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among the lucky few. this is doing business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. shares in air b.n. b. have more than doubled in value on their u.s. stock market debut they opened at $146.00 each valuing the company at over $100000000000.00 the i.p.o. marks an extraordinary turnaround for a which was badly damaged by the coronavirus pandemic. a doorbell montage rang in at b. and b.'s i.p.o. replacing the customary bell ringing ceremony when a firm goes public. after a difficult year for the company with travel restrictions hitting its business it was a relief for c.e.o. brian chesky to finally float the business on the nasdaq stock exchange to investors thank you for believing in us even when it wasn't always the obvious

thing to do. you know air b.n. b. is rooted in the fundamental idea that people are good and we're in this together in the end we are not just a company but a community and so now it makes sense that we take every republic so we can share air b.n. b. with more of the world the pandemic made getting to this point painful demand collapsed due to travel restrictions prompting the u.s. company to lay off a quarter of its staff revenue shrank in the 3rd quarter to 1300000000 dollars 18 percent less than the year before but air b.n. b. slashed costs pushing up net profit in the 3rd quarter to 2 119000000 dollars the only time that abyan b. has ever turned a profit. huge company was helped by the easing of travel restrictions during the summer as customers turned to apartments over hotels for holidays and business travel the company was founded in 2008 and is one of the most popular travel

companies worldwide with around 7000000 listings in 220 countries still abyan b. is not welcome everywhere there's an increasing number of protests like here in spain residents say holiday lettings push up their rent they claim they're being pushed out of their neighborhoods by abbey and be the company may now be public but plenty of challenges still lie ahead let's cross to our financial correspondent in new york court and discuss this a bit more and more than doubling in share price on day one this is an extraordinary day view. isn't it. it's breathtaking no doubt about it the company now is worth about $100000000000.00 back in the spring the company's value dropped to $18000000000.00 and now air b.n. b. is worth more than all of the big chains like hilton the hyatt or marriott combined

in that for a company that says in this prospectus that it actually never might be profitable they had a profit here or there but for this year so far they have a loss of about $700000000.00 a b. and b. it did profit recently that travel assisting closer at home renting cabins entire houses and that for a longer period of time rather than staying in a hotel but that the stock price doubled and now we see this almost $100000000000.00 valuation that clearly is quite a remarkable yeah and this just as to what's been a remarkable year in terms of what is it about 2020 that brought us to the record heights we've had. you know well i mean what happened is that was the pandemic that central banks all over the globe even pump more money into the system we're seeing negative rates or 0 rates and that actually brings a lot of liquidity and people keep buying everything what's on the market pending

on the metric of 2020 has been a record year for i.p.o.'s so far here in the u.s. companies raised about $150000000000.00 and we still have a couple of more i.p.o.'s coming in the next couple of days what also happened by the way is that more of it younger investors altie also jumped on the market was online brokers like a robin hood to where you can trade to raise the role commissions and especially those investors that tend to buy stuff that they know like door dish where we had this big i.p.o. on wednesday or stocks of companies like air b.n. b. that so those younger investors are very it well familiar with t.c.s. to kyung. in new york thanks for joining us. by the european central bank is expanding its already massive monetary stimulus program as the pandemics impact on the or as an economy drags on the e.c.b. is adding an extra $500000000000.00 euros to its bond buying fund taking the total

pot to $1.00 trillion it's also keeping interest rates at the historic lows the message is simple christine legarde ones eurozone governments and banks to know that she has their back telling them not to worry about rising debt levels reassuring them that borrowing costs will stay low for a very long time. preserving favorable financing conditions over the pandemic period will help to reduce uncertainty and bulls to confidence thereby encouraging consumer spending and business investment and ultimately underpinning the economic recovery and helping to offset the downward impact of the pandemic on the projected path of inflation the e.c.b. is helping markets through expectant demick emergency purchase program or pep it

was started in march carrying a volume of 750000000000 euro then increased by 600000000000 in june now the e.c.b. adds another 500000000000 bringing the total for the stimulus package to 1.85 trillion euros expected to last until march 2022 the frankfurt based central bank promises more emergency bond buying further providing cheap liquidity hoping that it results in renewed spending with government and corporations investing as much as they can to work themselves out of the deepest economic crisis in decades now of some of the other business stories making the news the e.u. has agreed to extend sanctions against russia for a further 6 months the blockade originally introduced measures against energy arms and financial sectors to punish russia or is an exaggeration crimea. and france's find dougal 100000000 euros an amazon 35000000 over breaches relating to

