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i'm seeing busy invalid. welcome to our show. an unexpected bounce and retail spinning in january is adding to the puzzling picture that is the u. s. economy. sales jumping 3 percent from december as auto dealers, department stores, and restaurants all recorded. strong turnover is the largest month to month game for us retail since 2021. and it's expected to add to a pressure on the u. s. federal reserve to continue raising interest rates as it fights inflation of the ins quarter in new york for more now years. correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought the point of all these interest rate hikes we've seen was to dampen demand. what's going on here? well, it's even, but the timing is sir king. right. i mean, the problem is sir, was though the interest rate increases, it's had a lagging effect to take some time so that those higher interest rates work as through the economy. i mean, we also see that was the labor markets. i mean the interest rate increases were

supposed to cool down the labor market. but the last reading that we got was actually the best since may of 1960 in hot. and so obviously that hasn't done the trick quite yet, but it's definitely interesting to see a december was such a disappointment when actually sales in the retail sector dropped by more than one percent. and now this 3 percent increase in pricing, it pretty much all categories and saw in increase. so a definitely very as strong a numbers of from consumers at one little remark on to that. so those figures are not adjusted for inflation for inflation. so part of the story is also things got more expensive and therefore also that to had an effect on higher retail sales . un speaking of demand, we talked about travel demand being so high. now we're seeing that air b and b has some surprisingly strong numbers working to us there. well, i'm in it for, for the i a year of 2022. it was actually a record profit of

a good $2000000000.00. said that to him air b and be a chief. no wonder that the stock, by the way, was up by about am 13 percent here on the wednesday a session. i mean what a, b and b did for incentives so that price is increased on average and the 4th quarter, the booking per day was at a $152.00. there was a price jump of 36 percent in comparison to the year a prior. so very strong booking, so with the air b and b and to what is also happening. and i guess it, but a lot of our view chris will a see that to a city travel is a back in a big way. and that is also helping companies like air b and b, but also tripadvisor, for example, came out with their earning. so also they're a very strong a showing. so a bids in travel in general, definitely as a back and air b and b as one of the companies that profiting from that ryan's court it in new

york. thank you. or some chinese phones gathering too much personal information. researchers in edinburgh found several handsets doing just that. the report this month found that pre installed apps on phones from 3 chinese companies asked for a large number of access permissions to phone features such as the camera. they were also sending larger than normal amounts of personal data to their makers. even if the sim card was removed, is what their port set is said. combined this information poses serious risks of user d and m a zation and extensive tracking, particularly since in china. every phone number is registered under a citizen id. moreover, the data collection behaviors do not change when the devices move outside china. a pull, patrice is a researcher and professor at the university of edinburgh. and he's one of the 3 authors of that study. earlier i asked him, what information is being disclosed?

right, so there are broadly for types of information that are being disclosed. we categorize these as the voice specific geo, location, specific user profile and social relationship. so some of the things make sense for, you know, being spikes. system updates, for instance the i m a o s was shown. sometimes you need application that really depend on the information such as t p. s the already. so the smart. but if you kind of combine all these information together, new collect all at the same time, that kind of believe still much about the maybe more than, than what's necessary about the use of the app. and then you probably don't need to weigh that obligation to kind of share the information about s m s. and my so called he study and the information is being sent and it's being sent to that is said, but across china we identified those being managed in beijing. hun joe, one chunk bunch of other places. but in general, there are basic,

all sorts of 3rd party package that send the c formation. and that includes, for instance, china, china unique almost the k, which would find a bit strange. because in the end, you might have a phone that doesn't really kind of have a subscription with china unique pull. how does this compared to to other privacy leaks you've seen elsewhere including and european for models? yes, actually prior to the study we looked at the andre asked the distributions that are available. ready in europe, and we see the extent of formation leakage or collection in the chinese. however, it is probably $3.00 to $4.00 times more extensive than what we've seen in europe. and so what, you know, what 3rd party packages are granted for emissions. and some of these are dangerous, but missions and button ties defined by google. so you know,

there are things to do with camera and so on, which an order will require user consent terms of dangerous permissions. we see approximately twice as many day us, but we should be in the, in the chinese fluid as compared to the, the flood rate available in europe. so $3.00 to $4.00 times the kind of privacy leakage that we would see in europe more dangerous permissions. a lot of us going to chinese telecom companies. what does your study mean for users of chinese phones? so i think it's important to make a distinction here. so that phones that the chinese phones that are commercializing, you'll have different settings. so here we looked, stick the folders that are available on the chinese market, and that's important because the number of android users in china is by far the largest in the world. and what's interesting that even if those use this endif, china, what this would be from the source study,

