if we look into who will in particular, give us more detail on what the european competition commissionves google is doing wrong. so, the commission believes that google is abusing its market power, and there are three main strands to its concerns. the first one is that google is requiring smartphone manufacturers to p rei nsta ll smartphone manufacturers to preinstall google search and google chrome if they want to take the place talk. the second is allegations around exclusive obligations, they are also requiring smartphone manufacturers to take the google search functionality. and then a third element to their concerns, also called on defragmentation measures, which are requirements imposed by google that the smartphone manufacturers do not sell devices on a rival android systems. so that is the crux of the commission's concerns. —— play store. will argue is actually our business model increases competition. on what asus kennett say that? google would say and have been saying up till now that their business model actually allows them to bundle together what consumers want. -- on what

the european commission has launched an in-depth probe into a proposed merger between german conglomerate siemens and french rail transport company over competition concerts the companies agreed to merge their rail operations in march and expansion aimed at staving off growing challenges from chinese rivals but the european commission is worried that they might get too big and threaten competition within the transplant business. it's many a child's dream to become an astronaut but if you've wasted your life doing something else you may now have a chance to catch up with the help of amazon found jeff bezos for next year he'll shoot you into space for a bargain price. two hundred thousand dollars could buy you the trip of your dreams like say four years on a cruise ship circum never getting the world a total of thirteen times or you could be shot into space the first tickets will go on sale next year the initial trip will likely take tourists one hundred kilometers above earth where space begins at three times the speed of sound eleven minute voyage blue origin is the company behind it it's run by amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos who also happens to be the

. >> the european union says google broke the rules wanted acquired android manufacturers to preinstall certain browser apps. the european commission for competitionan unfair advantage. more than 80% of personal devices use google's android operating system. google says the free software benefits millions of users. >> android has played a key role in bringing opportunity to millions of people not just in europe but all over the world.>> google says it plans to appeal the decision which would also acquire -- require the company to -- smart phone. the court case could drag on for years.>> it's a drop in the bucket. just kidding, it's pretty serious because they have given them 90 days to comply they have to take that $5 billion and put it into a holding account which they cannot touch until these proceedings are done, so this dragging on for years is going to take some money out of google. the fact that they have to comply with these rules is also going to take some money out of them. what's they are being told to do is they must allow manufacturers to install whatever apps they want. right now google is saying in order to get access to the google p

essential to google's future revenues it's easy to make me a cause for the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. the european union and japan have sealed the deal to eliminate nearly all tar

the european commission for competition says -- >> you have engaged in illegal practices, to select a market decision in internet search. it must put an effective and to this contract within 90 days, or face a penalty payments. >> android played a key role to bringing opportunity to millions of people, not just in europe, but all over the world. >> google says it plans to appeal the decision. >> joining us via skype the washington post tech reporter giant brett -- ryan, to those of us or so people who don't know what a big advantage it is to get a phone and already have some things on it, because most likely, when you get the phone, you will start using what's on it right away. you're not going to seek out other things, correct? >> reporter: that's right, it's an incredibly powerful option for google to bundle his own proprietary apps and services on its android platform. android and google both this is an open platform that allows anyone to put their own apps on there, so therefore it's competitive, but there are echoes here of the microsoft case from the 1990s, when the u.s. regulat

. >>> just to bring you an update, the european commission for competition is going to be talking atntral european time, that's going to be about that potential fine for google around its dominance and potential abuse of the android operating system for mobiles abuse of the search space in particular bloomberg already reporting that fine could be as much as 5 billion u.s. dollars the european commission fine is expected to center on alleged business practices for google air round the android operating system >>> coming up, fed chair jay powell backs more rate hikes as he defends the benefits of free trade. more on that and his comments after this break plaque psoriasis can be relentless. your plaques are always there at the worst times. constantly interrupting you with itching, burning and stinging. being this uncomfortable is unacceptable. i'm ready. tremfya® works differently for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. with tremfya®, you can get clearer and stay clearer. in fact, most patients who saw 90% clearer skin at 28 weeks... stayed clearer through 48 weeks. tremfya

