richard branson wants to bring a futuristic hyperloop style train system to india. he signed a preliminary arrangement with the prime minister to build a route that will connect

that is richard branson there now. let's brief you on other business stories.k are expected to remain closed today because of a lack of chicken. they've been struggling to deliver supplies chain switched its delivery contract to dhl last week. kfc says its unclear when the problems will be rectified. —— kfc says it's unclear when the problems will be rectified. staff are being encouraged to take holidays, but not being forced to do so. that is the situation. the social media giant facebook says it is to send postcards in the us mail in order to verify the location of people requesting to buy adverts related to us election candidates. the postcard would contain a code, which would be required to complete the booking. 13 russians have been charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election. the indictment says they bought political advertising and set up groups on social media sites, including facebook. a mixed day forfinancial a mixed day for financial markets across asia will and a strong day on monday. hong kong opens today for the first time this week

richard branson wants to bring a futuristic hyperloop style train system to india.reliminary arrangement with the prime minister to build a route that will connect the cities of pune and mumbai and 25 minutes, saving three hours. we met with him and asked whether this could become a reality. look, there are going to be naysayers at the start of any new industry and our right to be naysayers until we have actually proven wrong. the upside of it is gigantic. trains made a very big difference to india in the last century. i believe that hyperloop will be the giant step forward that india needs. hyperloop can connect most of the major cities in india in well under two hours. you have to make sure that the cost is reasonable because the cost of building is too high. certainly in countries like india where basic transportation and infrastructure is an issue. a lot of governments might find the idea interesting but the project cost could be too high and they would get turned off. firstly, they would get turned off. firstly, the cost of building hyperloop would be private m

richard branson sign that the the primein front of minister.ere in the emirates, in dubai, he is helping around the world. engagement, his excitement, with this company has been palpable. we are very lucky to have him as our chairman. >> what do you make of some of the plans of elon musk to get into this business? >> elon musk and speak about his plans. he is focusing on tunneling. we are focusing on a technology that will go above ground or below ground. with the router between abu dhabi and dubai, most of that would be above ground because the ground is flat and level. some of that would be bonita ground if we went to the city center. i think his plan is mostly to dig tunnels and then have some form of electric vehicle under the city. >> there was a cash injection of $50 million, that will last you so long. , theis the land longer-term plan in terms of being able to generate enough cash flow to keep this project going? >> we have had absolutely tremendous support from our largest investor, dp world. been wellership has in place for over a yea

senator marco rubio, group founder richard branson and investor warren buffett. it begins with commerce secretary ross. ♪ thank you for that kind introduction. this is about the most hospitable audience we have seen in washington for a very long time. [applause] i congratulate goldman sachs for developing so many small and medium-sized enterprises and for hosting the 10,000 small business summit. the 29t 2,019th 6 million compas like yours regularly generate 63% of all of the new jobs in the country then and play a little bit over half the total employment role of the country. [applause] some of you will also become entrepreneur giants with bill gates and others. but even if you fall a bit short in their stratospheric heights you still have the wonderful satisfaction of having your business child grow into the healthy adult scale enterprise. it's also interesting to note that the next entrepreneurs in the country is changing and changing rapidly. that is [applause] in my previous life in the private sector i invested in lots of businesses come and interestingly i

it's 40 minutes. >>> sir richard branson, ladies and gentlemen. we are thrilled to have you here today. you need no introduction, but i'm going to give you one anyway. you've started over 400 companies in your career of managing businesses over five decades. i'm sure that there's going to be a bunch of valuable insight that you can provide to all the business owners that are here, so screw it, let's get on and do it. and i'm really excited, personally. this is great for me. so i'm just going to start. you started all this when you were a kid. you were 16 years old. you launched a magazine, "student" and you then went on to launch virgin records. i'm pretty passionate about music myself and i know a little bit about the music business, not an easy business, you had no experience in production. so, talk a little bit about this entrepreneurial spirit. you're 16 years old. where'd this all come from? >> well, first of all, hi, everybody, and thanks for a lovely welcome. i think i just saw lots of mobile phones. you had sara blakely here earlier today,

[applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] richard branson ladies and gentlemen. we are thrilled to have you. you don't need introduction but you started over 400 companies in your career managing businesses over five decades. i'm sure there will be valuable insight you can provide to all business owners so screw it and let's do it. this is great for me but you started this as a kid 16 years old then went to launch virgin records that isn't an easy business you had no experience so talk about this entrepreneurial spirit as 16 years old where did this come from? >> first of all hello and thanks for a lovely welcome. [applause] you had sarah blakely here earlier did she tell a story? [laughter] she was very young but she did very well and she survived. [laughter] but we are very pleased. but you had a question for me? [laughter] >> but yes. >> i was interested as a young 14-year-old what was going on around the world. and i was inquisitive. and the vietnamese war was raging and it seemed to me it was not just first of all and i wanted to campaign but ther

>> well, i met richard branson in the most unlikely way. we became friends and the first day i ever met him, we scaled the side of a hot air balloon together at 10,000 feet in the air and had tea on top of the balloon. so that was, i tell people i'm like i feel like i basically had to risk my life to become his friend. but richard branson did a reality show called "the rebel billionaire" and it was his version of "the apprentice" but instead of all the business challenges taking place in just new york city, they took place around the world. and what i didn't know, a minor detail, was that instead -- if you didn't win the business challenge, instead of going to a boardroom and getting fired, you would have to do a world record breaking death defying stunt with richard. okay? have i mentioned i'm terrified of heights, i'm afraid to fly, i get very -- i'm not kidding. yeah. so i have always been a fan of richard's. i read his book in college and when i found out he was doing a reality show, i thought this is cool, i'm an entrepreneur. i just n

what to drink when you're not prinking has become the slogan of branson's company seedling. that's the name he gave to the nonalcoholic spirits he's been selling since two thousand and fifteen. made from six ingredients seed lip is best when mixed with other drinks many drink it was tonic water as a real alternative to the iconic gin and tonic. we've been very fortunate that we work with lots of amazing balls and amazing bots and this who like this is brilliant in this case and some. thing to work with and drink and means that i can give people who are not drinking a great complex you know drink instead of that and freeze. the gong bars one of london's top addresses for alcohol free cocktails located on the fifty second floor of the shangri-la luxury hotel it's the city's highest bar bartender federico kobe doe and his colleagues spent over a year working on the cocktail menu one of their creations was the web slinger made from treasure brine spinach syrup bramley apple concentrate and see to it. the seed even if it's in a tiny amount make sure that all the ingredients they

virgin founder richard branson admits watching elon musk's success with spacex and feels left out. >>lon and his team are extraordinary what they have achieved and they will do fantastic. >> branson may be impressed with spacex and its progress but he is not giving up hope that his virgin galactic enterprise will be first to put people in space. >>> i'm a little jealous of this. in recent years cars have been increasingly connected to technology and now motorcycles are getting the upgrade. betty yu takes one for a test drive. >> reporter: they are fast, sleek, italian-made and a force on the road. now ducati is rolling out what it calls the most connected motorcycle in the world. >> this is definitely not the fastest ducati motorcycle but in terms of real world riding and that experience and on off the bike it's the smartest. >> reporter: a took a ride on the model with a ducati north america ceo in the marin headlands. this model connects to a smartphone which riders use to directly set riding mode through bluetooth. the app due out in march reports data including route details, powe

what to drink when you're not drinking has become the slogan of branson's company seedling. that's the name he gave to the nonalcoholic spirits he's been selling since two thousand and fifteen. made from six ingredients seed lip is best when mixed with other drinks many drink it was tonic water as a real alternative to the iconic gin and tonic. we've been very fortunate that we work with lots of amazing balls and amazing boston as who are like this is brilliant this gives me something to work with and to build a drink or around means that i can give people who are not drinking a great compaq's you know drink instead of that and the fruit juices. the gong the bars one of london's top addresses for alcohol free cocktails located on the fifty second floor of the shangri-la luxury hotel it's the city's highest bar bartender federico kobe doe and his colleagues spent over a year working on the cocktail menu one of their creations was the web slinger made from treasure brine spinach syrup bramley apple concentrate and see to it. the seed leap even if it's in a tiny amount to make

