. $7.3 billionding on big-ticket items in the first three months of the year, that includes $2 billion on a new office building in new york. 73% in profits rose by the first three months. advertising was up almost a quarter. say in 2018,rts google will control 31% of the global advertising business. genie: that's huge. let's come back to france. rail passengers have anotherer y of disruption from strike. stepehn: it's the high-speed services running today. they are stretching over the plan to overhaul the state-owned rail operator. the are meeting to extend strike beyond the date already announced, the end of june. there is a strike today, the greatetest is led to 1 11 days f problems for passengers. we have more. france'se of air headquarters, few employees will talk about the strike, especially those heading to work. in 50% of ground crew are participating. this is the 11th day of strikes. company 300 the million euros. the strikers are calling for pay raises for all staff. a pay raiseling for of 5.1% for this year and they rejected a proposition of a two point -- 2% raise for the ne