the european commission has launched an in-depth probe into a proposed merger between german conglomerate siemens and french rail transport company alstom of the competition concerns the company's agreed to merge their rail operations in march and expansion aimed at staving off growing challenges from chinese rivals but the european commission is worried they might get too big and threaten fair competition within the trade supply business. and that's only business when i'm going to have you back over to say thanks to a former bodyguard of the late al qaeda leader a son of a lot and is at the center of a tussle between the german government and german court first the government appointed him back to tunisia and the court ordered them back to germany the court says his removal bridged fundamental principles of the wall of law. the chartered plane. headed to. confirm that sami a was returned to tunisia and handed over to tunisian authorities he was accompanied by four german police officers on the flight. had lived in germany for over twenty years most recently in the city of where he was accused of radical islamist preaching the social democrat politicians

but you can't let the european commission of competition get away with it.ere's a billion plus android phones that ship every year. got to figure at least 100 million, probably multiple hundred millions ship into europe. you can shut them off but then you are hurting yourself. instead what i would do is i would say okay, let's create an activation fee, $50, 50 euros and not payable to google but payable to the eu. you would have to write a check or -- paul: so the individual user of the android phone would have to pay the fee. >> yes, don't even let them do it electronically. make them go to a bank or a post office. this thing would blow over in a week. there would be such an uproar and it would never happen. paul: people would blame the eu and not google. >> exactly. paul: are you sure? >> yes, it is just like the tariffs. if there's a tariff on my imported mercedes-benz, if i had to pay that money to the u.s. government rather than to the dealer i would go what do you mean i have to pay? paul: let me ask you another issue about google, market cap almost 90

essential to google's future revenues it's easy to make me a cause for the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. the european union and japan have sealed the deal to eliminate nearly all tar

to google's future revenues it's easy to make the video calls for to the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point of as no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to. their practices in terms of licensing of devices and road software and applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. al-jazeera paris well here's how google's c.e.o. sunday puts i responded via twitter rap

imposed by the european union on to the tech giant google for what it said was unfairly cornering the mobile phone market the european commission ruled that google had killed off the competition by forcing phone manufacturers to adopt its services to use them such as the web search chrome and maps as well as other services while it also accused the tech giant of using incentives as a way of forcing these phone manufacturers to use just their own services but this is not the first time that the e.u. has made such a decision on unfair practices back in two thousand and eight it fined microsoft one point three five billion dollars for its dominance in the software market as well taking into consideration that microsoft is still a market leader but at the time it had been dominating the market meanwhile this is not the first case where google has hacked forced to back down from its dominance in china and in russia it cannot be the only search engine provider for mobile phone networks it has to allow other competitors in the meantime there is the question of whether this is too little too late perhaps this may only be a fraction of the tech giants revenues but the question is with

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effects and so i think the european commission's position here has been very much that these companies have a special responsibility to act fairly and not in french competition i think that explains a number of interventions that are taken by the european commission. is two thousand and nine hundred ten ing out to be a decisive year for facebook well i mean in terms of facebook i think it's been it's been particularly hard hit by some of the concerns that have arisen. over over the different scandals that have taken place in terms of the access to data and the use of the data particularly related to elections and i think that's how to affect i think also there's and that's that's a sort of natural trend in any market people particularly i would say the younger generations are looking for a other tools and moving to other areas other ops and platforms so there is a sort of a natural trend i think linked to the sort of hit that they've taken from this sort of privacy abuses and to place related to bricks at another other referendums and elections are more in the last year or so i think this is hard surface and negative effect is that the pick of facebook. i'm

