anchor: kate moody with today's business.nd i will be back at half past nine with the top stories, so don't go away. vx [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> it woululd be difficulult tok about impeachment of a president a month into his term. with this s president, i it is y appropriate. amy: donald trump has been in office for 30 days. there are voices calling for his impeachment.

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time for the business news next with kate moody.rting out with a break through at the german airline lufthansa. >> the carrier has been plagued for about three years by pilot strikes, unions calling for higher pay and better working conditions. the airline and unions have agreed to a deal set forth by a mediator. that took off three years ago appears to have arrived at its final destination. germany's largest airline accepted a new wage agreement for 5400 pilots. in four stages, the tonsil will give ae their salary and 30 million euro bonus. increasing payrolls until 2019. it represents a 5000-6000 euro increase per pilot. the company says it will be staffing 40 new claims with employees who are not part of the labor agreement to make that some of the funds. the can strike over three years of cost the airline close to a half alien euros. the latest strike in november alone cost the flagship carrier $100 million although it still managed to post record profits of 1.7 billion euros last year. batons says it must continue with cost-cut

now it is time for business and kate moody is back on set. another day and another executive order from u.s. president donald trump, targeting financial regulations. guest: this is one of the things he talked about on the campaign trail. now he has just signed an order that will have his department review the dodd frank act that will rollback restrictions on wall street. the aim was to rein in big banks and prevent them from taking too many risks. trump and his advisers, some of in theve been leaders financial industry say that the rules are ineffective and make it difficult to do business. the president has described dodd frank as a disaster. he was to make changes to financial regulations, among other issues with his advisory board. there was no consensus about what regulations there should in fact be. notably absent from that meeting in washington was the head of uber. role as an economic adviser to the trump administration, saying it has been -- saying he has been misinterpreted. it below -- a blow to the trump rant. norstrom says they wi

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time for business news with kate moody. starting with the protest movement in the united states. te: restaurants in particular are leading this strike, called "a day without immigrants." the idea came from foreign-born workers who wanted to protest donald trump's crack on immigration by not showing up to work. in a show of solidarity or their own process, many restaurants are -- protest, many restaurants are closing. over 20% of the workforce was born outside of the united states, making immigrants a key contributor to the economy. reporter: finding a way into the nation's heart through its stomach. several u.s. restaurants are shutting shop in protest of donald trump's immigration policies. it has proved popular in some quarters, but migrant communities and their supporters say america needs them. >> this country without immigrants would not run. sometimes people don't realize it until it is gone. reporter: the day without immigrants started off as a grassroots movement on social media and gained traction with some high profile endorsements. pleaded he ischef closing several of h

laura: kate moody joins us in this duty. -- in the studio.e deal is back on the table, it would seem. -- for about says $350 million less than offered last year. under the new terms of the deal, they will split the cost of some of the losses deriving from the data breaches. world'sas one of the top internet companies worth $125 billion before falling behind rivals like google. a series of costly security lapses, but the deal goes ahead. in july 2016, u.s. telecom giant verizon made a deal with yahoo! to buy the companies struggling internet business. that september, yahoo! announced it had suffered a major data breach back in 2014. 500 million user counts were believed compromised with usernames, passwords, birth dates, and telephone numbers offered for sale on the dark web. in december, a new revelation, personal data from over a billion accounts had been stolen back in 2013, the largest known hack of user data in internet history. for verizon, it was time to renegotiate. agreed upon,price over 4.8 billion dollars. a new deal puts the price

some business news, kate moody is with us. we start in the united states. kate: we had a quote from donald trump a few minutes ago saying, how do you know i'm doing in a good? job? you've never seen so much paper on her presidents desk and four. he said is symbolic of all the deals he has been negotiating for the u.s. economy. there are indeed quite a few papers in front of him. this is that he was meeting with the chief executive of intel, a $7 billion investment to revitalize a factory in arizona. it will create 3000 jobs and produce advanced semiconductor chips for computers and smart cards. last year intel cut 12,000 jobs as it shifted from personal computers to chips. the timing of the announcement is interesting because intel was one of 127 tech companies that signed a position against the travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim countries. he indicated he was in favor of the new administration's economic policies. take a listen. investment in intel but also the u.s.'s future and innovation and leadership in the semiconductor industry. it's really

kate moody is here. we're going to start industry. >> the group is pushing ahead with talks of buying general motors last european operations despite growing concerns about potential job losses. the deal is being valued at $2 billion. making it the second-biggest carmaker in europe. both german and british governments said they will to all they can to protect local jobs. >> the potential psa has created uncertainty for thousands of workers. half of locals are based in germany. government has a coordination process underway, and we will do everything we can politically to secure jobs in germany. >> german plant worker seem upbeat about the deal. motors european arm has not posted a profit since 1999. losing billions of euros. >> there are many uncertainties. as the old saying goes, when one door closes, another one opens. >> we are stronger, our figures are rising. the good opportunity. europebiggest market in is the u.k.. and the head of the union says the government must fight to protect 4500 jobs. we a

kate moody is here. starting with the british economy.optimisticome forecast about what might happen post-brexit. waiting for still details. the bank of england has raised its productions for growth, the third time says the referendum. officials are warning that the process of leaving the european union could cause medium to long-term damage, but the forecast for 2017 is looking rosy. to do away with the bank ofjitters, england raised its growth outlook for 2017 for the second time in three months. the bank had doubled his august forecast to 1.4% in november and expects the economy to grow by 2% this year. markets initially braced for the worst after the june referendum, but the u.k. has been doing better than expected. in economy expanded by 0.6% the last quarter of 2016, one of the strongest growth rates in the world. yet the bank of england warns its revised forecast does not brexit end o ff the effect. >> it does not mean the referendum is without consequence. uncertainty is weighing on business investment which has been flat since th