next 2 months, the north western city will celebrate the cold, with theme parks getting rates, and more than 300 ice and snow sculptures. hundreds of thousands of tourists are expected to visit the festival, which was go back in previous years because of covered 19 restrictions. and that is all for now. business news is up next that we have a report on the ground at the tech conference at c e s. in las vegas, it's massive mobility, gadgets, and virtual reality. you'll get a closer look after the break member this morning is a d, w dot com and i'll be back in 45 minutes with another bullet. stay with us. you've got to use it all to say what grade

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coming up, the massive american services sector has contracted for the 1st time in over 2 years, will get the 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 russia invasion continues. it's that time again, d w a 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 from las vegas with our report. who's there for us? stuff on the months. thanks daniel. hello from las vegas. you is, of course, where the sea is, is happening every year, is one of the main events here. las vegas, it's 1998. now this is a very special c s y because it's the 1st non covert, no masks in person,

c. s. after the covert, pandemic, c. s has seen a virtual event, her scene or rather meagre, a tendency last year. but now the masses 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 opposed cove, it no masks in person. he bet $3000.00 plus exhibitors from $173.00 countries, territories and regions. 1000 of them here for the 1st time ever. they occupy 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, i expected to roam the c. s halt over 4 day period. i'm still at the wowza, it's always new innovation, new technology to take out. always excited to see that those 3 nights we did a very 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 mad of earth ah

leading the med averse returning to real world even here, new, improved and innovative virtual extended and augmented reality algorithms and software applications are every take the car industry, all electric, of course, and on top of that software emerges with hardware and less worst. honda and sony, mercedes mitsubishi, lucy, luxury car, who guardian, missouri your future. antonio mostly driving levy of choice is a super computer. we are a, are x, our platform, an x box for play station on. we're increasingly the under fairly all of that. ai, artificial intelligence, it's seeping into all aspects of tech that into nearly all aspects of our lives. for now we have 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. i'm 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 their way. and if so, then that's the place and they want to be the place to explore this further. see as

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 estimates that daniel ended does show that the monetary policy of the federal reserve making money much more expensive and a very aggressive session seem to be working. if you want to put it that the could do is send a wall street alter reacted in a quiet 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 thing. the 40 jens caught that ukraine's power grid operator. you ran air go, has issued a fresh appeal to civilians to save electricity as much as possible ahead of unexpected cold snap rushing 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 and including kia are undergoing scheduled blackouts and power cups to reduce the strain on the grid during heat hours. our reporter in manuel shays 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 message. i need to 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 ukranian households, 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 states that nothing else is functioning. 247. i'll person alice united, the seat. 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 gift 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 outages of electricity. all our gifts productions facilities has been hit as well. and we are working on keeping our production volumes of the plan to levels and we have trying to cope with these risks every day. what form of support do you get from the partners? i'm thinking about european partners. i'm thinking about us. partner ukraine is in

desperate need for external support. and i'm 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 reduces and to export them to its partners, especially to europe in partners. 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, it right now with germany and other european countries. and i'm sure this

assistance will bring us to the prevailing into the upcoming victory that we expect in this year. thank you very much. thank you. and before we go quick, remind 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 job to date with d. w. business. thank you very much for watching from me and business team here. invalid have a great week with mate the world a little bit better with t. these entrepreneurs are revising all traditions in their way with fair wages and organic quality,

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