but you can't let the european commission of competition get away with it.he following. there's a billion plus android phones that ship every year. got to figure at least 100 million, probably multiple hundred millions ship into europe. you can shut them off but then you are hurting yourself. instead what i would do is i would say okay, let's create an activation fee, $50, 50 euros and not payable to google but payable to the eu. you would have to write a check or -- paul: so the individual user of the android phone would have to pay the fee. >> yes, don't even let them do it electronically. make them go to a bank or a post office. this thing would blow over in a week. there would be such an uproar and it would never happen. paul: people would blame the eu and not google. >> exactly. paul: are you sure? >> yes, it is just like the tariffs. if there's a tariff on my imported mercedes-benz, if i had to pay that money to the u.s. government rather than to the dealer i would go what do you mean i have to pay? paul: let me ask you another issue about google, mark

this is the european competition commissioner announcing the fine wednesday. >> today the commissionas to set it to fine google for .reaching eu antitrust rules google has engaged in illegal practices for its market position in internet search. amy: and thailand, 1 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave last week were released from a hospital on tuesday, appearing happy after an 18-day or deal they grabbed international headlines. after they were released, the boys appeared with her soccer coach at a press conference, telling reporters were overjoyed when a pair of british divers first discover them nine days after they became trapped and mourning the death of one of the thai divers who tried to rescue them. in california, hot weather and bone-dry conditions have fueled a number of wildfires, including a 26-square-mile fire raging near yosemite national park. one firefighter has died and two others have been injured battling the blaze. the fires are beining fueled by thousands of trees that died during an unprecedented drought that's gripped california for most of the last several years

essential to google's future revenues it's easy to make me a cause for the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. or paris well david mccabe is a technology reporter at x. the office an onlin

but the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy or google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior so you go. paris and you can always find more on our website sarah dot com. and here's a reminder for our top stor

to google's future revenues it's easy to make the video calls for to the european commission found google had. blocked competition by force and phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. al-jazeera paris still ahead an old resume of the first commercial flight f

imposed by the european union on to the tech giant google for what it said was unfairly cornering the mobile phone market the european commission ruled that google had killed off the competition by forcing phone manufacturers to adopt its services to use them such as the web search chrome and maps as well as other services as well it also accused the tech giant of using incentives as a way of forcing these phone manufacturers to use their own services but this is not the first time that the e.u. has made such a decision on unfair practices back in two thousand and eight it fined microsoft one point three five billion dollars for its dominance in the software market as well taking into consideration that microsoft is still a market leader but at the time it had been dominating the market meanwhile this is not the first case where google has had to force to back down from its dominance in china and in russia it cannot be the only search engine provider for mobile phone networks it has to allow other competitors in the meantime there is the question of whether this is too little too late perhaps this may only be a fraction of the tech giants revenues but the question is with thi

effects and so i think the european commission's position here has been very much that these companies have a special responsibility to act fairly and not in french competition i think that explains a number of interventions that are taken by the european commission. is two thousand and nine hundred ten ing out to be a decisive year for facebook well i mean in terms of facebook i think it's been it's been particularly hard hit by some of the concerns that have arisen. over over the different scandals that have taken place in terms of the access to data and the use of the data particularly related to elections and i think that's how to affect i think also there's and that's that's a sort of natural trend in any market people particularly i would say the younger generations are looking for a other tools and moving to other areas other ops and platforms so there is a sort of a natural trend i think linked to the sort of hit that they've taken from this sort of privacy abuses and to place related to bricks at another other referendums and elections are more in the last year or so i think this is hard certain negative effect is that the pick of facebook. i'm not

competitive balance. they are key to ensuring an effective rules — based they are key to ensuring an effective rules —based system for international trade. the european commissioncurrently responsible for undertaking trade remedies investigations and imposing measures on behalf of the uk. the government is establishing the tra to ensure the uk can continue to provide a safety net for domestic industries after we left the eu and i'm grateful to members on both sides of the house for the support they've given on this issue. specifically the tra will be responsible for making an assessment in a case based on evidence available, it will then make impartial recommendations to ministers including protection from goods which are heavily subsidised or dumped in the uk market at below domestic price. it also includes injury caused by unforeseen surges in imports. the investigative and decision—making framework that the tra will be responsible for delivering a set out in the taxation cross—border trade deal. the government commitment to establishing the tra has been recognised by stakeholders of producers and consumers. the public bill committee was told by the british c

