former top executives at france telecom arrive in court to hear a france telecom arrive in court to hearamning verdict. they and their company were guilty of moral harassment, bullying starting to anxiety and depression and in the worst cases, suicide. forfamily members of those who died, the judgement was a vindication of ten yea rs of judgement was a vindication of ten years of campaigning. translation: we are satisfied because of what the president of the court said. she said that the procedures used by the management of france telecom were forbidden. this answers the one question that was the fundamental question that was the fundamental question throughout the whole process. should we be able to do these sorts of things? at least the first response of the court is no, it is not acceptable, and if you do that you will be convicted. it all happened when france telecom, formerly a state monopoly, was having to transform itself to face the competition. the old ways were going. what was needed was fewer staff and new skills. but in pressurising workers to adapt or leave, the court found f

also coming up a landmark ruling in france telecom's company orange is guilty of driving its employees to suicide. and the charity raffle in paris hopes to raise big bucks by optioning off of work for one of the great masters for. this sort of business report from steve beers in berlin thanks for watching it's a 1st in u.s. history the economy has expanded for 126 consecutive months that also means is the 1st time the country has recorded an entire calendar decade without a recession both milestones were reported today by the national bureau of economic research to be fair the expansion began at a very low point the end of the great recession and has been uneven with job growth slow at 1st and wages picking up later but things been booming since donald trump became president aided by his tax cut stimulus and moves to slash regulation. now one sign of that booming economy is the record breaking u.s. markets s. and p. 500 on friday hit a record high for the 7th straight trading session nikkei didn't get the memo however its shares did it despite a strong earnings report revenue for the 2

a parisian court has found france telecom and its executives guilty of moral harassment of employees. we talk more about this case. as legegal first in france the giant became the firirst of ththe -- company being found guilty of institutionalized harassment. former c.e.o. didier lombard rereceived a one year prison sentence and was orderer to pay a fine. >> guilty of institutionalized moral harassment. that's the verdict in a closely watched case that dates back over a decade. >> the conviction is certainly a relief for the families of the victims. however, this judgment will not bring back our colleagues who took their lives as a result of the extremely violent management process that took place at the time. >> starting in 2006, a wave of suicides took place at france telecom, now known as orange. during this period, 19 employees killed themselves and a dozen more made attempts. others fell into a deep depression. this all occurring when the company was trying to cut 22,000 jobs. former c.e.o. didier lombard and other executives were accused of putting in place a policy of systemic

very closely followed here in france a gangsta a telecom company or the country's biggest a judge has found a guilty of collective moral harassment a first ruling of its kind. once known as france telecom now known as- owns the firm has been fined some seventy five thousand euros. as well as hundreds of thousands more in damages it's sexy- digit on bombing while has been sentenced to four months in prison. cell after court examine management techniques between two thousand six in two thousand nine. time in which france telecom underwent a difficult restructuring and one which scores employees committed suicide in battled work related depression. here's how the head of a major labor union at the firm reacted to the ruling. we see that's what i'm gonna do conviction is certainly a relief for the families of the victims. of the victims who are still alive. however this judgment will not bring back our colleagues who took their lives as a result of the extremely violent management practices that took placace at the time. on on us at the back. nextxtstep a apparent progressss in us china t

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france telecom was under siege back in 2006 when a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20000 employees lose their jobs the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers and scores of employees were so desperate they were driven to suicide. this man d.d.a. lombard was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. not on the. today at paris court ruled that the company now known as orange bears legal responsibility for the suicides and as sentenced to 4 months in prison for the illegal methods used to help the company shed thousands of workers lombards lawyer says he will appeal the verdict. in. the company needs to move all in a cocktail they need to put this trial behind them it's up to oranges board now to decide what they want to do next to appeal or not respect and i respect that. but as far as the physical people in this trial are concerned it's a whole different story and it's normal that they will appeal. to the. relatives of the victims want to see an example set he just he should do why did the others allow themselves to behave thi

france telecom was under siege back in 2006 when a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20000 employees lose their jobs the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers and scores of employees were so desperate they were driven to suicide. this man d.d.a. lombard was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. today a paris court ruled that the company now known as orange bears legal responsibility for the suicides and as sentenced lombardo to 4 months in prison for the illegal methods used to help the company shed thousands of workers lombards lawyer says he will appeal the verdict. and. the company needs to move all in a cocktail they need to put this trial behind them it's up to oranges board now to decide what they want to do next to appeal or not respect and i respect that. but as far as the physical people in this trial are concerned it's a whole different story and it's normal that they will appeal. because until the. relatives of the victims want to see an example set me just to see q why did the others allow themselves to behave

again france's largest telecoms company and its former chief executive have been found guilty of moral and following a series of staff suicides during the 2000 and france telecom which is since been rebranded as orange had recently been privatized it was being restructured at the time that process caused thousands of job cuts and thousands more employees were placed in different roles which were often described as degrading as a result of the stress caused by the overhaul 1000 workers took their own lives a court is now ordered orange to pay a 75000 euro fine and sentence the former c.e.o. as well as 2 other former executives to time in prison we heard from some of the victims' relatives. and. we are satisfied and happy 1st and foremost because according to the extracts from the letter that were read out to us by the court what happened is we recognize as wrong this is a reprehensible error wanted to be of the. i'm glad that this guilty verdict has been delivered the decision we expected it was very important for the victims to be heard i'm very grateful to my lawyers and to everyone w

