and more worries about the safety of ride healing services as goober reveals thousands of sexual assaults on both passengers and drivers. this is your business report i'm stephen beers in berlin thanks for watching the trade wars starting to affect economic growth in the world's largest cities that's according to a new oxford economics report researchers say g.d.p. growth in 9 of the top 10 biggest global cities will slow in 2020 they said the trade war in a general global slowdown is having effect american high tech regions like silicon valley will be especially hard hit over the next few years a growth in china's 4 largest metropolitan areas beijing shanghai and pictured here has been around 10 percent per year for the last decade but that's expected to slow to 6 percent over the next 2 years and the fastest growing cities in the world are in india but despite booming growth rates in places like surat and bangalore overall those cities are economic lightweights when compared to the likes of new york london and tokyo now let's bring in our financial correspondent in singapore andrea hang

google or more to gether with france goober he created a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the christmas season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of business to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popular christmas carol of all time. the journey takes years to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of green cross be being crossed. by then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he live just outside palm springs in the small away series of rancho mirage. his company's offices however were located on hollywood sunset boulevard the building stone exists today. i grew up it was a big progress on. and we knew it in english from being crosby and we knew it in spanish because those were the 2 languages that were the most famous i would say in america but every schoolchild around the world will sing the song in their language and that's that's how you know the song is just completely transcendent p

when goober how was finally released she fled to istanbul like many other week is around 25000 now live here as snake religious and cultural ties with turkey have made building new lives easier for them they say but most week is a here because they feel safer in istanbul than in china. in this primary school in istanbul for example it is quite normal for the children to learn nneka. singing reading or writing in their mother tongue. the teachers see a say in china that would be impossible. china's ambassador to turkey considers the criticism to be unjustified he says his government has done a lot to develop the week a province change on and he rejects reports of human rights violations. that was the education centers are not prisons here they are not concentration camps. the media claim this in order to dramatize the situation. in fact these places are more like boarding schools with us and the human rights of the students are respected. so if you know where i have the impression that some media and others are. abusing this object to cast china's shinji on policy in a bad light just don

want to ask you the same question but from a different angle ok so i get a cheaper right with with goober but but the drivers are a poor forest. i mean there is no driver anywhere in the world that would say that making more money than making a better living working for ruger has. you know at the back of your question is what's happening with foreign direct investment and i'm afraid that we are for the long term we're going to see a continuous decline in 4 in the reg investment because there are 5 structural factors that are pushing it downward 1st this truck drove factor is geo political tensions this is not going to be resolved anytime soon this is a long term issue that chills flooring direct investment number 2 the digital economy that is changing the way companies are deciding where to locate that has a big impact on how we're going to be taxing need regulating it again chilling factor on foreign direct investment number 3 the fact that the recent no system of global governance for investment getting freck minted countries are doing this at the national other regional level best. num

you seem controversy of the 70 countries the right sharing company operates in london is banning goober for a 2nd time and as mayor says transport for london has uncovered a number of serious breaches some of those include at least 14000 occasions where somebody may have been using the. driver driving them as in the person they thought it was so these are all used drivers manipulate. to drive people around london when they should be doing lift is also under fire 1000 women sued the company this week saying led to failed to follow up on complaints or enact basic safety measures to prevent a sol's sandiego based attorney michael berger representing the left victim says quote lift does. and even tell our clients who the driver is so they can get a temporary restraining order he goes on to say what lift is doing on so many levels is done with the intent of silencing the victims and protecting their brand houston woman who says her lift driver took her on an alternate route into a warehouse when the car and called police over says it puts drivers through a vigorous background check but as of

goobers are open for you not really knowing you know george you know little what would you know about what you thought were going to be famous. for 24 hours these high school students are going to live eat and sleep in a role playing sanaa. much like 20 or so other participants all from middle class backgrounds each of them has paid 60 euros to participate. jenna darrelle came up with the idea 25 years ago with her husband a pastor the remarkable simulation project has so far had 30000 participants. but the goal is to create compassionate care for humanity and poverty everybody can get the american dream is that when you're trapped in poverty in the cycles of poverty you think i'd like to get you out if you want a defensive janitor role says in order to truly experience the life of a homeless person you have to start by looking like them in a secondhand store participants are encouraged to dress in appropriate clothes jeans and be a little bit. but i think that don that he didn't need to soften my. hair that time i'm happy about that right now it doesn't seem like too much of a challe

goobers chief legal officer said by releasing this study they hope to begin to address these safety concernst since 2017 there's been more than 5900 rates and sexual assault on uber's platform. also 97 crashes. uber says these types of problems are the exception and not the rule. stating critical incidents are statistically extremely rare. claiming there are more than 1 billion trips made with uber in the u.s. every year and 99.9% happen without problem. some people say they will give the company credit for publicly releasing this information. >> i think it is important for the public to know. good on them for doing that. >> i think publicly releasing it is pretty huge. a lot of universities have a huge problem with that and sweep it under the rug. at least they are trying to do something about it.>> attorneys representing victims of sexual assault also gave credit to uber for being transparent. but they say there are other safety measures, one of them, adding cameras and recording every trip as a deterrent for sexual assault and other crimes. also pointing out that on average only one out o

goober will also pay more than $14 million to sexual harassment claims. equal and women opportunity commission said uber permitted a culture of sexual harassment. the investigation began after several employees publicly detailed what they called a toxic and discriminatory work environment. >>> there is a renewed warning for people to stay out of creeks during rainy weather. officers had to arrest a homeless man in a creek yesterday. >>> 47 flights were canceled at sfo yesterday. more than 400 others were delayed because of unusual winds. planes were forced to use a different flightpath just to get to and from the airport because of southeastern winds. we talked to one passenger who said it was also difficult just getting to the airport. >> it took me about an hour to get here on a seven night $70 uber from the city, which is double what it normally is. kind of rough to get here today. >> sfo officials also remind you there could be more rather related problems when the next storm hits, which could be as soon as this weekend. oakland airport and san jose a

the peletons and goobers of the world. think in corporations today are benefiting from deregulation and decreased taxation that's been part of this administration. i think we will continue to see this happening to 2020 and companies trickle down those profits to consumers, which is why we have some of the strongest consumer numbers in the past 15 years that we are seeing. >> is cody is speaking we are running some of these full screens. we just had retailers trend of the consumer but we also have chip names up there. we have moved to the heights phase of technology where chips are everywhere and they're going to be everywhere. every thing that we can see that we are doing, the cloud, the internet, toward her movies on demand, all of that involves these chip names that we have on the screen. >> i will say, these percentage numbers are showing. it doesn't jive with the antics growth. the economy is great and the companies are all doing fabulous except for the unit currents that are blowing up. it doesn't really come it reall

and i had prepared remarks, and then i got into my goober -- my uber today on the way over here. i like toin an uber, put my headphones on and when my own business. the driver said, where are you going? ok. i am going to the newseum. why? and i said, well, i am doing this thing with the fbi. it is about black fbi agents. what? he says, "what? black fbi agents?" yes, black fbi agents. he was surprised. i was not really surprised that he was surprised. you probably are not either. -- it made me sort of chuckle, because looking back -- and i have had to do my research preparing for this -- there was james wormley jones in 1919. i did not know that. he did not want to believe it, the uber driver. james wormley jones. mentioned john glover . i get so caught up covering the fbi of today that i had not at in theked back past. when they asked me to do this, i would not be doing my job if i did not say, but are you going to talk about what the numbers are now? and they could have brushed off that question. i respect the fact they dealt with it. i was told, listen, you can't look to the fu