advertising cookies the country's digital privacy watchdog said the companies put the small data on uses computers without their consent. now any country get through the pandemic relatively unscathed well one of the most likely candidates is your acquire the small south american nation appears to be reaping the benefits of low unemployment a fair health system and years of state investment in welfare. europe why has had less than 100 deaths caused by the corona virus and just a few 1000 cases borders with its neighbors remained closed though and infections have risen sharply again. in the spring schools and universities were closed along with shops. but now the streets are getting busy again. many people voluntarily wear masks in public there's still a need for caution but there's also an obvious sense of relief that things are not

worse than there. at the past 2 research institute the mood is upbeat when the pandemic began they were able to respond immediately with nationwide testing. test kits came from these laboratories they said the approach taken by the government has helped. we're not i think one of the big advantages and poor guy compared to other countries was that both the president and disc or on a virus team were supported our scientists right from the start of so that the scientists were then able to make decisions in good time for decades europe has invested in its welfare state and that appears to be paying off now in the crisis. the country is home to around 3500000 people in poverty is definitely an issue in some areas and impossible to overlook in the capital. still the mayor of montevideo is proud of the city and says here too everybody has access to health care that's.

why i have why has transformed its public health service over the past 15 years now in this emergency it's exactly this system that's playing a huge role. in this video has the best health service of any city in the whole of latin america. i mean you've got to do. the deal but i feel my whole family lives in montevideo and they've been enjoying meeting regularly with relatives and friends again. so what do they think is the secret of your boys relative success in the crisis so far. perhaps it's a different mutation of the fibrous that we have that means the cases aren't as bad as in europe. perhaps it's the climate yet in the c. c i have no way there must be some other reason. a few months ago when they had to stay in quarantine they never thought their lives would improve again so quickly.

and finally over a 1000 companies from 60 countries have taken part in the middle east's biggest tech event do you buy one of the few major events take place in person rather than virtually from dancing robots to flying taxis the future was on display out. of his it is good take a trip to the up. uncanny valley mate. jennifer you can see here who claims to be 34 from london and enjoys singing are also some dancing robots who perform the traditional and the raw take down any part of their work the job i watch without that's all for this edition of the business and so next time you buy.

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production. all over sos are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. this is d w news africa coming up on the program demand is high on supply is not but in terms of infrastructure how many countries on the continent are ready to receive on the box and need people like and school with 19 also coming up. jubilation in pots of our crops are gone this president. went out of monday's elections was this an n.b.c. has rejected the result seems to call. playing

the name is eddie mike a junior comes to the program. now do you think to really fight over 19 the continent of must vaccinate 60 percent of its population that's according to africa's center for disease control but it will need about 1500000000 do says the vaccine and proper infrastructure to achieve that there are growing concerns that countries won't receive enough dozes and up there is not enough capacity for rollout this is their spies the world health organization's kovacs initiative to ensure access of low income countries like malawi took over 19 vaccines here in the southern malawi people are waiting to get a desk it killed 16 jab but they're concerned that when the promising career in a vaccine finally arrive they may be at the back of the line. that it would i mean

they're not going to have 19 has affected every country if they choose to start with a few countries only it means people in other countries left to wait will have died by the time the vaccine reaches dum. what i've elated doesn't have the capacity to handle the vaccine on its own it would have been better if a non-governmental organization gave a hand to make sure that everyone gets the all important vaccine and i think that is that i think about every 4th. the country already has an effective vaccine program called expanded program on immunization or e.p.i. but the ban tick fires and modern of vaccines which promise 95 percent efficacy require ultra cold storage something that can provide. the kind of equipment that many countries including malawi it's not that out of court the kind of equipment so as we're doing our assessment will look at that but

