qualm and i saw they are growth during the several years and understand that it was . so enormously high so i could not a war that and i decided to jump into this new knees and build up my own company here it's very exciting is that it's absolutely exciting and are you a digital currency investor yourself yes of course seems to sell in fourteen you must be in bitcoin yes at that point of time there was no affair and so actually in that period i bought my first big quien it was like twenty eight twenty one hundred sixty u.s. dollars spoke on and then during the whole to sudden thought seeing the bitcoin went down so i felt like like an idiot what what what what what why did they such a mistake but at the end of that they currently it's about ten thousand u.s. dollars broker alexander. c.e.o. of universe a block chain thank you for being with us more coming up from the world economic

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davos the first indian leader to speak in years chelton managed to catch up and speak with k t rama row a minister for the indian state of tele ghana for a look at how india's economy has expanded over the years here's the first half of that interview. we're here back in davos this time at the india house and we are with mr k.t. rama rowe of the state of talent guyana and india of course and mr minister i'm curious you are you got a big workload of things on your plate but you have put a lot of money into i.t. and information technology explain why that's so important to you and why you're putting your money where your mouth has been on this issue firstly i must tell you india has been in this trend has been human resources india strength has been it's a large pool of young population which today in the knowledge economy that was.

continues to thrive and i think is extremely important because there are talent the absolute. you know have a little to solve problems come up with solutions is what makes indian youngsters extremely special in the world is come to recognize that so therefore if you look at indian demographic more than fifty percent of india is less than the age of twenty seven so i think that's what that's what makes it extremely attractive for large enterprises to come in and set up their large development centers technology services centers and they in the ip enabled services space and has been extremely attractive for a large number of them so why is it important because it creates great deal of employment it creates creates a great deal of value proposition for the large enterprises that i just mentioned and i think it's a win win situation for both the investor from a return on investment perspective and from a government perspective from the local government perspective creates employment

a lot skitt and it also offers the ability for indian youngsters to experience the global way of doing business india has certainly changed a lot you've got bright brilliant people that are the envy of the world in many cases doing great a. things all over the world but a lot of people i think particularly in the states know that there were many call center jobs in india and is that shifted into more of a high tech area than just the call center jobs the back office jobs if you will absolutely in fact like i said you know india's biggest strength is its large think force. and it definitely is an emerging trend that india and indians young indians especially don't want to be known as you know the back office of the world the tech services the call center of the world therefore you see a lot of product companies coming out of india lot of new it tech companies which

provide solutions not just for india but also for the rest of the world coming up out of india you see a lot of startups sticking a great deal of. market space in countries outside of india and markets outside of india so i see this as an emerging trend over the next one decade because i think what's extremely important for us to understand is if you look at the fortune top hundred of the full stop hundred between all of them cumulatively they're not going to be able to create a great deal of employment in the next decade or so in fact the next wave of growth has to come from innovation has to come from startups has to come from product companies who is who are going to be the large scale employment generators because if you think back fifteen years there wasn't a google there wasn't a twitter there wasn't a facebook and these are the companies these are the enterprises that have created jobs by the millions today and the spinoffs and their app developers etc etc but you've created a bit of spawn down literally millions of jobs so i strongly believe the next

decade or next two decades most definitely going to be the era of startups and that's where youngsters who have the ability to connect ability to compete across the globe are going to matter and that's what india's trying to. and mr minister you know here at davos the whole concept is about you know a globalized community trying to come up with some sort of consensus enough in a fractured world given the what's going on in the world and the us a sort of taken a back seat to a more globalized harmonized effort do you think that increases the pressure on places like india and china that have had really robust g.d.p. growth over the last several years is there more of a an onus on them to speak up and sort of fill the void that was once filled by u.s. leadership the strength of india actually lies in our unity in diversity because it

has always been of a heterogenous country you know it we've we are official languages are twenty two unofficial languages of three hundred you know the costs the communities the religions and the diverse composition of the country that we are in fact india is not a country it's united states of india it's actually a continent if you ask me so therefore with all of its heterogeneity with all of its diversity i think india india's been a shining example for the rest of the world on how in spite of our differences in spite of our. composition in spite of our in spite of the number of things that separate us how we can move together as a nation as a as a as an entity i think that's what the wood wants today because there are number of things that separate us you know the color of our skin religion opinions our divergent views our economic status as well i think end of the day we're all human beings and we're all booking towards one goal and that is a peaceful happy existence for our children and our future generations so that i

think india's been a great example on how to forge ahead in spite of your differences in spite of all the all the things that kind of separate you and i think that's that's exactly what the world needs to minister katy ram a row thank you so much for being with us sir appreciate your. it's very much well little calling gauge men on the rise across many countries in the world we are seeing some of the activist communities who we won it really expect and recent times we have seen even c e o's take to social media to have their voices heard the activist sentiment has even made its way to davos and has become a topic among the many at the world economic forum and managed to catch up with suzanne mueller zantop in davos who tells us what she thinks of the issues. and we're still here at the world economic forum in davos switzerland i'm pleased to be joined by suzanne mueller zantop who is the founder of c.e.o.