according to politico, trump has claimed that the eu competition commissioner hates the united states and, in a g7 meeting with european commission that shesident said really hates the u.s.. in the press conference you attended, caroline, she responded to what the president said. take a listen. >> i have done my own fact attaching -- fact checking. this is 100% correct. i work with tax and i am a woman. this is not correct for the latter part of the sentence. i very much like the u.s.. was the euline, prepared for this kind of backlash from the united states and perhaps directly from the president? >> i think she was. she prayed herself from saying fake news but this is generally a woman who has plenty of criticism that she targets the u.s. successful tech companies. some claim she does this too but -- two put europe up and pushed back of the tech companies. expecting criticism from donald trump, she dodged that question trying to focus on similarities and the fact that they have shared views in terms of the customer comes first. what she is saying is that no, she does not in any way have an issue with dominance of google in the

european commission's postal green paper which was a policy study that came out in 1992. the paper said in 350 pages that the european countries needed to move toward more competition and more specific definition of universal service. the establishment of independent regulators to ensure both fair competition and universal service. in australia, a similar, another government commission came out with similar results in the new zealand which was the leader in all of this, they had adopted a law 1990 that seem to point to abolition of the monopoly in 1992, the first in any country. however, in all fronts, these various progressive ideas were met with political pushback. in new zealand reform came to a stop because the government changed and it wasn't until another change of government that the new zealand postal reform act was adopted in 1998. in australia the recommendations of the industry commission were ignored until 1998 they appointed another industry commission whose recommendations for more liberal position were also ignored. the postal green paper was the subject of studies encounter debates for five years before the europeans final and finally adopted it. is a framew

best use of the european commission's time or if they should allow the market to continue to innovate and recognise that some of these practices don't actually have that kind of competitionack later. and we shall have a legal expert in to discuss the google story as well. lots more to come in the programme. including, 25 yea rs come in the programme. including, 25 years after the death of kurt cobain, there is an exhibition about the life of the former nirvana singer. the flamboyant italian fashion designer, gianni versace, has been shot dead in florida. the multimillionaire was gunned down outside his home in the exclusive south beach district of miami. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worst floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally called the great white way by americans, but tonight it's completely blacked out. it's a timely reminder to all americans of the problems the energy crisis has brought to them. 200 years ago today, a huge parisian crowd stormed the bastille prison, the first act of the revolution which was to topple the french monarchy. today, hundreds of thousands

european union e.u. and you trust agents have been investigating contracts with phone manufacturers forcing them to pre install google services on an droid devices competition commission. says google used android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. to find a four point three four billion euros reflects the seriousness and the sustained nature of violation you and your trust rules the decision required to bring its illegal conduct to an end within ninety days in an effective manner. as a technology journalist joins me now from our london studio good to have you with us on al-jazeera and it's another huge slap on the hands for google but don't all companies like this microsoft apple for example look to enhanced that sort of tech profile with the consumer all the phones. well yes everybody wants a slice of that market google have managed to maintain that government by giving away android to phone manufacturers but although they said when they launched in two thousand and eight me personally said it to me and they said to other journalists we're giving it away we'll make it open source that means that anybody can modify it and play with it because a

european commission says google broke the law of installing the google search and chrome apps as a condition of licensing. the eu commissioner for co competition says that is not allowed. >> in this way, google has used android as a vehicle to cement dominance as a search engine. this practice has denied rivals a chance to innovate and compete on the merits. they denied european consumers the benefit of effective competition in the very important mobile atmosphere. >> google says it has not reduced consumer choice, but if the eu wins on appeal, google has to change its relationship in europe. investors don't seem worried. shares barely budged after the fine announced. >>> a possible stumbling block for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. he said he would like to see the st statute overturned. >> can you think of a case that deserves to be overturned? >> yes. >> would you volunteer one? >> no. >> pending confirmation hearing. yes, sir. right here. >> thank you very much. >> would say one. morrison. it has been effectively overruled. i would put the final nail in. >> kavanaugh worked under the independent councsel law when h was part of the c

