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many people here hope to benefit from the new silk road. the oasis city of don't honk is already reaping the rewards part of the desert is a national park and camels now transport tourists instead of goods. only he doesn't pay much attention to the beauty of the landscape he often thinks about his ten year old son. after he frequently calls him since the two seldom see each other. on organization and become a truck driver it's too dangerous the army could be good for him because you can develop a strong character there. the last province on the route is shin jungle where the muslim turkic speaking wiggers complain of discrimination china is often accused of suppressing the ethnic group in its efforts to fight terrorism investment along the new silk road may help ease the situation and defuse the conflict. the three drivers are close to their destination spending the last night at a highway rest area it costs two dollars cheap enough for their limited budget they can finally get some rest and have a smoke see what he's like should they get u

was the starting point of the renowned silk road. camel caravans transported silk and other goods to europe until the middle ages. gold and jewelry were brought to china. if everything runs smoothly the men will reach whore gas in six or seven days it's a border city in northwestern china that's where the kyrgyz is a client will pick up the trucks. there of course it's a long trip but i like traveling this route i've been doing it for the past four or five years i really like it. the truckers have a three and a half thousand kilometer journey ahead of them. china has expanded the route substantially in recent years beijing has earmarked some nine hundred billion dollars for its new silk road including roads railways lines pipelines ports and airports. the route goes through breathtaking landscapes the colorful mountains were barely known until a few years ago now they're a tourist attraction many people here hope to benefit from the new silk road. the oasis city of don juan is already reaping the rewards part of the desert is a natio

tech has been top of many christmas lists we'll check in with the trends also coming up china's new silk road can one hundred billion dollars revive the oldest trade route in the world and. sells how the self-styled home of father christmas finland is drawing tourists from all over asia. and on the winter and this is your christmas business update he made a list he checked it twice and now father christmas can put his feet up meanwhile retailers will be taking stock of the run up to the seasonal festivities retail chains and department stores sold a lot of books toys and gadgets more people than ever also went online to buy items for their family and friends the german retail association says online sales increased here by ten percent this holiday season to twelve billion euros. and many of the big money spending products are from the world of tech from both the serious and the city. look at the little drummer boy playing without a drum set he's playing on free drum using sensors to track a drum his movements high tech is fun throwing a roller coaster at copenhagen's to fully you can rid

instead of silk and spices typical cargoes today include household electronics and textiles. with the belongs to mostly because we're part of the largest conurbation in central europe. the chinese want to sell masses of consumer goods. and the best place to sell them is where you have a lot of consumers. combine that with a dense network of roads and rail links at this end plus the rhine river connecting with rotterdam and also the bridge on europe's west coast it's ideal. coming this will. turn out twenty five trains a week to do is book from china carrying both goods and hope for the future. located in germany's industrial heartland duesberg used to be a wealthy city but it's been in economic decline for decades. the city's representative for chinese affairs still remembers the steel plants lighting up the nighttime sky when he was a boy today like the coal mines across the river valley to most have been closed down. in the last twenty years we've lost around thirty or thirty five thousand jobs in the steel industry. which is why he welcomes trade from china. and the new si

and dream final stop on the new silk road can an eleven thousand kilometer rail link to china revive the economy of a faded german industrial town. welcome to your end of year business update. in a muted final trading session on twenty seventeen on the frankfurt stock exchange went out with more of a whimper than a bang the main index was noticeably down from its record high this year and going at twelve thousand nine hundred seventeen points but investors still have plenty of reasons to be cheerful it seems they ignored the potential political risks here in germany which still hasn't pulled the new government to three months after an election germany's benchmark closed this friday some thirteen percent up on the year's opening markets monthly bonds has this is testament of the year that was twenty one seventeen. what a surprise twenty seventeen practically no one had high hopes for the market but instead there was one record after another in new york with the dow in frankfurt with the dax the dax for the first time over thirteen thousand five hundred points during the course of the

