wretched sales into usa spice us secretary of state antony lincoln, has reportedly cancelled his trip to by jing over the easter and that is all the news for now. ive next. the heat is on the energy funds posting record profits. will i be forced to ease the burden on struggling consumers? that's the question rob watts has the answers and more in business use, coming up after a short break. i'm anthony howard, in berlin from me and the team here. thanks for your company and we're in the world, you're watching. a good time with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some time one day in the footsteps of the rate reason i'm in your northern most count to

play with brain times along still very much a line d w channel. you'll guy to the potential. huh. in germany, it recognizes where exactly. it was fun and i've learned a lot of our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit with pressure builds on big earning oil companies. after a week had seen shell, chevron and exxon smashed their own profits, records will they be made to do more, to ease everyone else's money? troubles voting. a big workforce here. the length in businesses

a going to to attract staff, been a market start of talent. and on your feet and people from driving that cars in the city for a day this week we'll see how it went. this is the to be business on robots in. welcome to the program. brushes war in ukraine has sent energy prices through the roof, as you'll know, the oil companies, all the big witness, posting record profits for 2020 to this week, exxon mobil revealed it made $56000000000.00 last year. it's highest annual figure for a long time. the u. k. shell made 40000000000 it's most profitable 12 months in history and chevrons. 35000000000 is also a company record as well. not only did they benefit from surging on a gas prices, but they've also been cutting back on investments as well. a study suggests big old firms reinvested 6 percent of that profits in 2021. u. s. president joe biden has

been critical saying that they should be investing to help bring down fuel as the cost for americans. so let's cross over to the states and speak to a financial correspondent in new york in this quarter and asked him how likely is that to happen? yes, all these companies going to invest to try and ease the burden on americans. well that's usually the storyline from a lot of the big oil executives that with higher prices there is definitely a bigger incentive to invest more pump more oil. and that keeps prices and check if that's really to happen. well, you just mentioned both the figures that are not to a mind blowing and having that set. we have seen a price has come down quite a bit to the past couple of weeks and months just this week. the prices actually fall 8 percent gasoline prices in the united states are far away from where there were past summer,

but that is probably also because the demand outlook is not that great. and not so much that companies are doing too much. on the supply side, we spoke earlier this week when those massive profits from exxon came out and there was enough anger around them. but that angers any kronos would have more results. the week's gone on. so president biden looking any more likely to do anything. well, i'm quite certain that we will hear a lot out of washington, but we will also see the action. i'm a bit doubtful on that. i mean, there's all this talk whenever we see the thought she would share profits that there should be a windfall take imposed, but that will be very difficult to get through divided congress. so that's one reason why nothing might happen. and then on the other side, it's not that long ago that actually the biden administration was asking the oil industry to pump and drill a more. inflation is still

a big topic in the united states. energy is part of the equation. actually, there was a lot of speculation that the biden administration actually gives the thumbs up for new production in an alaska. so it's, it did since it's 2 side talk to modality and it's all on one side. clearly, those profits are pretty mind blowing, but on the other side, the country does one more. oil and gas. yes. and unions. so much of this is down to those extraordinary prices that we have. the royal and gas joined. 2022 bed 2. it's $283.00, it's actually compatible with $21.00. it says, well, this price is also going to be the same sort of levels of earnings for the company this year. rob it is for me at least hard to imagine to see such huge numbers. again, it's not impossible, but i believe fits rather unlikely. as i mentioned at the beginning, we've already seen prices come down a bit. if you look at gasoline prices,

just as one example, the summer average here in the country, we had a gas price of more than $5.00. now that's more around $3.20. so unless something really crazy happens with the price of oil. again, i guess oil companies will not get such a huge profit, but i stickers think it still will be enough for the subcommittees to survive so they will remain profitable for a probably not as much as possible. okay. yeah. and go to new york for us. thank you very much. let's take a look at some of the other global business stories that are making the news. us job gains search unexpectedly last month as unemployment slips to its lowest level in more than 5 decades. there was largest economy added more than half a 1000000 jobs in january. growth was widespread lead by gaines in leisure and hospitality. professional and business services and health care. in germany, sales of new cars fell in january is demand for electric cars plunged subsidies for