virgin founder richard branson, what he is saying about the success of elon musk and spacex's success. during the news briefing about last week's test launch of the falcon heavy rocket... musk was asked about his plan >>> elon musk has more than mars on his mind. during the news briefing about last week's test launch of the falcon heavy rocket, musk was asked about his plan to launch scores of satellites in the coming years. he didn't say. but they have filed government documents to put more than 10,000 satellites into orbits above earth to allegedly provide better internet service around the world. >>> rivalry is developing between a pair of billionaire visionaries. richard branson admits watching elon musk's success with spacex and feels left out. >> i feel a bit jealous. elon and his team are extraordinary what they achieved. and they will do fantastic. >> branson isn't giving up hope that his company will be the first to put people in space. >>> time now 5:55. in the next half-hour, remembering the 17 lives lost in florida. why officials say that the death toll could have been muc

they heard from former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, marco rubio, richard branson, founder of the virgin group, and berkshire hathaway ceo warren buffett. personale their experience in business. >> good afternoon. , and i am sid sharman co-owner of wild company just -- kombucha. in baltimore. we brewed after work on weekdays and on weekends we would bottle. we did everything by hand. over 350w sold in stores across five states. [applause] and thankfully, we no longer do it all by hand. meet the opportunity to our next speaker for the first time at my 10,000 small business graduation in baltimore, and when bloomberg and goldman sachs brought me up for a coaching session. i am r.g. share a birthday with him. please welcome, the 108th mayor founder and ceo of bloomberg llp, and someone who understands baltimore's charm, michael bloomberg. [cheers and applause] ♪ man i'm a soul soul man ♪a mr. bloomberg: happy birthday. we share a birthday. that is valentine's day. they say that is unique. but if you think about it, it's not that unique. to a greatlcome event. i have always been a

richard branson with ambitions for virgin hyperloop one. in india.five to ten years, would you climb on board? probably but i have a bad habit of ordering a taxi and saying, five minutes, ten minutes... will they be hovering around my rooftop? one viewer says, yes, glad to use one if safety is guaranteed and cost is friendly. sean says the same, depends upon the safety. can you tell me how to hail one, says one. chris says, no. petersays, tell me how to hail one, says one. chris says, no. peter says, at a nonsense. hot debate going on. what else is going on? brexit, interesting story in the ft, campaigners to stop brexit preparing a six—week advertising blitz. group partly funded by george soros, but also a crowdfunding arrangement, and he will step up advertising over the next six weeks, head of the vote for the customs union and he will already have people working on mad max and david davis's head, at best for british, i can see this happening. key votes are coming up. the political party launch, renew, people focusing on this, we will hear more an

[music] richard branson ladies and gentlemen. we are thrilled to have you here today you've started over 400 companies in your career of managing businesses i'm sure this is going to be a much valuable insight that you can provide to all of the businesses partners were here. i'm just in a start you started all this when you were a kid. you are 16 years old.st he launched that magazine. and then you went on to launch virgin records. not an easy business. you are 16 years old. where does this all come from. hi everybody and think you i think i just saw lots of mobile phones. you have sarah blakely here. she did really well. and she survived. i don't think you are allowed to say things like that anymore. we are very pleased. i forgot you have a question for me. i was interested as a young and 14 of 15-year-old as what was going on around the world. and i was inquisitive in the vietnamese war was raging it seemed to me as it seemed to a lot of young people a lot of adjustable. i like other people wanted a campaign to try to stop it.

