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coming up, the massive american services sector has contracted for the 1st time in over 2 years. will get your assessment from our correspondent in new york and we speak to the head of ukraine's natural gas company. asking how the country is coping as russians invasion continues. if that time again dw business, welcome c s. has so far seen a plethora of exciting new gadgets unveiled mobility is one of the big topics yesterday. a color changing car from b m w. so news, new car collaboration with honda plus a key message. the virtual playground of the matter verse is not dead yet. let's check in on the latest trauma las vegas with our report. who's there for us stefan z months? thanks, daniel. hello from las vegas year is of course where the sea is, is happening every year. is one of the main events here. las vegas since 1998. now this is a very special c s y, because it's the 1st non cove it no masks in person,

c. s. after the probate pandemic, c. s has seen a virtual event, her scene or rather meagre, a tendency last year. but now the masters are back and the tech, the gadgets, and all kinds of new things are back to ah, one of the oldest and biggest exhibitions on las vegas event calendar is finally back. as a post kobe no masks in person, you bet. $3000.00 plus exhibitors from $173.00 countries, territories and regions. 1000 of them here for the 1st time ever. they occupied 2200000 square feet of space this year. in case you're wondering, that's the equivalent of about 28 world cup soccer pitches. that's just about

enough space as the masses are back to over 100000 attendees from over 100 countries worldwide are expected to rome. c, s hauled over a 4 day period. i'm still at the wow. it's always new innovation, new technology, the take out. always excited to see that those 3 nights we did a very close shopping thing. it was probably a future shopping when i was that was but it was okay. i liked it. besides new and improved shopping in virtual reality malls, b r a r x r virtual augmented an extended reality, the so called met averse is still once again, one of the main topics of interest and intrigue. here this year i'm going to enter the meta verse. now we're going to transport you from c s, right to manchester city via the matter, with

leading the met averse returning to real world even here, new improved and innovative virtual extended and augmented reality algorithms and software applications are ever take the car industry. all the electric, of course, and on top of that software emerges with hardware and vice versa. honda and sony, mercedes mitsubishi, lucy, luxury car, who guardian, missouri your future. tal mostly driving levy of choice is a super computer. we are a, our x, our platform, an x box for playstation on we're increasingly under fairly all of that. ai, artificial intelligence, it's seeping into all aspects of tech that into nearly all aspects of our life. for now, perhaps just a little but in the future. well, that's what the c s is all about, the future. so as we heard a,

i artificial intelligence is the big thing here. although almost nobody really talks about it. why is that? because it's of course not easy to grasp to see, to understand is very complicated. but make no mistake, the expert say that artificial intelligence is really the, the underbelly for everything which will happen in the future. machine learning deep machine learning, artificial intelligence, will run our economy to a vast degree, our society and our lives autonomous driving and, and the safety which has to come with this is just one thing i o t, the internet of things. this is what the c s is actually doing right now, and focusing on how can technology and will technology solve major problems for us . human beings, he on this planet is there way, and if so, then that's the place and they want to be the place to explore this further. see

yes. all about the future that on demons in las vegas. thank you very much. now to some of the other tech stories making news, samsung's operating profit has dropped nearly 70 percent in the 4th quarter to an 8 year. lo, south korean tech giant says the huge drop is due to the slowing global economy. and weak demand open a i the developer of the viral a i bought chat g p. t is in talks with investment groups to raise capital, which would value the company nearly $30000000000.00. the plan is to raise the money by selling existing shares and the company to new private investors. staying in the u. s. the services sector that contract in december for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic. high inflation weakening demand to the main reasons, according to a survey by the institute for supply management. the data shows that customer orders softened with some having been cancelled in december due to price types of

corresponding against corporate standing by on the new york stock exchange. with more on the latest reading from the service industry definitely was the big missing comparison to estimate that daniel ended does show that the monetary policy of the federal reserve making money much more expensive and a very aggressive fashion seem to be working. if you want to put it, that's the good it was sent. wall street also reacted in a quite a positive way. but what's good for what speed does not necessarily have to be good for the country on for the economy overall. because it does show that the us economy is cooling, even if the latest figures on the labor market that we got here on friday, we're thrill feel pretty robust, even if job growth is cooling a little bit. but the unemployment rate dropped from 3.7 to 3.5 percent and for the

entire year of 2020 to the u. s. created about 4 and a half 1000000 jobs. there was the 2nd best. in the 40 jens caught that ukraine's power grid operator. you ran a go, has issued a fresh appeal to civilians to save electricity as much as possible ahead of unexpected cold snap russian strikes on ukraine's energy infrastructure from october have caused widespread damage. around $350.00 gas fired power plants have sustained, heavy damage. ukrainian cities including kia, are undergoing, scheduled blackouts and power cups to reduce the strain on the grid during heat hours. our reporter, a manuel chaise spoke to the head of state energy from natural gas alexi. churney sought to find out how the country is coping with its energy shortage. mr. chinese, have you recently take another position of seo of natural gas? that's one of the toughest position to be in, in the middle of the war. how has it been over the past few weeks?

my target is secure and during t guess supply 2 or 12000000, the greenhouse holes and to keep them warm and hid it for the course of this and next windows. i'd like to ask you how does a natural gas continue to be operational in the middle of large scale attacks on a power infrastructures? these are turks are definitely should be treated as a war crime as they are targeted exactly on the civilian infrastructure. and the target of russians, the dual russians, is to deprive ukrainian households of heating, electricity, water supply, and the other basic human needs. i'm proud to state that and after gas is functioning, 247, all person alice united feet. we have more than thousands of man on the front

line from our employees. all the others are working mainly in our offices in the ukraine. and our task is very simple. oh, we should guarantee guest supplies and heating to ukrainian people, ukrainian, a capacity to export it, its resources to its partner. our electric greet has been hit dramatically. we have serious outage us, of electricity. all i guess production facility if has been hit as well. and we are working on keeping our production warriors of the lamp levels and we are trying to cope with these risks every day. what form of support do you get from the partners? i'm thinking about your opinion partners. i'm thinking about us. partner ukraine is

in desperate need for external support. and i am really happy and thankful to our wisdom allies for the continued support in the fields of energy, infrastructure, humanitarian and other, which is absolutely critical for ukraine. right now, what are the avenues for a natural gas to, to exploit ukrainian resources and to export them to its partners, especially to it's your apartment. i think these are 2 avenues who are solely should produce more, but from another hand, you should consider responsible consumption of energy and natural gas in particular. and that is a big part of the, of, of job that should be done in the next month and years in ukraine. ah, we stem tonight as right now with germany and other european countries. and i'm

sure this assistance will bring us to the prevailing into the upcoming week 3 that we expect in this year. thank you very much. thank you. and before we go, a quick reminder of our top business story for you. it's day to at c, e s. the huge tech conference taking place in las vegas. one of the big themes this year, optimism over the future of augmented virtual reality and george to date with dw business. thank you very much for watching from me and business team here in funded have a great weekend with what making the headlines and what's behind van d. w. news africa. the show that the issues have been the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally where on the street to give you enough reports on the

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