e vehicles expired at the start of the year drop in sales while as an increase in december when customers rushed to benefit from those incentives. german technology giant bosh says it plans to continue developing its business in china as despite the debates they were being too dependent on individual market. the company posted 3700000000. yours of profits in 2022 with china accounting for 5th of sales around 2000000 job openings went unfilled in germany. last year would be, employers are really struggling to attract the work is that they need to sweeten the deal. many of them are offering to pay more than they usually would, but others are finding creative ways to expand that he was his global cheryl silverman, his in aspiring roofer today, she's renovating the roof of an old berlin villa. she decided to do this training

because she wants to work with her hands and likes the outdoors. she was drawn even by her employers instagram account as, as was a leading snout. it looked very life like because among other things there were pictures of people getting rained on because of course they work in any weather. one of the photos even showed my friend when she was working on the berlin cathedral and so on and so forth. and that impressed me, i like big projects, big companies, and so i sent in my application and then i stopped paval, facebook, instagram and a dedicated website. the company presents itself and its employees, photos directly from the construction site boss. last a quickbook as long relied on social media for recruitment. i said so. i told kitson since 2014, i've been consciously looking after the next generation with a concept and we've been successful. we have more applicants here than we can hire . and now i can hire between 10 and 15 trainees in the summer and then to make the

online presence interesting for young people. the account. so run by trainees. like future office manager, nealus, levinsky. them it did. we tried to get future trainees, a better picture of what we do, how we work, and what we're working on, and what sort of things could come up during an apprenticeship. i thought of the to con continentals little. the training challenge also attracts youngsters. it's a kind of assessment center. 30 applicants have to prove themselves in a practical test at 10 stations. the company then decides which ones will be taken on those future trainees. daughters and student presented that no. this creates a personal bond right from the start. everyone really gives the best the ones we take really want to start here. that way. i don't hire people that leave us shortly after. good spock has created a family atmosphere every friday at 4 pm. the employees have a barbecue together, apprentices, qualified tradesmen and office staff sit together,

talk about the week, discuss problems, cheryl silverman likes that sandy. this is am to sit at the barbecue with hire qualified colleagues. suddenly you're on the same level, everyone's drinking beer and talking about their families. and there are no more instructions and you don't have the hierarchy of the construction site. it really ties us together. he had a heap of, they're both still a half on test making sure that was on the concept works. the company intends to continue growing this year. both it's stuff and it's business. oh, now thursday was a quiet stay on the streets of bug or tar. oh, forties in the colombian capital band, cars from his roads for 24 hours and an efforts to improve the cities air quality and the locals seem happy to have plate that pot this is not what the streets of for what i usually look like home to over 7000000 people, the city counts 1800000 privately owned vehicles and 430000 motor bikes on it

streets. and it pays a high price for it with terrible air quality. and more back muslim energy and bullets are 23 percent of the emissions of particles. so the pollutants that affect people's health come from the vehicles on the road and almost 50 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions. so the ones that cause climate change also come from road transport. this days, an opportunity to mobilize for the way we want to live in the city in the future, m o n last come. okay, name was carvajal azia, indian food for car free day. most drivers in bogota went with public transportation, or simply used bikes and scooters to get to work all around town. but gotta already has an extensive network of bypass, a feature often overlooked when traffic gets overwhelming and where they are. but eyes with, i mean a less, a good day to decontaminate the city. i think it is necessary because of the

emissions and the saturated traffic conditions, the frequency of the car free day should be increased, but on the other side of the scale, public transport should be improved, required or is okay. so do i think it's certainly contributes to the improvement of the environment. however, it can be complicated for those who make their livelihoods from ability and vehicles. i choose to ride my bike to day, and i had a very nice time. oh yeah. okay, but i'm very busy with the new router. we have an hourly according to bogota environments, secretariat the car free day cut, c o. 2 emissions by 7600 tons. and just lastly, during the current of ours pandemic, you may remember hong kong introduce some of the strictest travel restrictions in the world and was also slower to lift them than many of its neighbors. now the international financial hub is trying to undo the damage done to its tourism industry by handing out free flight tickets following a colorful campaign,

which you can see here. i left the dancing pilot half a 1000000 tickets are going to be given to foreign travelers. they'll be allocated through price draws, bio and get one free deals, and promotional games. the giveaway beginning in march is expected to cost hong kong over $250000000.00. so from in the business name, hair, berlin for more had i was a day to we dot com slash business or the d to we news you shoot. or you can check out alex d to we business special to next time was making the headlines. and what's behind them d, w, news, africa. they show the issues in the continent. life is slowly getting back to normal. yeah. we're on the streets to give you enough reports on the inside our

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