there's been a lot of legal ruling in france the country's biggest telecoms company and its former c.e.o. were found guilty of moral harassment on friday in connection with a string of employees suicides back in the 2000 france telecom now known as orange had recently been privatized and was being restructured but then the process entailed thousands of job cuts thousands more employees were placed in different sometimes degrading roles as a result the case caused. by this overhaul as a result of it 19 workers took their own lives so bad was the stress the court has ordered orange now to pay a 75000 euro fine and sentence the ex c.e.o. as well as 2 former executives to time in prison we hear from some of the victims' relatives so successful that we are satisfied and happy 1st and foremost because according to the extracts from the letter that were read out to us by the court what happened has been recognized as wrong as a reprehensible error. i'm glad that this guilty verdict has been delivered it was a decision we expected it was very important for the victims to be heard i'm very gratef

ago didier was convicted for his actions during a restructuring of the company then known as france telecom prosecutors listed 18 suicides and 13 suicide attempts between 20082010 will not go to jail as he is not deemed a danger to society lawyers believe it could set a president for similar action against other launch firms he said i fear didn't use them or minnie arkell it's been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives of the time of their accomplices the company we were there for extremely satisfied with the sentencing. on them it's the emotion of the sentencing won't bring our colleagues back. well on the developments france's find us internet giant google $166000000.00 off to accusing it of abusing its dominance in the marketplace for online advertisement google lets advertisers bid for keywords that will bring up their clickable content the french competition authority set the rules concerning the bidding a mega not applied equally sold at the company to be more transparent google says it plans to

reporter: france telecom was under siegege back in 2006.hen a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20,000 employees lose their jobs. the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers. scores of employees were so desperate, they were driven to suicide. this man was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. today a paris court ruled that the company, now known as orange, bears legal responsibility for the suicides and has sentenced lumbar to four months in prison for the illegal methods used to help the company shed thousands of workers. lombards lawyer says he will appeal. >> the company needs to move on. they need to put this trial behind them. it is up to orange's board now, to appeal or not. i respect that.t. as far as the physical people are concerned, it is a whole different story. it is normal that they will appeal. reporter: relatives of the victims want to see an example set. >> white did lombard and the others allllow themselves to behave this way? it is because they felt they could

bug was convicted for his actions during the restructuring of the of the company then known as france telecom prosecutors listed 18 suicides and 13 suicide attempts between 20082010 bob will not go to jail as he's not deemed a danger to society. lawyers believe it could set a precedent for similar action against other large firms. i fear just don't use them or many it's been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives of the time of their accomplices the company we were there for extremely satisfied with the sentencing. and then it's the emotion of the sentencing will bring our colleagues back well some of the news france has fined us internet giant google a $166000000.00 after accusing it of abusing its dominance in the marketplace for online advertisement google lets its advertisers bid for keywords that will bring up that clickable content french competition authority said the rules concerning the bidding of a can not applied equally to audit the company to be more transparent google says it will appeal. n

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in france the former head of the country's largest telecoms company are and has been found guilty of charges of harrison that led to a series of workers suicides a decade ago that he alone bad was convicted for his actions during a restructuring of the company then known as france telecom prosecutors listed 18 suicides and 13 suicide attempts at in 20082010 will not go to jail as he's not deemed a danger to society lawyers believe it could set a president for a similar action against large fans. i fear the use of more minnie arkell it's been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives of the time of their accomplices the company we're there for extremely satisfied with the sentencing. and then it's the emotion of the sentencing won't bring our colleagues back. now the developments france's find us internet giant google $166000000.00 after accusing it of abusing its dominance in the marketplace for online investments google lets advertisers bid for keywords that bring up that clickable content french

last month on friday in connection with a string of employee suicides back in the 2000 years france telecom which has since been renamed orange had then recently been privatized and was being restructured and that process entailed thousands of stressful job cuts is the allegation thousands more employees were placed in different sometimes degrading roles as a result of the stress caused by the overhaul 19 workers took their own lives their court now was ordered orange to pay a 75000 euro fine and sentence the ex c.e.o. as well as 2 former executives to time in prison we heard from some of the victim's relatives so successful but we are satisfied and happy 1st and foremost because according to the extracts from the letter that were read out to us by the court what happened has been recognized as wrong as a reprehensible error wanted to be of the. i'm glad the guilty verdict has been delivered it was a decision we expected it was very important for the victims to be heard i'm very grateful to my lawyers and to everyone who supported us it is highly significant that up until now moral harassme

in paris, the verdict is due on the trial of former bosses of france telecom. harrassment and linked to a series of suicides among workers a decade ago. switzerland is due to close down its first nuclear reactor as part of the country's programme to phase out nuclear power. and boeing will launch a test—flight of its starliner passenger spacecraft. it will be unmanned and will fly from nasa's cape canaveral base in florida to the international space station. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. hello, this your friday sport briefing. i'm ben croucher. we will start with cricket, where the kolkata knight riders have made australian paceman pat cummins the most expensive overseas player in indian premier league history. he will earn around $2.2 million from next year's tournament. he said he was absolutely pumped to be returning to the side for whom he played in 201a and 2015. glenn maxwell, chris morris and eoin morgan also fetched more than $1 million in the auction. dare say liverpool might feel they have picked up a bargain, with sa