positions. suzanne welcome thank you very much for the invitation brad and happy to be here and let me ask you there's been this big increase in c.e.o. and the sweet activism around the world and why do you think that's occurring absolutely i think there has been a couple of things that brought on top of each other the first thing is that you had a lot of political and economic major major events happening such as breck said such as the european refugee crisis such as the temple action the us china relationships etc so it became increasingly difficult for see us to keep quiet to stand away from all of this because it was affecting their companies and their people now there's also a risk right to doing this there is that there is some negatives it's not just all positive right it seems to me that there is a risk which is to keep quiet and there is a lot of opportunity on the positive side if you speak up for instance there was

this test being done of the people are divided into two groups one group got a message that tim cook the c.e.o. of apple did speak out in favor of bt issues and that control group didn't get any such message and guess who was more likely to buy our products despite their maybe adversity against algebra to issues they were the group who had known about tim cook's involvement was a much more likely to buy a product if you had just a couple pieces of advice for c.e.o.'s as they enter this sort of area what would you suggest there i would say there's a couple of things you should do first i mean since we are in this alpine environment where pick your mountain it doesn't have to be the higher. mountain but it has to be a mountain that is worth persevering and that is take one battle at a time and make sure that you can stick with that theme for quite some time second

get your health check up get your analytics like what we do as a firm we provide analytics for c.e.o.'s to measure their exposure and their risk that they're at in terms of communication and that is super helpful also after a health check up you know that the smartest work for you and then get your gear which is set up your twitter account set up all the other channels make sure you have the right types of followers and then get going what are the communication channels that these c.e.o.'s are using are the is it facebook is it twitter what's the best way for them to get out there but activism a fast and it's global so what can he use a person who totally like twitter for it because it replicates a quickly and it's near real time and then of course t.v. and if you combine the two even better and i must imagine suzanne that some of these all star g.

communications departments at some of the big fortune five hundred companies etc they must just be sweating bullets when their c.e.o. says they want to twitter handle how do they have to deal with this circumstance and how the c.e.o.'s deal with entering into the new social media world. it seems that there's two groups of people and some are a bit afraid of a c.e.o. being out of control which is a perception yeah and then there are others who are completely totally relieved that they now can fork on the positive side of things seriously and has set a good thing you know i mean you have excelled in crisis communication so hey let's make this a better world suzanne as you know. major theme here in in davos at the world economic forum is trying to get consensus in a fractured world and you've talked about the positives the bottom line for

c.e.o.'s getting involved in social media but we've also talked about the social area and how they're doing things to be responsible around the planet which person or persons would you think would be sort of the number one tweet or facebook or who's followed both of these twin missions of dealing with socially important issues and with the bottom line of their business i would say yes and if you look at people like richard branson from virgin france nancy promotes all these are environmental issues and goes for education then you have our child from starbucks who girls pro-immigration and even as promises to quit jobs using social media to promote that message you know and i think that is the cup or more if you if you take a little bit deeper you see people like even not all from from g.m. from ford from companies who are you not associated with technology in the first

place but now mark moore who are taking on the medium until they're promoting their causes i thought that was my last question but i've got one more for you i think our boom bust viewers might think i was derelict in my duties if i didn't ask you what you think of president donald trump's tweeting habits ok. what i like is that he brings a very opinionated message into one hundred forty characters. i don't like is everything that happens at four am because maybe at that point in time your brain doesn't really work as well. suzanne mueller's then top founder of c.e.o. positions a.g. thank you so much for being with us. that's all for now from davos will be back tomorrow check out boom bust that you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust

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because i don't think. the. president had one values to expand to turkey's military offensive in syria to the town of man b. it's risking a potential confrontation with us backed forces. popular democrats claim russian boss are responsible for a social media campaign to release a potentially explosive congressional memo. and the exclusion of many clean russian athletes from the upcoming winter olympics triggers an outcry in at least part of the world. wide live from moscow where it is four o'clock in the morning this is our confessional in front. thomas certainly glad to have you with us and he turkish president has announced a plan to extend his country's military operation against kurdish forces in syria

turkish troops are currently fighting why p.g. and afrin and will now advance to monbiot an area controlled by u.s. backed kurdish fighters. the operation we've launched mend all of branch to cleanse africa of terrorists successfully underway starting from member we will continue for you in the games which are being played along our borders and we will cleanse our region completely of this trouble. what we're hearing from the turkish president is that he will now extend his military operation in northern syria to include the town of mann bridge which is around one hundred kilometers to the east of afrin which is where for the past few days the turkish military has been battling it out with syrian kurds who are backed by the united states now once the turkish military moves into man bridge this could potentially put the turkish army