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cbc.1% for ob coming up, branson has a thing or two to say about brexit.. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets: asia." i am david ingles. haslinda: i am haslinda amin. thousands of business owners are at the goldman sachs summit today and richard branson gave us words of advice for would-be entrepreneurs. really thought of government as have a much to do with foreign investment. i have just gone on and done it and i pray that the government does not get in the way. and i think that in the 50 years since i have been in business, by and large governments have gotten less and less in the way of business, in the -- when i started, you know, there was british gas, steel, british airways, british coal, everything run by governments. fortunately come all of those companies, they were broken up and now they are competitive entrepreneurial businesses and, and the country has been more successful as a result. and i suppose what we have to hope is that if there is a change of government in great britain, they are talking about re-nationalizing a lot

breaking news in the murder trial of branson sutcliffe, heir to the sutcliffe caramel fortune. ♪ sutcliffecream ♪ real yummy let's go live to chase terry, who is outside the courthouse. chase, what's happening? hi, ted. sutcliffe's attorneys have called a sudden press conference. as you can see, the podium behind me is filled with microphones indicating an important announcement. surely, they'll arrive any moment now. perhaps we should check back in later, chase. ted. ted, uh, right now, i'm sensing a palpable shift in the energy out here much the same way a herd of elk would sense a predator in their midst. surely, the defense team will be arriving right...now. right now. [ whispers ] right -- right now. okay. chase, why don't we check back in with you later? oh, hey, ted! uh, uh, ted, um, i have a new development. yeah! yeah? i don't know. i don't know. chase, we got a lot to get to. when we return, hurricane randy... [ guitar riff plays ] ...can't stop, won't stop, plus, is there a moose in your house? the answer may surprise you. and i hold president trump's feet to the fire in an excl

later a small business summit included michael bloomberg, richard branson and marco rubio.first an update. >> the senate barely out of first gear on immigration today. the senior staff writers joining us of what has kept the debate from moving forward on tuesday?

distilled nonalcoholic spirits that imitate the days to gin without using sugar or artificial flavors branson gave up alcohol a decade ago but with the lack of alternatives he decided to develop his own. when you're out with friends. it's or you get home from work i need a long day i know you want to start dinner but you don't want to have that clause or read on. there's nothing that fits the occasional feel special. what to drink when you're not drinking has become the slogan of bronson's company seedling. that's the name he gave to the nonalcoholic spirits he's been selling since two thousand and fifteen. made from six ingredients seed lip is best when mixed with other drinks many drink it was tonic water as a real alternative to the iconic gin and tonic. we've been very fortunate that we work with lots of amazing balls and amazing bots and those who are like this is brilliant this gives me something to work with and to build a drink and means that i can give people who are not drinking a great compaq's you know drink instead of that and the fruit juices. the gong bars one of london's top a

we will be talking to richard branson, who's planning to build a super speed transport link between twoe pictures from remote mountains in ethiopia, where a christian priest commutes almost two hours a day to his church, which is carved in the side of a cliff. the church is perched above a 250 metre drop, and is traditionally reached without shoes or ropes. and so no one has ever fallen and so no one has everfallen in making the very treacherous journey. once again, ijust want to bring you up to date with how we see the weather developing right across the british isles in the coming days. and i think there will be something of a transformation for many of us as early as today. a much brighter day for central and western parts compared to monday, simply because monday's weather front slowly but surely is easing its way over towards the north sea but not quite completing the job, and that is quite important because it gives leaden skies for tuesday. the last of the mild air trapped with that weather front, slowly just becoming confined to the east. out towards the west, underneath clear s

and british billionaire richard branson tells us hyperloop technology can be the giant step forward that, hang seng in hong kong. we will see how hsbc shares trade fair. a fairly mixed day with japan down after a very strong monday.

capitol with richard branson's virgin galactic and even musk space x. together with nasser in attendance we're going to turn to another conference. dharmas twenty nine hundred showcased at london's royal society in the past few days in collaboration with media partner r.t. as his journal aims to unite the arts and the sciences and gather a constellation of stars in the city where einstein forged the basic equations that arguably rule our lives today the event in switzerland will feature nobel prize winners cosmonauts and astronauts as well as prominent theoretical physicists and award winning musician the oneness or physicist we caught up with was the founder of straw most dr garrick is really dark it's that time of year again we're in the internationally famous royal society in london why byrne in switzerland for star most twenty nineteen first science experiment first strong to me spearmint done on board polo eleven neil armstrong can buzz aldrin was to detect a solar helium. and. on the surface of the moon so the university or band was in charge of a

