to them you know com slash business was on face.
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