a whopping twenty five percent ron it's also coming up duisburg strains our final stop on the new silk road can an eleven thousand kilometer rail link to china revive the economy of a faded german industrial town and how a husband and wife team from humbug taking on a spice industry giant and when. i'm done your winter welcome to your end of year business update and a muted final trading session of twenty seventeen on the frankfurt stock exchange went out with more of a whimper than a bang germany's benchmark index the dax was sharply down from its record high this year ending at twelve thousand nine hundred and seventeen points however it was still thirteen percent up on the year investors ignoring the potential political risks here in germany where there's still no government after three months since the election in new york stocks soared from record to record and twenty seventeen but the dow ended the last session of the year over one hundred points down on the day. and our markets mandaeans quarter is on wall street so yes it's good to see you investors taking stock of twenty seven

also deuce books dreams all final stop on the new silk road the full steelmaking. in germany's industrial heartland hopes a new eleven thousand kilometer rail link to china will revive the local economy. this is the business. facing a barrage of criticism for the liberal is slowing down old models apple now says it will reduce the price of battery replacements to regain customers trust. some users had long suspected the company was using their regular software updates to slow down all right phones encouraging consumers to buy newer models apple admitted the procedure but says it was done to prolong the life of aging batteries the company has had eight separate lawsuits in the u.s. filed against it over the matter and has additional legal trouble in israel and france. now today marks the last trading day of the year and what a year it was donald trump took office to move markets with his isolationist agenda tax plans b. w.'s diesel gate scandal continued to make headlines for the third year running big cones roller coaster ride mesmerized investors all the while glo

china to europe and the silk is what gave that old trade route its name the silk road today the chinese government is investing hundreds of billions of u.s. dollars to revive this route by building ports and bridges and roads both in china and abroad this week we want to take you on a journey along with new silk road and take a closer look at the most important stations and today we stop in to place in the capital of georgia it is the only country in the southern caucasus with access to the black sea cutting shipping time to europe significantly and this is why the port city of a not clear gets a brand new deep sea harbor and the next ten years the chinese government will sink two point five billion dollars into that project and georgia does not only want to be a transit country with so much trade going past its doorstep georgia wants a slice of that pie and many small companies are ready for business from the new silk road. for the guards is a family get together like this doesn't happen so often anymore they're all looking after their businesses and son jordi now works in china as a m

camel caravans transported silk and other goods to europe until the middle ages. gold and jewelry were brought to china. if everything runs smoothly the men will reach whole gas in six or seven days it's a border city in northwestern china that's where the kyrgyz is client will pick up the trucks. because it's a long trip but i like traveling this route i've been doing it for the past four or five years i really like it. that. the truckers have a three and a half thousand kilometer journey ahead of them. china has expanded the route substantially in recent years beijing has earmarked some nine hundred billion dollars for its new silk road including roads railways lines pipelines ports and airports. the route goes through breathtaking landscapes the colorful mountains were barely known until a few years ago now there are tourist attraction many people here hope to benefit from the new silk road. the oasis city of don't honk is already reaping the rewards part of the desert is a national park and camels now transport tourists instead of goods. only doesn't pay much

news still to come on our program in the business series on china's new silk road also take you all the way to georgia where local businesses are lining up for the flood of new trade heading their way from the east. at stories coming up with daniel at the business desk in just a few minutes to stay with us if you can the for. make your smart t.v. even smarter with the w. for smart. what you want when you want it. up to date. extraordinary. you decide what's on. sunday more d w smart. images from an isolated country images from the north korea. any tell you photographer captured fascinating shots of everyday life in a regimented society. a north korean diary starting december twenty to you w. at the. following the new silk road today we take a look at why china is sinking two and a half billion dollars into a pole in the georgia and how local companies there are a cashing in on the new trade route on that doorstep also coming up as the festive feasting gorgias on we visit a family owned smoked salmon produce in east london and find out what it's. owners think about the e.u. and breaks it

