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a bit more by paying them for their discarded glass and german farmers facing these 3rd straight disappointing harvests. welcome to the program the race is on for tick tock and with oracle there seems to be another contender willing to take over the video services operations in the us canada australia and new zealand according to a financial times of core of the enterprise software giant preliminary talks with tick tocks chinese parent company by stands u.s. president trump has threatened to ban the tick tock app in the united states over spying allegations if by dan's retains ownership microsoft and twitter are also interested in acquiring parts of the company. let's bring in our new york correspondent. louise what would oracle a business software companies see in

a video app beloved by teenagers. out sea. 7 creatures then even at 1st sight that there are there are not many events in ages between oracle and tic toc it's it to whoever ends up buying the us operations will gain access to around 100000000 users and data in oracle's a case of by putting tick tocks data out when it severs the company might be probably able to open doors to new businesses in all other industries and perhaps directly competing with facebook or a snap of the software giant does not have a consumer facing social media or b.t.o. business and on top of that oracle has a struggle to find new business revenues as i am and so microsoft and google or google keep dominate in the cloud computing market while there are other contenders here microsoft and twitter what are oracle's chances in really striking

a deal. i would say. bigger than twitter says sensing it has a much a better ability to finance that multi-billion deal and he's a macho bigger company also it's a co-founder lottery recent easing good terms with the president trump on the other side though it currently microsoft is the only company that has officially stated it's interesting tick-tock and has engaging and negotiations longer than the last $24.00 to take giant acquisition makes a lot of sense and strategically and it can't afford an operation like these either alone or with the others but there are also concerns of both that because of its operations in continental china and to trust issues at the end big tech it's getting even bigger causalities thanks for now but do stay with us. yours retailer wal-mart posted its biggest growth in online sales in the 2nd quarter as shoppers cashed in stimulus checks and stepped up purchases of electronics online sales

jumped 97 percent and same store sales surged 9 percent now wal-mart hopes to continue momentum by adding a membership service which is set to compete with amazon prime. wholesale who is back to you in new york a pandemic boost for wal-mart's business what did people on wall street make of that earnings report. said definitely a positive fan of wal-mart has shown it can phase that amazon in dion langrishe hillary now in times of need but also keep its dominance in in physical retail as for now though both companies and investors say it concerns a moving forward comes from a consumer spending drop in stimulus checks that dimension and additional employment benefits run out that's why there is pressure keeps mounting for

legislators in d.c. and the white house to agree finally on wanting something that seems still far away and campos i think if you can risk not only 40 economic recovery here in the u.s. but also for retailers such as what mark did on the correspondent course in the ways there are in new york thank you for. plastic waste is a problem all over the world and the situation and ghana is no different where only 2 percent of discarded goods are being recycled as the 1st country in africa gone i just recently joined the global initiative to end plastic pollution and a group of entrepreneurs is doing their bit and earning some cash along the way by putting recycling at people's fingertips. just quickly and their waste collectors on their own and based company is always on call to pick up its clients plastic waste and not only does their recycling firm collect their waste it also pays for

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construction the hotel and restaurant sectors were hit hardest one bright spot was the mining industry which was. growing demand from china. british retailer marks and spencer has announced plans to cut $7000.00 jobs in the low to the beleaguered retail sector which dropped sharply during the pandemic the company expects many of the reductions will be through voluntary leave and early retirement norway's sovereign wealth fund lost $21000000000.00 in the 1st half of the year as the coronavirus battered global markets the fund was hit hard by its investment in oil companies whose value plunged a 3rd this year as demand for crude oil tumbled. it is august high time high summer and high time for farmers to bring in the harvest and for the 3rd year in a row german farmers yields are below average but recent years of drought are and

they will get. the 1st batches of wheat from the new harvest are being loaded there for export german wheat is a success on the global market although as a niche product the best seller class a wheat which has a protein content of over 12 percent and is best used for baking bread. agricultural products trader andreas krentz is looking for this type of wheat his customers are mostly based in rich oil producing countries in the persian gulf. many could do well in the arab world where we know from experience that significantly higher wheat quality is required. farmer detail has always made class a wheat but now he doubts whether he can continue to deliver such quality in the future the reason new fertilizer regulations the law stipulates exactly how much nitrogen fertilizer he can use in his wheat fields near leipsic. the law aims to

reduce damage to the groundwater by reducing the amount of nitrogen fertilizer but to produce protein rich wheat the soil needs a lot of nitrogen. for has to use increasingly expensive machinery to comply with the regulations otherwise he could face stiff penalties. the farmer feels under pressure and is worried that his harvests will continue to decline. damage sequence that will cut our yield and then in a year's time it falls again that on. each year the yield is worse because the amount of nitrogen is calculated annually at all by these a shift of maced on the harvest minus 20 percent funding for the same. so it's like giving people or animals 20 percent less food after each way of the food if you know if this isn't good surely your the mood among farmers is terrible they're

worried that sooner or later the days of producing quality wheat will be over. and finally germany's largest power producer r w e has launched an online auction for one of its bucket wheel excavators the largest excavators of this type rise as much as 100 metres and away 14000 tonnes. pledged to phase of coal production by 2038 and is now focusing more attention on its. order lovely collector's item. thanks for watching ever so successfully.

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