in direct conflict with the forces belonging to a major turkish nato ally namely the united states washington is known to have some two thousand special forces on the ground in syria and while none of them are thought to be in the afrin area they are deployed amongst various kurdish enclave that includes the town of man bridge now man bridge is controlled by u.s. backed kurdish syrian fighters at the same time we are hearing from the turkish president that more than two hundred and fifty syrian kurds as well as islamic state fighters have been killed by the turkish army and allied forces in the past few days these figures are being disputed by the kurdish side who is also accusing and career of civilian casualties this despite the fact that we are hearing from turkey that they are trying to avoid civilian deaths as far as possible now the american president donald trump has called for and is urging a deescalation and

a limit in the military operation that and create is conducting in northern syria it is now the sixth day since the turkish military moved. the border and no doubt in the coming hours and days the situation on the ground will only intensify. i. i. know. the you know their foreign tasks with tanks to move planes we did nothing to hurt them we are protecting our land and they're bombing us and we start them we have to sleep in the cellar because of the bombs we are free to go out on the streets what do they want from us well no only learned they should stay and there's a lot of focus on

a matter how many planes and missiles they send this is our land we will not leave it and do what i do and wants all of this came to a head over the past few days after the united states announced that it was training and establishing a border security force that would comply as some thirty thousand personnel most of them could ever be deployed along the turkey syria and the iraqi border and from what we're hearing on the ground we do expect the military operation to grow and no doubt the casualty count too will intensify crowds have gathered in cities across europe to voice their anger over turkey's military offensive. i. mean german cities of berlin and cologne crowds waved kurdish flags demonstrators branded president ever the wanted terrorist and accused him of killing civilians in africa meanwhile at least two hundred people gathered outside the dutch parliament

in the hague on wednesday calling on turkey to end its military operation. the international relations professor hussein bob she gave us his views on turkey's growing military presence in syria. the expectation was that turkey is in a very short period and control the area in affluent and. stop and clean up turkish decision to extend their operational command which probably will last a little bit longer tonight president grant talked to the president. donald trump to the american side was insisting one of the turkey is not going to stand the operation and what is more important that the civilian casualties should not be the case this is somehow a warning by the americans to the turkish president i think the confrontation between turkey and the united states of america is getting more and more likely.

that the turkish soldiers move face the american soldiers supporting. probably. the turkish government. into account but first of all the operation in africa should be finished and should be completed i do not expect at the moment that turkey is undertaking operation directions which. just weeks to go until the winter olympics in south korea more russian athletes are now expecting their dreams of competing to be dashed international olympic committee has sent a list of eligible participants to russia and it excludes many athletes who have never failed a doping test. tensions in the sports world are hitting another high as the i.o.c. has confirmed that the number of russian athletes that are eligible to compete in the upcoming winter olympics is to be reduced now unexpectedly and without

explanation now the full list of who is eligible has not yet been released but the russian olympic committee has disclosed a number of names that are thought to be who will be disqualified and that decision is ruffling feathers not only in russia but abroad as well a french sports outlet has published a article online condemning the disqualification of two athletes in particular we will not be embarrassed to speak about a denial of justice. and are banned from the olympics because they participated in the sochi games both have undergone hundreds of anti doping controls since two thousand and fourteen and dozens more in recent months control is carried out abroad controls carried out by independent bodies by federations and analyzed throughout europe never in russia the result over the last four years a biathlete has never tested positive. in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and

were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't also for the rest know the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just under two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. players and figure skaters again all of whom have never tested positive for doping and yet they will not be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three other other teammates who

have been hit by bans earlier and another gold medalist who is also thought to be excluded speed skater victor that he thought korean by birth which means that his dreams of competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in that's unlikely to change the i.o.c. is mind. you number of international athletes as well as the heads of olympic committees have condemned the banning of athletes who have never tested positive for banned substances the head of the bulgarian olympic committee says everyone who broke the rules must be punished but the measures taken against russian athletes have been politically motivated one french biathlete has also said he believes the finger is being unfairly pointed at the whole country and the international biafra long union head has claimed that the organization has not been involved in the decision making process russian athletes from seven different disciplines are said to be missing from the list of eligible competitors the list includes five prominent russian short track speed skaters there are also three champions and

a two time world champion cross-country skier none of them have ever tested positive for doping the number of russian ice hockey players bobsledders and the figure skaters who did not even participate in the two thousand and fourteen olympic games are also missing from that list some of the sport's unions and federations have already demanded that the i.o.c. clarify its decision the i.o.c. head was has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation. to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. are we asked a former sweden hockey center anders carlson and the canadian hockey coach scott macpherson for their views on the exclusion of clean russian athletes i think it's all full i think russia should go forward press t.v. goes to the.