fiona brian he says interesting show always informative today poignant in a spec full thanks mike branson says remembering the holocaust basho yet emotional humbling and inspiring and then from diane he says another excellent show very respectful poignant and should never be forgotten thank you alex and thank you diane for teaching us lynne finlayson says very moving show this morning well done alex wish you could be on for longer a lot pass out on telly says billy and show alex i particularly like your bits to camera at the end highlights of my week well that's great to hear tell you i'm so sorry i'm going to have to disappoint you this week when i'll be closing the shoe then we've got a message from bear that he says love the show watched everyone so far just one thing hit us studios bricked up windows the post zombie apocalypse vibe is so last season and all better i quite like it but will bear in mind for the future thank you once and for us to our brains edition when he says mr singer's name maybe could tweak the clips of him playing well taken but ryan just friends and hopefully can

before so there's a lot of complexity that goes into it well that we use for the life of richard branson flying amazing balloons around the world but is this unusual or is this indeed it is a part should we might be looking to to see individuals like ylem musk doing things we expect nasa to do well there's been a trend towards this since over the last twenty years with private venture capitalist or in masks case funded from his own dot com entrepreneurship going off and doing space projects partly because they're enthusiastic about it but also because they see that it's another area of business where destructive technologies could have a major impact and in them a lot of money very good to get your thoughts on this and we look forward to eventually happening some quietly very soon david clements thanks for joining us. the supreme court of the mall the fs has an old it so in order for the government to release a number of imprisoned opposition leaders this after the president accuses of engineering a coup president to mean you refuse to comply with the order instead of him posed a fifteen

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>> i met richard branson in an unlikely way.e became friends in the first time i met him we scaled the side of a hot air balloon together at 10,000 feet in the air and had tea on top of the balloon. [laughter] i tell people if you like a basically have ttheybasically ho become his friend. she did a show called the rebel billionaire and it was his version of the apprentice but instead of all the business challenge is taking place just in new york city, they took place around the world. we did not know a minor detail is that if you didn't win the fe business challenge instead of going to a board room and getting fired you would have to be world record-breaking stunt with richard. [laughter] >> the contract was 27 pages and it said we could cement you underwater, and i submitted it to my dad and said can you make some advice and he said no sane person would sign this, love dad. i signed it i richard and i became great friends. i climbed to the very end of that show and i was the last two contestants. i did challenges around the wor

brian he says interesting show always informative today poignant and the specs will thanks what i branson says remembering the holocaust basho yet emotional humbling and inspiring and then from diane he says another excellent show very respectful poignant and should never be forgotten thank you alex and thank you diane for teaching us len finlayson says very moving show this morning well done alex wish you could be on for longer a lot pass out on telly says billy and show alex i particularly like your bits to cab at the end highlights of my week well that's great to hear teddy but i'm so sorry i'm going to have to disappoint you this week when i'll be closing the shoe then we've got a message from bev it he says love the show watched everyone so far just one thing hit us studios bricked up windows the post zombie apocalypse survive if so last season and all that i quite like it but will bear in mind for the future thank you once and for us to our brains edition when he says this the thing was named maybe could tweak the clip of him playing well taken but ryan just friends and hopefully ca

was richard branson expecting his hopes that the u.k.ts exit course in a conversation at the goldman sachs 10,000 businesses summit. another european business leader sat down with bloomberg this week. sawcredit suisse leader that market volatility would give the bottom line a boost. means that people see it as a negative. it creates opportunity. for willeople we work see that as a key part of the it isgy and they -- really working. they understand markets. as aecognize volatility part of trade. we are increasing our trade revenues. management --set 16 billion euros -- two thirds of that come from our national connections. are there people saying they do not want to transact at the moment? we see a lot of activity in the secondary market. but the primary market issuers are reluctant to issue volatility. things seem to be settling down now. we do not believe that what we have seen is a major disruption. inevitable in was equities. -- has held upe very well. you have not seen a contagion which means the fundamental economy is healthy. unemp