but sees these practices continue despite the fact that you know, they might be in euro, but g dpr regulation is expected to be applied to the so on. but he does, you know, individuals might, you know, might be subject to some degree of surveillance outside mainland china. all right, paul path for us from the university of edinburgh talking about his study with 2 other authors into chinese, some chinese phone models. thank you very much. thank you. it was a chaotic day for air travelers in germany after the country's biggest airline. lufthansa was forced to cancel or delay hundreds of flights. the carriers computer systems were shut down after construction workers at frankfurt airport, accidentally cut through a data cable with tons of shares dipped on the news for recovery. once the problem was lifted or poorer, a kang shirt sucked. santa was in frankfort earlier and sent us this update. wednesday's failure comes 2 days before blind stikes at 7 german airport that,

that expect it to lead to major disruption. again, including potentially add them unit security conference, where were leaders, i'd expected to gather all the flights have now resumed the outage, but many domestic and international passengers across germany in a difficult position. frankfurt is the country's biggest airport and a major international transit top flight to the us and asia. the outage also grab the attention off investors. they pushed in the fans or shares down 1.5 percent by mid morning before the stock rebounded. the airline fed behind the eye to disruption was damage to the glass fiber cables in frankfort that happened during that construction work. even if it is an isolated incident. it's just the latest problem plaguing and industry, eager to return to its sleep. and i make levels of anxious accent there in frankfort, shifting gears in norway, the discovery of rare earth minerals recently prompted

a great deal of excitement. now the country wants to move closer to extraction with mining to, to start next year. but not everyone approves a front end loader tips 25 tons of rock into this dump truck in all him in western norway, since 1948 olivine has been mined, here the mineral is rich and magnesium and important for the production of steel. among other things, norway now wants to mind the countries many other natural resources. for libya, it convey least we don't have a big industry yet, but we have many deposits. probably the largest deposits from metals and rare earth in europe. these are building blocks that are important for the green transition of industry, also via hilt orvin jo of either get on the shifter. currently, china is dominating the market for rare earth. europe does not want to be reliant on china any more, and has been ramping up its search for domestic resources. titanium you dinner folly. but in motive, it's dangerous that china has

a quasi monopoly on the production of some raw materials. and it has used these to monopolize entire supply chains, shita. but if norway wants to mind more raw materials at home, this will lead to conflicts with locals. for years, residents of no stall had been fighting a major mining project on fed a fjord dog dying group projector. we oppose this project because they want to cut off the top of angular mountain and plan to dump 250000000 tons of mining, sludge, chemicals, heavy metals and micro plastics, straight into one of the regions most fish, rich fjords. if you would have nordic mining has now received approval to start mining the raw materials on the fjord in 2024 or a whole fiddle. i hope that politicians and others understand that we both in norway and in the nordic countries, you must help provide important minerals for europe and the rest of the world's middle. we cannot wait for 3rd world countries and provide us with all the mineral

supplies that we need. i also from fed device and scuffle sheet, no small to the minute. only thing in europe wants to free itself from its dependency on the world market. and increasingly mine its own raw materials. the green revolution is still seeing this classic conflict between the environment and industry. all right, that's it for me and the dw business team for more about these and other stories checks out aligned dot com slash business. i've seen beardsley, thanks watching conflicts own with tim sebastian, it's almost a year since russia invaded ukraine with no peace talks or cease fire of any kind in cross path. my guess is we must go to meet with a former army officer and former director of the canadian moscow center, which was shut down last april. why did moscow go to war?

just as the west had begun, the dialog putin has been demanding conflict with nike convention snap flish. absolutely. the consortium and then the chip mean the switch like unless his teeth are obscene you beforehand, then the convention isn't that as a prescription interested them a bruce to squad this. c machine, your studies go to cynthia. had been to mary ah, a story of resilience ah, in 45 minutes on d. w. ah. with someone else to the tv highlights, it's selected for you. new every week in your a box. subscribe. now. imagine how many portion of love us are now in the world

right now. the climate change event off the story. this is my place, the way from just one week. how much work can really get we still have time to act, go. i'm dealing with his subscriber, or more than likely it's almost a year since russia invaded ukraine with no peace talk. so c, spire of any kind in prospect. and yet president putin insist the war is showing a positive trend. my guest this week for moscow is dimitri training for my army officer and former director of the carnegie moscow center, which was shut down last april with tens of thousands.