trade route one thousand years ago long caravans of camels brought porcelain spices and precious silk all the way from china to europe today the chinese government is investing hundreds of billions of u.s. dollars to revive this road by building ports and bridges and roads both in china and abroad this week we want to take you on a journey along the new silk road and take a closer look at the most important stations and today we stop in tbilisi the capital of georgia is the only country in the southern caucuses with access to the black sea cutting shipping time to europe significantly and this is why the next ten years the chinese government will sink two point five billion dollars into the georgian black sea port of larnaca building a brand new deep sea hub but georgia does not only want to be a transit country with so much trade going past their doorstep georgian businesses small and large one a slice of the action on the new silk road. for the guards is a family get together like this doesn't happen so often anymore they're all looking after their businesses and son jordi now works

and following the new silk road why china is sinking two point five billion dollars into the polls in georgia and how local companies there are trying to cash in on the new trade route on their doorstep. this is e w business i'm sure how the office in berlin welcome china and pakistan will look at extending their fifty seven billion dollars china pakistan economic corridor to afghanistan as a part of china's ambitious bells and road plan linking china with asia europe and beyond china is trying to position itself as a helpful party to promote talks between pakistan and afghanistan both uneasy neighbors ever since pakistan's independence in one thousand forty seven that's what chinese foreign minister one year had to say on tuesday. china and pakistan are willing to look at including afghanistan other bases of of when when neutrally beneficial principles discussing appropriate means to extend china pakistan economic corridor sure afghanistan shall have a hiding. and this corridor will become part of what is known as the new silk road it takes its name from an ancient trade route one th

among their cargo, precious silk, which gave the routes its name, the silk road.he chinese government wants to revive it, invest in hundreds of billions of dollars in ports, roads, airways between china and the western trading partners. this week, we're looking at some of the stops along the route. it is home to the largest inland port in europe, handling 3.7 million shipping containers a year. that makes it an ideal hub for china's new silk road project. the link, bringing freight here from china, is already up and running. it transfers two dozen trains oblique. it has aas a transfer time for times shorter than the original sea route. in trade, time really is money. >> at europe's largest inland ports, most containers arrive by ship.but not all . it might look unspectacular, but this is one end of the new silk road. a freight rail route stretching 11,000 kilometers. instead of silk and spices, typical cargoes today have electronics and textiles. >> we're part of the largest innovation in central europe. the chinese want to sell masses of consumer goods, and the b

instead of silk and spices typical cognos today include household electronics and textiles. with the belongs to the mostly because we're part of the largest conurbation in central europe. the chinese want to sell masses of consumer goods. and the best place to sell them is where you have a lot of consumers. combine that with a dense network of roads and rail links at this end plus the rhine river connecting with rotterdam and also the bridge on europe's west coast it's ideal. come to think. there are now twenty five trains a week to do is book from china carrying both goods and hope for the future. located in germany's industrial heartland duesberg used to be a wealthy city but it's been in economic decline for decades. the city's representative for chinese affairs still remembers the steel plants lighting up the nighttime sky when he was a boy today like the coal mines across the river valley to most have been closed down the lid since once again in the last twenty years we've lost around thirty or thirty five thousand jobs in the steel industry. which is why he welcomes tr

also coming up following the new silk road today we take a look at why china is building a new seaport in georgia and how local companies there are cashing in on the budgeting trade route ran as a festive feasters gorge on revisit a family owned smoked salmon producer in east london and find out what its owners think about the e.u. . and daniel winter and this is your business update christmas may be done dusted but retailers are still keeping busy just a britain bargain hunters lined up in front of shops for the country's traditional boxing day sales this year the day was rather disappointing as thirty seven percent of shoppers chose to bargain on black friday instead according to a survey more than half of survey takers also thought boxing day sales have lost their luster due to the increase in online shopping. and to the u.s. now so he is on wall street for us so sophie it's being a happy holiday for online retailer amazon. yeah and the ateneo would step in come as a surprise to investors i mean think about where you probably have large mall store at least some of the open christmas