space company called blue origin that has a huge factory just a few miles from here you have richard branson from the u.k. whose company virgin galactic and virgin orbital are trying to take advantage of this and even paul allen the former microsoft founder is pouring money into a new space launch vehicle so it's the twenty first century it's time for billionaires to get rockets and you know musk mission in the very far future i suppose is talking about being able to get to mars so maybe even building a colony i mean how much is science fiction oh how much could that actually be seen sometime in the future if you talk to scientists at nasa ville say it is technically feasible the question is getting enough money together to make it happen and that's why i must get all of these other billionaires are focused on lowering the cost of access to space so that you can have the resources to bring people to a martian colony you know musk in space x. say they're trying to launch their first missions by two thousand and twenty four that's probably really ambitious but within our lifetimes could we see

elon musk and richard branson. kennedy: and jeff bezos. think about other ways we talked about getting the government out of the epa or the faa or tsa. and how much waste and proud gets exposed when private enterprise can out lights the resources they have available. kennedy: if you have billionaires jockying for position and coming up with technologies to out maneuver each other, it gets us that much closer to flying cars. >> i love the "set sons" show i grew up watching on my parents' bedroom floor. they are also coming here from reports i read. kennedy: we'll need a bored wall in space. if you look at the fact we can take an uber shuttle from mars to which would probably be a lot of money. that's experience alone sounds like a great time to me. kennedy: if jeff bay zeens elon musk wants to create faster planes to get us from new york to l.a. in 45 minutes. i'm all for it. because you spent billions of dollars. doesn't mean you will have to keep doing that when the private sector can do it bert and cheaper. as the old saying goes, the ro

but richard branson did a reality show called "the rebel billionaire" and it was his version of "the apprentice" but instead of all the business challenges taking place in just new york city, they took place around the world. and what i didn't know, a minor detail, was that instead -- if you didn't win the business challenge, instead of going to a boardroom and getting fired, you would have to do a world record breaking death defying stunt with richard. okay? have i mentioned i'm terrified of heights, i'm afraid to fly, i get very -- i'm not kidding. yeah. so i have always been a fan of richard's. i read his book in college and when i found out he was doing a reality show, i thought this is cool, i'm an entrepreneur. i just never forget the contract was 27 pages and it basically said we can like submerge you under water, set you on fire, i e-mailed it to my dad, because my dad's a lawyer and said do you have any advice, can you make a few tweaks to this? all he wrote back was no sane person would sign this, love, dad. that's it. i signed it. and richard and i became great friends. i

china had previously said the construction is intended to improve peace and maritime security richard branson churchill insists on skype from singapore he's a senior fellow at the military transformation program at the s. rajaratnam on the school of international studies thank you very much for joining us what do you see when you see these pictures what do they tell you. well there's certainly a general. development of violence it was pretty intense a lot who says if you're going to the movies just in. great forward little settlements that look at bombs that are construction or a large building. on the turbines all solar powered animals. once he is the large number where you don't suppose a large golf ball shaped objects and shoes will not protect radar systems there is way too many in there who are all basically every day condo law on air traffic control rooms so what do you think their what their intentions be if if you had to guess and read the tea leaves what do you think well why are they things one this certainly gives them the. will and some substance which once we do know we only do m

founder: virgin air richard branson. he was speaking to jason kelly and washington, d.c.potlight on valentine's day. global cocoam the industry bitter or sweet? we have the outlook. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ kathleen: this is "daybreak asia ." i am kathleen hays in new york. yvonne: i am yvonne man in hong kong. a big day for chocolate lovers, my self -- myself included. they expect to see growth with the world cocoa prices expected to stay low. -- the consumer staples analyst joins us to talk about this. certainly good for the chocolate lovers out there. you think the prices are so low these days. but how does the industry look as a whole? >> we are looking at 2% to 3% growth. we believe asia, particularly emerging markets, will drive that growth. markets likek of china, indonesia, the philippines, it is low relative to more secure markets. yvonne: why is that? >> income levels are still just getting in to the adult population of consuming chocolate. players, they are looking to have sweets back and bring people to try them. as they start to expand, it will fuel consumption