thousands of other journalists for access to the big stories, we head to barcelona for the mobile world congressh their big new phones and the small companies show off clever new innovations that may one day change the world. only this year, as you may know, mwc is off. cancelled because of concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. it's proved a nightmare for the telecoms industry but our chris fox, who was due to cover, thinks he's going to get a week off, however, not everyone has cancelled. some companies have gone to barcelona anyway. so i've got a bit of news for chris. the cancellation of mwc has been nothing short of a nightmare, especially for me, i couldn't cancel my flights at such short notice and i'd been left stranded here in barcelona with no work to do. it turns out huawei hasn't cancelled its flights either and are still doing a press conference — right now. with the venue already booked and huawei executive richard yu already in town, the company decided to do its launch event anyway. only this time it was pre—recorded a day early and played out on the big screen. the big rev

and if you are wondering why a toothbrush company is at mobile world congress, well, the toothbrusheshem... obviously! the new 0ral—b i0 has a magnetic drive the company says is whisper—quiet. although to test that, i'll have to go somewhere silent, and i knowjust the place! usually at this time of year, this place is full of the world's mobile phone industry but i can't think of a quieter place, this time, to test this toothbrush. so, here we go. i'll hold it the same distance from my mic, so this is the regular 0ral—b. whirring. very noisy. and here is the new one. higher pitched whirring. also fairly noisy. they said in their presentation that this is the toothbrush that whispers. i am not convinced that is a whisper. the ultimate test is, of course, whether you can hear it through the bathroom door and whether it will disturb your partner, so we tested that in the hotel and the resounding result of our very scientific test is, yes, you can still hear it through the bathroom door. recently, it has been impossible to avoid 5g at mwc. well, this year, you can, because there is no sho

postponed or even canceled including st petersburg economic forum on the world's biggest mobile phone show mobile world congress in barcelona the 2020 summer olympics in tokyo japan could be next i'm watchful. of an engineer so i'm a little more conservative minded probably but i'm watching things you know. you. wouldn't i wouldn't travel just for personal reasons that were like i have a daughter in san diego and i was going to go visit her in. but now if you go probably shouldn't go. in their ninety's and i'm sort of have to keep an eye on so i'll probably do that trip and i was going to go visit him but he's lives in seattle and i don't think i want to go to ground 0 for. museums like the louvre in paris and tokyo disneyland are temporarily shut down while many cruises are not accepting cancellations many airlines are offering one way tickets as low as $20.00 but many are saying that simply is not enough reporting for boom bust their mom test r t. the turbulent week on wall street continues as a 50 bed cut earlier did nothing to restore confidence to the market about 9 trillion dollars has been wiped off of g

the geneva motor show and mobile world congress among others even hollywood has felt the release of the upcoming james bond movie ironically titled no time to die with cinemas across the world closing their doors especially in china the film industry is at risk of losing over $5000000000.00 businesses are desperately trying to find ways to stay open italian theaters asked audiences to sit 3 seats apart as a precaution before the italian government calls all cinemas nationwide anyway the mayor of boston even tried to guilt trip so many from pulling out of the pax east event as a large international company you have a mill but you need to decide a good example though we didn't technology you can show that you are motivated by the it is a leader in gaming and culture you can show that you believe in connection isolation there are even talks that the 2021 picks in tokyo might be held without spectators as the markets keep hemorrhaging money with global stocks plummeting by roughly 9 trillion dollars some have proposed radical solutions to the crisis maybe we'd be just better off if we gave

when we see things like the mobile world congress canceled or soccer matches being held in the stadiums stadiums, does not want you -- does not that make you want to revise targets down? results are very solid and make us in the position to cope with this challenging environment. it is too early to measure the 2020t on our business in our business is very solid. our business is very resilient, because what people are not moneynow to invest their they will do later. so our business can be delayed, but it will not be reduced. by the way, the portfolio is still there and still producing strong earnings and strong results. concernedery much about our target. reason as of today to change our targets. going to look carefully at the impact of the crisis and update our strategy, if needed. but looking at our strategic and it is still very valid i'd consider it that we will be able to reach our targets in 2020. obviously, we need to support our people and our sales distribution. as i said regarding the new there is a delay on the business and may jeopardize our ability to achieve our target. mat