you can just make out the fringe with silk embellishments. recently i was talking to a colleague in england who has been working on the handle house bed. they needed to have this knotted wool fringe replicated and it took local volunteer women a knot enough not -- fringe. needless to say, hardly anyone does this anymore. [laughter] natalie: two of the best documented extant houses in america are near boston, the jeremiah lee mansion in marblehead and a house in portsmouth, new hampshire. they have very detailed references to their best bed chambers. the 1776 prorated inventory of the lee mansion lists from his chamber over the front parlor a full suite of yellow silk damask curtains with easy chair and window curtains. there is also a spectacular original wallpaper in several of the rooms in this house. the bedstead and curtains were re-created in the 1990's. at the house in new hampshire, the 1768 inventory lists yellow damask bed curtains, a fluted black walnut bedstead, one yellow damask covered easy chair, six yellow damask covered chairs

which gave the route its name the silk road the chinese government now wants to revive it investing hundreds of billions of dollars in ports and roads railways and airports between china and its western trading partners this week we're looking at some of the stops along the route and our series finishes in the german city of boost book it's home to the largest in one port in europe handling three point seven million shipping containers a year and that makes it an ideal hub for china's new silk road project the rail link bringing freight here from china is already up and running it's served by more than two dozen trains a week and the transit time of just under two weeks is four times shorter than the traditional sea route giving the rail link a competitive advantage because as we all know in trade time really is money. but europe's largest in one port most containers arrive by ship but not all. that might look and spectacular but this is one end of the new silk road a freight rail route stretching eleven thousand kilometers and connecting duis book with chongqing in central china. i

in royal circles, they were fine linen or silk, like these on the right. on top of the one or two hair mattresses were placed equally -fine mattresses of cotton flock or wool roving, also quilted to keep the fillings from shifting. the vast majority of people had just one straw bed or mattress that had to be refreshed from time to time and the straw redistributed. a feather bed was a true luxury item, sometimes costing more than the bedstead itself. the feathers had to be washed and dried to degrease them before they were used, because if you don't do that, they become rancid and they smell. washington purchased several feathers,unds of presumably to replace old feathers in feather beds. the protein in the feathers and hair mattresses attracted unwanted pests, making for a tough night's slumber. in america, other stuffings such as marsh grass, cat of nine tales, and cornhusks were used for filling. on the right, you see the square end of a bolster in maine with a check tape edging the ticking, and it is filled with cornhusks. so this is really quite hard t

in our series following the new silk road this week why china is sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into large infrastructure projects in africa. now the robots are coming that's the headline that we've heard a lot this year ultra high speed internet and systems learning fast with artificial intelligence have brought the dream of many people closer to reality that robots work for us some of us and even think for us this dream is also a nightmare for many workers who fear they could be replaced by a machine that is smarter and faster sooner than we all thought. these robot soccer players doing world for rookies but maybe they'll improve through learning. miro the robot dog can already do that he can learn the floor plan of an apartment and fetch help if necessary he also makes cute little noises and likes to have his back scratched but without the inconvenience of walkies and feeding times. twenty seventeen pepper got a lot of attention with his coffee service he serves a hot drink of choice without bothering the client with small talk. you won't get it and you get back to work it's

the new silk road and. of course. and that's it this really is the last one i'm give the money i'll say. and the health benefits i'll be so much out of the are. going to kick us habit it's a new year it's a fresh start i can do this becoming a nonsmoker and staying on here's how to do it. just good shape next on the double shift. why do the offense need this. plastic bottle turned into a paving stone why do you clean your. good idea can work in the morning and there are people developing smart solutions everywhere. let's inspire children to be environment magazine the go ahead to africa in sixty minutes on g.w. . my first boss i was a sewing machine. where i come from women are balanced by the social influence in something as simple as learning how to write them by side of it isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me me as the months but there's. finally they gave up invented by me and by psychos but returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for

