seven thousand was a gemini and tons of passengers more congo than will profit than ever before c.e.o. customs for had plenty of good news to share with the carrier shareholders at the annual meeting on tuesday but aviation experts say the challenge for the airline will to be keep the good to keep the good times rolling he owns the end of the year . tender reported a smooth landing at its annual stockholder meeting germany's leading airline reported it carried more passengers than ever before and defended its position as europe's largest airline in twenty seventeen. thanks to higher income in its cargo logistics and maintenance units lufthansa is looking at its most profitable year in the company's history. the bottom line tonnes us on net profits jumped by a third to almost two point four billion euros and its free cash flow which allows the airline to maintain its fleet and paper new acquisitions almost doubled to two and one quarter billion euros. and that's cash look tons and needs thanks to millions in additional costs associated with acquiring parts of now defunct air berlin. at stockhol

customers that's around population. the merger will have to face the scrutiny of regulators in washington. it's a big deal and this video featuring the c.e.o.'s of sprint and t. mobile is proof that two wireless carriers are doing what they can to get everyone on their side they say the merger will help them better deliver mobile services to customers in particular the latest and greatest five g. technology i'm only system eight that america early for leadership in millions of jobs in this country and billions in u.s. g.d.p. i mean five g. the stakes are even higher just to put this in perspective the deferred to afford five g. is the difference between black and white t.v. i'm color t.v. but that may not be the most important thing of untied trust authorities may say the deal could harm competition much like they did in two thousand and fourteen and some analysts believe the merger could be subject to more scrutiny because both team obama and sprint owned by foreign companies but germany's deutsche telekom and tokyo based soft bank group so t. mobile and sprint have their work cut out for them if this deal is to see the light of day. well

c.e.o. elon musk's did little to ease investors' fears instead during a conference call he refused to answer and list questions calling them so dry and not school meanwhile customers interest doesn't appear to be waning there are no more than four hundred fifty thousand people on waiting lists for tesla. now let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt but really is tesla in danger of going out of business. i think if you ask that directly that is because as you said it's burning cash at record amounts and the bill just keeps adding up but the stock still at a comparatively high level for such a small company which has never made a profit it's still worth about what ford is worth in the stock market and that shows how to say yes to investors are they reaction to these numbers for this quarter they are negative the stock is dropping but you know as long as there's still such a valuable stock if iran last contests like gets into any trouble financially they can always sell a few shares and raise a few billion so it's going to take a while but you know when i talk to people who observe the car industry as analysts say they shake their heads and say how doe

c.e.o. iran mufc wants to build a city on mars. amazon finder jeff bezos wants to fly to mars on the moon with his company blue arjun taking paying customers along for the ride. british entrepreneur richard branson also believes space tourism is set to take off in his virgin galactic customers could one day pay two hundred thousand dollars to be experience five minutes of zero. privacy in space are these just off the wall ideas like dreams. we ask. he's currently setting up a space museum near the swiss and she of zurich. he just may also want to billions are being pumped into this is that anything more than a dream. need to take it seriously if you look at space x. for example musk set up the company in two thousand and two with thirty employees in two thousand and eight they celebrated their first successful launch today the company has seven thousand employees and has already launched more than forty rockets at the store to. liftoff docking world in march last year space x. became the first to relaunch a used rocket into space it was the start of a new era in space flight the booster rocket separated from its payload and returned to ear

c.e.o. elon musk did little to ease investors' fears instead during a conference call who refused to answer analysts question calling them so dry and not cool meanwhile customer interest doesn't appear to be waning there are no more than four hundred fifty thousand people on waiting lists for a tesla. so does that mean that tesla is in danger of going out of business let's bring in in frankfurt. most finding questions not cool i mean is he serious just this one remark cost over two million billion dollars in market capitalization is must losing his grip on reality here and how important is he has a person for tesla anyway. he's all important his vision is what is keeping investors interest interested and i think his selling abilities performance ability i would liken it to that of steve jobs about full. well jobs was much more successful economically in the end but investors are lapping up in mosques and visions but the analysts are certainly not amused by having their questions being called dry or not so cool that's totally unprofessional and that's that it's almost childish i would say. and it shows the it's kind of thin skinned reaction to obviously critic

customers and investors. you know i think that there is a level of authenticity with this c.e.o. unlike other incidents that we've seen here in the states this c.e.o. stood up pretty immediately and said that this company would take action obviously this is obviously a p.r. tragedy that no company wants to face right but he could've just ignored it he could've just moved on we've had other incidents here particular yeah i think a great example is the waffle house horrible incidents there and their owners have really done nothing as a result at least was starbucks they've started to make a change in terms of taking the other president an act of shutting down thousands of stores having some level of racial bias training isn't enough no but i do believe they do deserve some recognition that they are moving in the right direction and i think it would be great if other companies would sort of take their lead and be more proactive when they have racist incidents like this occur in their establishments and you just mentioned the waffle house just for our international viewers that there