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news on one ofng the big telecom operators in france.y are targeting a new average of 3% growth in 2021 through 2023. part of the big restructuring here, they are joining that big infrastructure selloff. they will sell major parts of the network including mobile phone towers. it is france's biggest phone tariff. 1500 sites in spain for 260 million euros. this is the very latest from them. it's about getting partnership for 5g rollout in creating power companies in most european companies. spain will return to growth by 2021. the dividend goal is $.70 a share over the next three years. big shakeup. we will see how that shock -- stop changes on the open. nejra: it's an industry push to hive off this network infrastructure into separate businesses to boost its value and bring in new investors. there is a demand for those assets among funds seeking reliable investment returns. let's check in on the markets around the world. let's kick it off with you. we've had pmi data out of india today. how are equities trading off of the back of that? th

now the former chief executive of the largest telecom company in france has been sentenced to a year in prison following a series of suicides by workers the former boss of orange today along barred was convicted of moral harassment that's defined as any abusive behavior that degrades the well being of others orange previously acknowledged the suffering of victims but denies any intention to harass employees he said i feel. more money it's been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives at the time of their accomplices the company you're there for extremely satisfied at the sentencing. and then it's the emotion of the sentencing bring our colleagues back from his find google $166000000.00 for abusing its dominance in online adverts google system allows advertisers to bid on keywords that will then bring up their clickable content the french competition with r.c. says the u.s. company needs to be more open in the way it operates because current rules are vague and applied on the. now muslim countries

the former chief executive of the largest telecoms company in france has been sentenced to a year in prison following a series of suicides by workers former boss of orange did on bar was convicted of moral harassment that's defined as any abusive behavior that degrades the wellbeing of others or previously acknowledged the suffering of victims around 10 years ago but denies any intention to harass employees. 24 hours after the house of representatives impeached him donald trump is demanding an immediate trial in the u.s. senate's trump is only the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached but the house speaker nancy pelosi says she won't refer the case to the republican controlled senate until she knows it will get fair treatment from trunk's party the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is describing the impeachment as talks like meanwhile the democrats who once are placed on a have faced off in another debates they were in agreement about the impeachment but little else as rob reynolds reports from los angeles to impeachment was topic number one all the candidates support pr

telecoms giants who build their 5 g.m. for. it's official in a $50000000000.00 deal france's p.s.a. group benfield chrysler will join forces to create the world's 4th largest co-operatives. this is business asia. as welcome the controversy over who always role as a supplier for 5 g. network infrastructure is heating up of the china's a basket germany of excluding walwa hardware from the country's 5 g. networks and reportedly threatened german comic is with repercussions chancellor angela merkel said today that she had no knowledge of any pressure from china critics are concerned that huawei is too close to the chinese states and that it might use its technology to spy on foreign countries in an exclusive interview with the w y c o c e o young says all occasions are unfounded it looks like a renaissance castle in the middle of europe but it is actually only a modern replica and part of the research and development operations at china's tech supreme oh why.

telecoms giant to build that 5 g. infrastructure. also to show its official in a $50000000000.00 deal france's p.s.a. group french fear of christ will join forces to create the world's 4th largest companies. business business africa and africa global business news here on. as welcome and we start in ghana where the local currency is under pressure again it's not just recently the city is heading for its 25th straight year of the prescience against the dollar at korti to prove data overshooting fiscal deficit and debt is one source of the weakness investors are concerned that the government won't stick to its spending targets after next year's election this year the city has lost 15 percent that's pretty close to the biggest and the decline in 2015 when the currency slumps 18 percent. the controversy over who always roll as apply a full 5 g. network infrastructure is heating up china's ambassador to berlin warn germany of excluding weiwei where from the country's 5 g. network and we've reported these threatened german comic has with repercussions chancellor angela merkel said today that she had no kno

course we will keep you up—to—date with what's happening in france and any disruption that strike is causing throughout the day. the chinese telecoms from using a government fund to buy the technology last month. at a news conference, senior executives from huawei said there was no evidence the company was a threat to us national security. a shooting at a us military base at pearl harbour in hawaii has left three people dead— including the gunman. the killer — believed to be a sailor — opened fire shooting dead two people before killing himself. it's thought the victims are us military contractors. one person has been injured. the headlines on bbc news... with a week to go before the country goes to the polls — the main parties are pushing their big election pledges — with a week to go before the country goes to the polls — the main parties are pushing their big election pledges — the tories on tax, labour on schools and the lib dems on business. half of eurostar trains are cancelled as a huge nationwide strike in france gets underway causing travel chaos across europe. a warning of ‘hidden' waiting lists as bbc research discovers