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to buy and let. you watching the news live from berlin stephen beardsley's up next with business stick around to be right back. free to any foolish to try as it moved on to alex. thomson one day in the footsteps of the great we've. been here in. town the fleet street. 3 times wanted. to marry much alive. to such
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in the. making where exactly. was fun. lost cars culture history. travel. extremely worth a visit. germany's blue chip index welcomes a newcomer so why is a food delivery service now rubbing shoulders with audi dos and b.m.w. to bring you up to speed. and turkey's tourism sector is cautiously optimistic as visitor numbers pick up but many businesses say they're running out of time. on show feel like you're living in the past well there's a flea market just for you. blowing welcome to the show i'm stephen beers in berlin . good to have with us the company behind video sharing platform ted talk is suing
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the u.s. government over a decision to ban the app in the country chinese owned by dance claims the executive orders by president donald trump are groundless given the firm's data protection measures and that the company has had no chance to be heard by dancers currently in discussions with u.s. companies microsoft and oracle for sale that would allow tech talk to continue operating in the country. and let's go to our new york our financial correspondent in new york korda. yes we talked about this case before everything going on around tech talk there's been an unusual amount of involvement from the u.s. president including a request for payment should this sale go through to $1.00 of these 2 companies just to talk have a case before it it clearly is highly unusual by the way i'm standing in front of district court in brooklyn and not in florida where their lawsuit actually of was
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filed here on monday you mentioned this fee this cut that the u.s. president is looking for from this potential deal to talk or the mother company by denser actually saying well that proves that it's not about the national security but that the whole case is politicized and if we look back what happened last year for example when we also had your lawsuits from you all by another chinese companies both so lawsuits by the way it got dropped or it dismissed by the court but because then you i was seen as a telecommunications companies so different laws might apply and that's also what to tick talk is hinting at that they are not a telecommunication company but for me it's very difficult to to say how good the chances for the tick tock are to get the whole cases settled in courts especially before this deadline by mid september. all right speaking of that deadline what does this court case mean for these discussions with microsoft and oracle. well
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what we know so far is that 3 u.s. companies the health of outside investors showed an interest you already mentioned to microsoft that might have for the best chances but also all rico and twitter what experts are saying is that it actually would be very helpful for those companies let's say microsoft and if the case would just get settled in court it would take a lot of them on certainty away because you don't really want to be trapped between the 2 superpowers china and the united states i'm struggling so what experts are saying it would be good that this cage would be soft i'm in front of a court but as i mentioned time is there's an essence and i'm not sure if we will have a final ruling before mid september all right yes quarter with the latest from new york thank you and over to germany now where delivery hero
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is the newest member of the country's blue chip dax index replacing the insolvent and scandal ridden wire card the food delivery firm boasts broad reach and growing revenues but it has yet to turn a profit let's take a look. delivery hero paints itself as the disruptive dynamic new player in the global food delivery market 9 years after it was founded. in 40 countries and it's just driven its way on to frankfurt dax i think this is a very good step for for tech companies in general in europe and especially in germany and we hope to be followed by a lot of tech companies in the future and to prove that that's the right place to be for tech companies and to have at some point giants like what you see in the u.s. and in china. delivery hero replaces a company that was also once lauded as the hip new kid on the block online payment wire card but that german success story ended with
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a scandal driven fall from grace delivery hero is keen to avoid any comparisons if we are a different business model we are a different industry we start with compliance and compliance departments back to 2016 already been generous so we take compliance extremely serves. you know so i think the only thing you grab in common is where german company beers in germany in august index. despite an established global footprint delivery hero is yet to deliver a profit it says its focus is on growth and will be for the next year. and out of some of the other global business stories making headlines. britain's biggest retail grocery chain tesco is creating $16000.00 permanent jobs to meet surging online grocery demand through the coronavirus pandemic most of the jobs will be taken by temporary staff recruited during the pandemic just goes online
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sales have doubled in the crisis to around $7000000000.00. american social media giant facebook has reached an agreement with the french government to pay $106000000.00 euros about $125000000.00 u.s. dollars in back taxes going back to 2009 the tech giant also agreed to begin paying taxes on advertising sales to french companies significantly raising its tax burden in the country. while tourism hotspots around the world have been hit by the corona virus pandemic and turkey is no exception but tourism industry leaders believe the sector could still generate a healthy 15000000000 dollars this year they see it slowly recovering despite the ongoing pandemic with the rising number of international arrivals. like at 1st glance the stumble looks as lively as it did before the coronavirus crisis. but if you talk to shopkeepers in the touristy areas you'll only he complains there
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are still hardly any foreign visitors and the frustration is growing by the day. we hear from morning till evening but we sell very little sometimes just one severe a day sure that. all of us have debts we aren't selling anything we can't pay our rent so it's a lost season ottilie lost because even luxury hotels like the parapet are in crisis mode because of the pandemic and into. the building is one of the stumbles landmarks and manager john carroll proudly shows me how beautiful it is. the hotel was billed 130 years ago for the passengers of the legendary orient express today guests are staying in rooms once graced by emperor as presidents and movie stars. or agatha christie who wrote crime novels here.
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at the moment though most of the $115.00 rooms disinfected and abandoned. $21000.00 was a very successful year for. it was the changing between 7 the person 2 and 95 per cent about them at the start of 2000 the. rise of the epidemic pandemic. first. person 10 percent to 0 the coronavirus crisis has even brought hardship to the para palace a historic institution known the world over and just like this iconic hotel scores of businesses all across turkey are suffering from the slump in tourism brought on by the pandemic the situation has been particularly dramatic on the tank usually riviera and tell us the long beach is almost deserted for months most hotels closed . since early august holiday makers have been returning mainly from russia
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because the government there is allowing flights to tacky again. some action has returned to and tell us pools and to towel owners now hope they can extend the summer season far into autumn. at the para palace they also hope for better times the hotel survived 2 world war was it might also survive within demick. but everyone here knows it will take time before tourists come back in large numbers and marvel at the sunset over east from the terrace of the pair a palace. of linen member of billiards a classic cars huge flea market in russia bringing together thousands of artifacts many from soviet era visitors come to shop or just to relive a little bit of the past. memories of a bygone era can be found at the living history retro market in the village of our
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oil west of moscow this is the 1st market of its kind in the region from medals to badges soviet id documents and military uniforms some of the items on sale here are veritable antiques there's a trinkets imbued with the spirit of soviet history. everything here is more than 30 years old that is we try to keep things within the ear of the soviet union that means you can find here things that cost 10 roubles and things of custom 1000000. fully and antique markets are common in russia but what makes this one standout is the automobile section the classic car section of the market which includes western models has been running for 2 months during which time the whole 3 cars have been sold in 1981 mercedes the soviet made larger some are a fun under soviet era s.u.v. . the living history retro markets are set to continue through september if the
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good weather holds. and speaking of old treasures of group of teenagers in israel unearthed 425 gold coins while volunteering on an archaeological dig the clay vessel in which they were found was over a 1000 years old at the time they were buried the 24 carat gold coins were enough to buy a luxury home in one of the best neighborhoods the finders are not keepers however they've had to hand the coins over to the israeli antiquities authority. or write quite a fine that's it for me and the business team as always thanks for watching.
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is true. is for. a total of 2020250th anniversary here on. this is state of the unions africa on the program today the storm in a twist of post south africa's finance minister has been reprimanded for calling all exempt as president on twitter to any trace and to mobilize the president at the will didn't explain why he fired the country's central bank governor the way he has since backtracked but what is to be made off this development in zambia. and a public health mile still has been w.h.o. is said to decay africa polio.
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