however we still don't know what a vaccine is going to come into the country. the oxford astra zeneca vaccine seems more promising it can be transported at standard refrigerator conditions and stored for up to 6 months authorities here are hopeful about a possible covert $1000.00 exene roll out in the near future. as a country where ready because a. program already these sort of facilities and malawi is one of those countries in the on the continent that does well in this immunization program so we have infrastructure in place already you know the you know the region that we have warehouses that can keep this one thing the health minister hopes malawi's 18000000 citizens will start getting their jobs by the middle of next year. but africa's center for disease control says a much bigger challenge is the entire continent that will need one and

a half $1000000000.00 this exene. from on this here is viral or just professor barry shoop he's the chairman of south africa's minister advisory committee on the corner of ours vaccine development hello and welcome said now what are the major challenges in distributing covert 1000 vaccines across africa. the main problem in distributing it is 1st of all storage. it's you know one of the vaccines as you probably know requires very altered fusing stories out mana 70 that would not be practical in africa in fact in africa the only practical vaccines for stories considered to be those that can be stored in the already refrigerator temperature should hold for the whole continent that's number one number 2 of course is vaccine reach in many parts of africa including south africa they are also the country which will also borrows for example and to get vaccine right to

the delivery point is going to be quite a challenge that's a challenge with conventional that scene program to show many good towards infants and children and it's going to be a lot more of a challenge of course trying to get through to the entire population and number 3 is all those also trying to define who are the co-morbidities because initially of course is not to be the axing for everybody we need to define who are the priority groups they will agree the front on health care workers with and they already and then we come down to the next group which of those will but it is underlie illnesses and they also priority groups but how to find them out to dinner. circumscribe who's going to be those people is what's going to be a major distribution challenge and also of course the just ticks of getting to the countries of the problem ok so. a lot of challenges but we know the what's the way around them. i mean the way around them is that it's got to be will

play and we'll organize this is a new situation cianci even on his entire population so a lot of thought has gone and has has to still go into it and this is one of the challenges of africa because obviously in the high income countries in europe and north america those problems and those challenges of not yet is acute as you are. 'd getting the vaccine which was also going to be a challenge for africa but we can come to that maybe just know but once we got the vaccine to try and get it get that coverage after such a level that it's going to affect the population unity to try and get to good immunity we're going to have to call to do a lot of careful planning that really is the planning careful planning meticulous planning that that has to go into it at this stage. it's about africa will receive. the vaccines. well this

is of course that's a big big question and the one thing you have to remember related to that is that the epidemic in africa so fall is not nearly appear to be as severe as it is in europe and north america africa seem to be a lot. of civilian volved and in many reasons for that name to it but the number of reasons was probably in africa it's not nearly as severe so the kind of impetus to call it should be the urgency to get a vaccine in africa is not quite as acute as you go particularly in western europe yes i think africa will only get vaccines well off 'd to. europe and north america but hopefully we will be able to get fairly soon through the kind of exercise enough of initial tranche of eckstein to vaccinate the high risk groups population immunizations are going to have to watch ok wow. professor. chairman of.

the committee. developmental many thanks for that insight thank you thank you very much. president has been reelected for the 2nd time in office with the narrow win of 51 percent of the vote that's ahead of his rival john muhammad who are 47 percent of the result of those close to 40 election had some residents of the competition across. well 1st of all i think. very great. i love the. democrats and what i think about it is. everyone's reaction towards it i mean a lot of people are not happy but when you look and. everybody is cool with the results and we're just moving on with life over there we just want a better life peaceful don i'm happy to. i'm happy

with the current president's strong this election and what i want to do is to create a job. it's it's not it's it's easy for me day you and. i was looking. honestly speaking. these people coming to do the same thing again for the next 4 years is going to be the same thing nothing will change because you know it's like. you coming ok going to politics for 4 years i'm giving you paul for 4 years the next 4 years you come in rupie. i was service jobs to devote generally free and fair but your position in d.c. party back in the other main candidate john hama rejects the results and says it will appeal joining me now is peter deputy general secretary of the m.d.c. party hello and welcome sir why is your party rejecting the results.

