and auditor pricewaterhouse coopers says there are more of them than ever before more than two thousand fact together they are worth up to eight point nine trillion dollars the u.s. still has the greatest concentration of wealth held by billionaires but china is missing them faster with two new billionaires every week according to the report. a booming startup scene is facing off with anger over rising rents in berlin just look at google the u.s. tech firm had planned a multi-million dollar campus for startups in the city before protesters forced it into a rethink. this construction site was scheduled to be open for berlin fast growing startups on may twenty ninth teen the tech giant had wanted to give the scene a man. of boost with google campus three thousand square metres at a cost of fourteen million euros the company's change of plans came as a huge surprise if you. feel we certainly learned something from the many conversations we had this is actually the wrong place for pure startup campus and what we are aware for protest but we don't allow them to dictate our actions from and w

and pricewaterhouse coopers there are more of them than ever before more than two thousand people around the globe have accumulated one billion dollars of wealth or more together they're worth eight point nine trillion dollars north america remains home to the largest number of billionaires but second place goes to asia. china now has more than three hundred billionaires most of them are intrapreneur just like jack ma he founded online retailer alibaba two decades ago now the company has yearly revenues of more than thirty billion dollars. the e.u. is moving to counter the growing mountain of plastic waste on land and waterways europe currently recycles only a quarter of the twenty five million tons of plastic waste it produces annually now e.u. lawmakers say urgent action is needed if you need the. eight billion tons of plastic produced in less than sixty five years six billion tons of waste a figure speak for themselves more than four billion tons for europe alone oceans have become garbage dumps and they're dying on the. fence every minute the equivalent of a truckload of plastic wast

and turning to south asia a new report from the accounting firm price waters of pricewaterhouse coopers now branded as p w c finds that india is having a largely unheralded boom in burgers and acquisitions the report a joint project of see and the confederation of indian industry cites official figures and reputed private marsan as smart contract but right now because of the fact it's too slow it takes about twenty minutes thirty minutes sometimes for their contract to actually start all right now the practicality of its mass is actually kind of low so that's why in everyday usage repl is kind of better. and fine. christine what are you looking forward to coming up here in the last day or so the forbes under thirty summit in boston today is a day of excursions we have a lot of field trips outside of with a lot of the leaders here in boston so we have a trip to the t.d. garden to see how they're managing sports team and the latest technology for like training and sports team and management and how technology plays into the recovery time athletes and then we have another field trip into f

and turning to south asia a new report from the accounting firm price waters of pricewaterhouse coopers now branded as p w c finds that india is having a largely unheralded boom in mergers and acquisitions the report a joint project of p w c and the confederation of indian industry cites official figures and reputed private analysts to conclude that the value of indian m. and a activity grew in the first quarter of fiscal year twenty nine nineteen at a rate ten times that of the same quarter in f y twenty zero twenty eighteen the authors also find any activity has accounted for a full twenty nine percent of foreign direct investment in india over the past ten years two of the biggest notable indian mergers will be familiar to boom bust viewers last month warren buffett invested estimated five hundred three hundred fifty million dollars to take a reported three to four percent stake in india's online payment platform paty m. and in may u.s. retail giant wal-mart spent sixteen billion dollars to take a seventy seven percent stake in indian online retailer flipkart. and we're back in bosto

and auditor pricewaterhouse coopers says there are more of them than ever before that is more than two thousand billionaires around the globe together they're worth they're worth up to eight point nine trillion dollars now the u.s. has the greatest concentration of wealth held by billionaires but china is missing them faster with two new billionaires every week according to the report. now the u.s. growth the u.s. economy growing more than expected in the third quarter that's thanks to the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years the commerce department said gross domestic product or the total values of good goods and services produced increased by three and a half percent compared to a year earlier the sharp rise of consumer spending helps offset a big drop in trade companies spend more to increase their inventories which also helped to bolster growth analysts are expecting the economy to expand by around three percent this year. and we're joined now by our financial correspondent in new york yes quarter another quarter of solid growth in the us donald trump is looking like th