and there's the mobile world congress. usually attracts 100,000 in barcelo barcelona.because of the coronavirus. a lot of people were traveling because of the ongoing spread of this disease. facebook had to cancel their developers conference. they attract about 5,000 each year. the big game conference, 29,000 makes it to this event. they postpone it. haven't given a new date. >> bill: in l.a. or las vegas? >> near san jose. >> bill: so you have the olympics in july. >> right. >> bill: it's in japan. is there a chance they hold the games and just allow the athletes to compete and everybody else -- >> there's talk about that right now. it would be disappointing if it was cancelled. there's been pressure from the athletes side and also the japanese government have been rethinking whether or not to hold this for everyone's sake. right now in terms of travel, a lot of companies are not allowing anybody to do nonessential travel. >> bill: what makes sense, we'll see more of that. >> i think so. especially when you have amazon saying you don't have to travel in the u.s. you h

thousands of other journalists for access to the big stories, we head to barcelona for the mobile world congresstelecoms industry but our chris fox, who was due to cover it, thinks he's going to get a week off. however, not everyone has cancelled — some companies have gone to barcelona anyway — so i've got a bit of news for chris. the cancellation of mwc has been nothing short of a nightmare, especially for me — i couldn't cancel my flights at such short notice and i'd been left stranded here in barcelona with no work to do. it turns out huawei hasn't cancelled its flights, either, and are still doing a press conference — right now. with the venue already booked and huawei executive richard yu already in town, the company decided to do its launch event anyway. only this time, it was pre—recorded a day early and played out on the big screen. the big reveal was the follow—up to its first folding phone. and here it is — the folding huawei mate xs. if i open instagram here, there's some pictures of dogs, and if i open the phone out, the pictures expand to fill the view. one thing i can't show you is

around the time when mobile world congress was getting it. >> we had europe and south korea looking aerning than they were back then and it gives you a little bit of an insight into how quickly this is moving just a couple of nights ago i was on thephone and i would argue that you'd think video conferences is easy. they're tech workers it's a lot of times being in the same place together working on a single thing. >> you can't do that as efficiently if you're on video conferences. >> we had him on just talking about the retailers and how consumer behavior changed over the last week. and for a lot of them once they try it for the first time you see how it works they reich it. it could change consumer behavior this going to eliminate the need for business travel. it made it more important to decide when do we get people physically together but the quality of the connection when you'retrying to close a deal. >> face to face over a meal. that matters the quality of the interaction and as high definition as high definition is its not high definition enough. >> yes it is >> speak for yourse

mobile world congress, canceled. even facebook's f-8 canceled. the impact is huge. that's just the business travel side there. stuart: i don't want you to speculate but i am going to question the survival of the olympics, due to start in japan in july. what do you think? >> there are already people questioning whether or not they should go to that. people just have no sense yet of how long this is going to stretch out and the images they are seeing are creating, as everybody has talked about this morning, more and more fear. there's pictures of professional baseball teams in japan playing in empty stadiums and they see that holland america ship that didn't even have any cases that was denied getting into five different ports. people are very worried about it. i do think the olympics could potentially be impacted. stuart: you see, you can't just open up travel again, say here you go, you can travel wherever you like and freely. you can't do that. in fact, it's likely more travel restrictions will be imposed, right? >> definitely in the short term. even if you did quo

using location data from mobile phones for public health surveillance of the virus so congress members of urged u.s. president to ensure data protection. as countries around the world race to contain the spread of corona virus many are also concerned about how these mass digital surveillance tools may be used once this global crisis is. so high it's al-jazeera or let's move on to other news now and authorizes in mozambique say an armed group has taken full control of a town in the country's north it's in the province of couple delgado where there's already been at least 30 attacks this year security forces are trying to recapture the talent where the group has hoisted its flag hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced from that region since the fighting began in 2017 let's take this on we can speak to david also from london the counterterrorism expert at global risk international david as i say these attacks go back to 2017 what do we know about them and what's behind them. nick for the past 3 years the provincial cricket we don't go especially if it was somebody probably has been taken over by a local jihadist of an a-z. shoot commonly referred to as old t