well clearly you have. flaws and arrows and. you know confronted the despotic elections you would have decades where by most of the places in the stronghold of the ruling government you had already printed. would you know you see how did this time nobody knows most of them were arrested. people stronghold and you have the keys whereby most older results come in from the region in the eastern region by an extra 390000 votes and even struggling you would realise that when you look at the results from the electoral commission there were some tabulation arrows and if you guess that they give you how to change it if you are from last night this morning they have changed the figures they have declared 3 times in each of the cases when you out it goes to

a runoff so it is not a one time victory we think that this results is flawed it is discredited it's 50 shows and we have rejected it we do not accept this result we would not recognise this and president as the president elect and we are going to use. me as possible to reverse the salvation of the will of the people so how exactly are you going to go about this what are your next steps. well. you know we we have big news that we can use to. the people always remain powerful and the strength of the people the voice of the people remains the. nation and the people. there i think is supposed to be done we would use the people we do use public court of public opinion we. will use every means possible to. reverse. and will certainly keep you

posted about those next moves it's also going to deputy general secretary of the n.b.c. see that talking to us about ghana suppose ition going to contest the results meanwhile we elected president stressed that it was a close call the 2 parties will have to work together in parliament and that that's the will of the people. now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite join hands stand shoulder to shoulder and work out to place gonna where she deserves to be that's it for now from all bastar is going to do dot com slash africa all visit our facebook and twitter pages we leave you with more pictures from ghana after the election results came out so you soon i thought the.

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concerts. but 1st berlin's prestigious state by the way it now admits it has a problem with structural racism that admission came after the 1st black woman to join the company chloe lopez gomez accused the shots by that berlin of mistreatment in a letter signed by several colleagues the french dancer waiter went public with her story after she found out the ballet wasn't renewing her contract. the legend of the white swan for ballet dancer chloe lopez gomez swan lake is no longer just a fairy tale. her skin as white as swan's feathers some european companies have dancers powder their bodies lopez gomez says the training director at berlin state ballet told her she would need extra powder. specially mistress

come to me and she told me you will have to cut out your skin off it very very sad that fortunately no one was able to protect me inside this institution. lopez gomez says the company directors eventually told her she didn't have to powder herself white but did nothing to stop the racist remarks when others gomes joined the shots ballot in 20 teen she became its 1st ever black female dancer soon she realized the ballet mistress had a problem with her skin color. sometimes we'll just come out like chloe you're not online and we can only see you because you're black or you're not musical and we can only see you because you are black and during the rehearsal i got there she was giving why i bet that's we were supposed to put into our heads one came so much wrong she told me i cannot give it to you because it's a very white and you are black and she laughed in my face. the interim artistic

director says the decision to not renew the dancers contract had nothing to do with lopez comesa skin color and that she'd prefer to handle the matter internally. supercomputers yet it's this week that's just very complicated so i don't want to comment on that i learned through the media that fear is apparently an issue here it's just too much. but i also know other voices from the ensemble who say they've never experienced such an open atmosphere as here in the state ballet starts by the way lopez gomez has now received support from the world's most famous black ballerina misty copeland the principal dancer at american ballet theater praised her courage on instagram copeland has long been vocal about racism and ballet last year she posted this image from russia's bolshoi calling them out for using blackface berlin state ballet is now planning

a new code of conduct and says it must do more to fight racism chloe lopez gomez says it's not enough. she still bad to fire me but i have to regret she didn't take any action regarding this is barely mistress who discriminates me because she still working at the stats like nothing happened. chloe lopez says she was fired on that ballet mistress's recommendation she's now hired a lawyer and plans to take legal action. well it may be the most technically ambitious live music event of the pandemic the british band gorillas is playing a concert like you've never seen before with special guests live streamed from different countries some of them as holograms over the last 2 decades gorillas has become the world's most successful virtual band virtual because the official band members to the murdoch russell and noodle are cartoon characters. 7th album

song machine brings together styles ranging from bossa nova to acid house. gorillas 3 concerts will blend real time performances from the basement of congress studios in london with animation by band co-creator human. being in a room. where there is no wardens. you can really. you can use that trickery and technology that we now have available which which was not available 20 years ago. special guests who appear on song machine the band's new album will also perform. this. some of them are there in in the flesh but they're all there as holograms which is an amazing thing and and and the characters murdoch tutti russell and noodle are there as well on stage

interacting with us and it's all going to be like. one highlight will be a live performance from rock icon elton john performing gorillas to the pink phantom . century it's a whole new thing no one's ever seen before. so that's if you cut that. knowledge he works on on the day because it is. carlos put together the new album in a lockdown the band released tracks online as animated episodic videos with my little good look we've got. a big break in the. break we're going to talk more about. guest artists such as cure front man robert smith saying their parts down the phone.