european commission has officially war and they are willing to retaliate with tariffs of their own on three hundred billion dollars worth of u.s. imports if mr trump carries out his threat you competition commissioner cecilia malmstrom addressed the brewing battle earlier today a car can be bought in seattle assembled into troy having been designed by a german built with a mexican chassis. and kenny guinn engine parts this is how trait is when we're trying to do so i'm do these links with her to companies are consumers and the communities built around these industries it would do i'm told damage to our economies and it would damage friendship and creates tension. in the meantime the rest of the world is not waiting around for mr trump to decide how far he wants to take the fight on wednesday european union leaders and prime minister of japan signed a trade agreement that will scrap almost all tariffs between japan and the e.u. in a ceremony in tokyo the deal was agreed to last july and european commission president john claude juncker and european council president donald tusk joined japan's prime minister shinzo abi at the signing ceremony for a defacto display of international opposi

thailand also coming up the european commission has internet giant google with a record fine of four point three billion euros it says the online search engine breached competition rules with its android operating system for smartphones and tablets also a new report out here in germany says anti semitism is on the rise we meet a jewish restaurant owner who says he's facing a spike in threats and abuse plus reconciliation efforts in mosul a year after so-called islamic state was driven out of iraq's second city in an exclusive report we follow a district mayor trying to build a lasting peace from the rooms by the fears the task may take a hundred years. and south africa marxists and tenor of former president nelson mandela's birthday will take a look at the empty apartheid icons legacy both at home and elsewhere around the world. the man. i am. mark it's great to have you along everyone and we begin our broadcast with some much needed good news that doesn't tie voices that more than two weeks trapped in a flooded cave have spoken to the media about their ordeal after a daring rescue they call the miracle they spent the past week recovering in a hospital in chiang

european commission has condemned today has enabled google to commandeer a great majority of data relating to individuals use -- individual's use of their android mobile phones. oracle is involved in that area. sometimes the competitioneen excluded and we would like things to be opened up there. , a smallerlla browser, is one of the companies that is happy about this result. --k to us about how this now google is appealing, we should say. this now could open up room for some of these smaller competitors. >> as much as google has said it is going to appeal, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will put a stop to the 90-day deadline they have to be in accordance with the law, with european law. there is a slight possibility that a court will delight that -- delay that 90 day deadline, .ut it seems very slim after that, google will have to start paying fines if it doesn't meet the standards that have been set. crucially, this is not going to affect anyone's phone they have in their hand right now. it's really about new phone sales and the agreements they have behind the scenes with those phone makers. they agreed that phone makers might make it easier for them to preinstall other applications on their phones, but given

european juncker, sees things as competitive. it is a very bottom-line discussion. juncker is the man to talk to. within the eu, the commissionhis case, trade, he is the man to talk to. it will be tough. he does not have a mandate to offer a deal. francine: what will come out of it? the tweet suggesting they get rid of all subsidies and tariffs. i mean, that would never happen in one million years. >> there was a very difficult negotiation, which trump was allowed to stall but it was already in trouble because it attacks the sensitive areas on both sides of the atlantic. that is a very difficult proposition. he wants wants, something dramatic. he wants a concession. will go for is a process. a process that will avoid a full-blown trade war. that is the difficulty. and thehin this marc, trade battle, is a reality. this is whirlpool, thanks to norman for having us on twitter, the president's election, here is the equity markets, the fall off and the gradient on this chart is the plunge. you wonder where the whirlpool is going. doesn't really care about washing machines and dryers in the united states but it is fitting and toget