and tomorrow will arrive at one of the end points of the new silk road in two spoke. concluding all series and that's it for me and the business team here and more news on the w. for you of course top of the hour before you go here is a real time check on global markets. to. meet young entrepreneurs eager to tackle global challenges in our series founders valley in this episode for india global climate change his current all too tangible not is looking for new concepts for sustainable business models it is an odd interest to grow differently and that's the remains of the world is the last part of our series founders dally next on t.w. . entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful fis rico green zone is in warsaw where the polish government is facing mounting criticism from the e.u. over its record on democracy and human rights my guest is the deputy prime minister . is his government ready to address the concerns voiced by brussels for continue rejecting them out of a final four in sixty minutes on d w. not over out and they will not succeed in dividing us out

and this corridor will eventually become part of what is known as the new silk road it takes its name from an action to trade route one thousand years ago long caravans of camels brought for sale and spices and precious silk all the way from china to europe and today the chinese government is investing hundreds of billions of u.s. dollars to revive this route by building ports and bridges and roads both in china and abroad this week we want to take you on a journey along with silk road and take a closer look at the most important stations and today we'll stop in tbilisi the capital of georgia is the only country in the southern caucasus with access to the black sea cutting shipping time to europe significantly and this is why the next in the next ten years the chinese government will sink two point five billion dollars alone into the georgian black sea port of larnaca building a brand new deep sea harbor there but georgia does not only want to be a transit country with so much trade going past their doorstep georgian businesses small and large want a slice of the action on the new sil

all this week we're taking a look at the new silk road china's attempt. one thousand year old trade route is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into transport infrastructure across asia africa and europe today were at the greek port a courageous china's state owned shipping and logistics from costco has taken a majority two hundred eighty million euro stake with another three hundred fifty million to come in the next decade and as international companies line up to use it as a european gateway port traffic volumes are up twenty percent year on year this is the port of parade so in chinese shipping giant costco took over the port has been in operation twenty four hours a day freight volumes are four times what they used to be and one of the two container piers is being extended costco's plan to turn parathas into a gateway to europe is well underway its local executives are upbeat so far paramus is the only large private sector project making headway in greece but it is will be the first that there are now. very big disabuse us and they make that out

that annual get together in a very clandestine setting also coming up in our series following the new silk road this week why china is so interested in building billion dollar trade links with africa and christmas consumption binges over again but many are returning items they weren't happy with as retailers stopped taking stock of their earnings. and daniel winter and this is your business update the chaos computer club has been keeping tabs on surveillance privacy and data security issues for over thirty years its annual meet ups of grown a lot and the leipzig event is no different the latest cyber threats and data privacy issues top the agenda and that will snowden is this year's keynote speaker you might notice the lighting is a bit dim here because unusually for events like this no one wants to be in the limelight. events that like to trade fair grounds don't usually have such a clunker stein and secretive feel some areas are right off limits to t.v. cameras it's the first time the venue is hosting a convention by europe's biggest group the computer club with visitors from across the

also on the show traveling along the new silk road how the greek port of pier ayers is drawing a billion dollar investment from china. business but first the bankruptcy of lynn left as the last line standing in germany prompting fears of rising ticket prices rightly so says the german competition authority the cartel watchdog has analyzed prices for all of us booking classes and concluded they were unduly raised by up to thirty percent of council says it was merely the algorithm that came up with these prices the competition authority said it does not buy that excuse possibly opening the door for punitive finds it even cost them a lawsuit against loved ones. is using its newly obtained position bring in only by financial correspondent who's standing by in frankfurt really is it abusing a monopoly already. well yes or no if you look at the argument of cost for the c.e.o. that it's the algorithms that sounds like a real he childish argument i'm amazed to hear that from a man like that of course you can program your software so that it complies with the law and with regulation and love time