despite being a technology's cutting edge band leader damon albarn wants to get back to live in person concerts as soon as possible. to top the last. you know we could. otherwise we are forced we stand parallel. did. you know. we slowly become a significant. gorilla special performances december 12th and 13. and here to talk gorillas and this musical experiment my colleague scott roxboro scott how are these live performances actually going to work yeah it's seems incredible i mean what they're going to do is they can do 3 live performances from

london from their studio there and they're going to stagger them so like one early the morning on saturday 1 in the evening saturday one in the afternoon on sunday so that they can reach for the entire world the people be awake could watch them from around the world and they're going to be really a combination of for troll and and life so you'll have. 14 piece a grill is banned lee led by damon albarn in the studio performing live i mean have those animated characters which are the official members of the band they'll be there visually being performing and then you have people who contributed to this new album there's a song machine who'll be piped in including john and will to be piped in as hologram so they'll be you'll be able to see the image of the wall they perform it sounds completely credible i have no idea really what it was super trippy but of course the greens are known for mixing out brianna lady with not reality they are a virtual band after i think the most famous popular virtual band and history of course or even 2 other how many virtual bands are there i've no idea but it's. a

physical well but you. know of course i mean this is sort of the what girls have always done i mean years ago 2006 i think they opened the grammys it with a duet with madonna where madonna was live on stage and they were performing as holograms i mean so this is nothing super new for them i mean even look at like older videos they also like to combine this sort of combination of the real and then the virtual and. i mean it's interesting in some ways this is an art project i mean the whole idea was started as a comment a bit on the ark to show ality pop music but what i find so interesting about gorillas is even though they are the world's most artificial band i mean they're literally created in a computer they have a huge dedication to live performance and always have them from the get go ok so these virtual performances may be they won't be sticking with virtual performances post pandemic no definitely not i mean damon albarn has said very clearly you want to get back on stage as soon as possible and they've already are poor planning to

skip off a world tour for this new album a song machine next summer you know safety permitting ok i want to switch gears for a 2nd let's talk about the coronavirus or rather not the coronavirus here in europe everything of course is shut down culturally for the most part ironically over in china where a year ago we heard about the 1st cases of the coronavirus they've got a big film festival up and running euro star film expert what's going on there scott yeah the festival it's the international film festival happens every year it's a big big event in the southeast china it's usually also a big sort of international event you have big hollywood stars to come johnny depp is gone bad mickelson has gone nicolas cage this year of course it's a bit different but it is happening it's taking place in person a physical event of course because of safety conditions is a bit different people have to wear face masks in the cinemas but there aren't these sort of big hollywood stars is the real focus this year on on local and

chinese films but i think it's interesting because. it shows the great difference between. countries now because last year china was sort of shutting down because of coronavirus now in china the cinemas are open again and in some cases a box office is booming while over here in europe almost all cinemas are shut down and you can't get into the movies aren't there the biggest economy or the biggest consumer of movies now. yeah it is it's really really interesting because all the big blockbusters this year basically have been out of china you had a film of the 800 which is a big war movie which made 460000000 dollars just in china and for the 1st time this year china will be the biggest cinema market in the world passing united states the 1st time in history that is absolutely true but it's got rocks for having so very much. a few headlines now. live streams were placed glitzy while galahs the nobel prize ceremonies took place online with none of the winners

present the swedish academy honored us poet louise glick this year's nobel laureate in literature actually accepted her award though last weekend at home in a private ceremony becoming the 16th woman to receive the prize now she's actually admitted to having conflicted feelings about receiving so much attention for her very intimate work was going to new collection of poems is set for publication next august. and meanwhile in germany is a roaring twenty's t.v. series babylon berlin that won best drama at the. awards the prizes for international broadcasting were awarded during a virtual ceremony what else the documentary desperado about german filmmaker them vendettas won the hearts category british nature documentarian david attenborough won the lifetime achievement award and us late night host james corden took the

special prize for innovation in the time of coded. and in a war that's not taking place at all the bad sex in fiction prize normally handed out by britain's literary review has been canceled the judges said with so many bad things already going on this year they didn't want to subject the public to bad sex as well thanks for watching. me.

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