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w. business in berlin. the bankruptcy a bankruptcy rather of lin left as the last standing here in germany prompting fears of rising ticket prices rightly so says the german competition authority the cartel watchdog prices for all of those tonnes us booking glasses and concluded they were only raised up to thirty percent chance of says it was merely the algorithm that came up with these prices. authorities said it does not buy that excuse possibly opening the door to punitive fines and even customer lawsuits against lufthansa. well let's bring in ali financial correspondent in frankfurt only times are really abusing its monopoly already. well the the argument with the algorithm is really absurd if you take that to the full extent than lost tons could for example ground to half its planes and the algorithm would see that oh there's less supply let's double the fair prices that the passengers have to pay it was the algorithms that figured that out but even if you wouldn't calculate something like that in some

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a welcome to the w business i'm going out office big call and because wild swings continue over the holiday season prices have ranged between eleven thousand seven hundred. and fourteen thousand seven hundred u.s. dollars just within the last twenty four hours because officially entered a bear market on thursday technically a bear market is defined as a twenty percent plunge some observers suggest that many investors were cashing in on massive gains across the board as they closed their books ahead of the holidays despite the recent sell off overall bitcoin is still rallied since the beginning of this year by around eleven hundred percent. we're going to have a closer look at bitcoin for that i'm joined by laws house of from a business that is last full disclosure you recently bought bitcoin yourself when did you get in and how did it go or get out i was unfortunately a little late to the game i'm still up a ball at fifty percent so i'm pretty happy with the way it is going yes but i was of course up a lot more about last week because we have to just seen that correction over christmas so t

this is e w business i'm going to the office in berlin welcome china and pakistan will look at extending the 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 in a 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 the void when neutrally beneficial principles discussing appropriate means to extend china pakistan economic corridor sure afghanistan. is shit. 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 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 build

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w. business i'm gary offers welcome to the big con roller coaster seems unstoppable the cryptocurrency broke through twelve thousand dollars this morning and has now hit twelve thousand five hundred soaring from less than one thousand dollars at the start of the year but analysts warn the price surge is based on nothing but a speculative frenzy and the bubble is poised to burst that's not stopping some stock exchanges and futures markets from joining the party. bitcoins may be a mystery for most people but many are intrigued by the crypto currency bitcoins are mind in massive data centers such as here in china the currency only exists online there's no bank or financial institution behind it the cash flows are anonymous and there's little oversight and yet big coin is currently enjoying an unusual run. at the start of this year one bitcoin was worth one thousand dollars but for weeks there's been a lot of hype surrounding its more recent surge in value on wednesday its price reached a record high of over twelve thousand two hundred dollars that means bitcoin has jumped in value by over eleve

w. business and the office the energy sector is undergoing rapid change governments are switching to renewables like solar and wind power and they do it quickly they mean well they want to tackle climate change and save the world but what about saving jobs some economists criticize the big shift to green power sources as too quick it's hitting companies bottom lines and resulting in mosque layoffs around the globe general electric is the latest company said thursday it is axing twelve thousand jobs added it's global power business it's the struggling u.s. group's latest effort to shrink itself into a more focused company. g.e. decided on the cuts it says to save over a billion euros in twenty eighteen the company's stock has plunged forty four percent this year and the downturn is not only affected g.e. rival siemens is cutting about six thousand nine hundred jobs its power and gas division has also been hit by the rapid growth of renewables like wind and solar the worldwide trend is towards finding renewable energy solutions like this when park in china which generates clean energy and doesn't

w. business day dubliners live from valley not phil gal at top story this hour the u.s. state of alabama is voting in senate elections of the public and concerts of roy moore is up against democrat and doug jones in a race that's too close to call a democrat when it would reduce double chum's a slim majority in the senate. and in recent months the indian capital delhi has been rocked by reports of the deaths of more than ten sanitation workers while cleaning septic tanks and so is it a sign the spotlight is on manual scavenging the practice of cleaning human waste by marginalized communities it's bad by little and yet but still takes place extensively corresponded some new found the cost and just this report. every morning sony shows up for a trial that few anywhere would want to do. as a manual scavenger he cleans block drains and gotten in dentist suniel has been doing this the sexiest he owns anywhere between four hundred to eight hundred rupees a day that's about five to ten euros and we had the i almost threw up the first day here until then i've never cleaned the t

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w. business day doubly news live from butler and the downfall of a key player in yemen civil war who feel rebels turn a hold of president ali abdullah saleh killing him in a rocket and gun attack we'll hear from the capital sanaa about what this means for the country's worsening violence also on the program. britain's divorce from the european union is on ice despite prime minister theresa may be striking a deal with ireland about its border with the north will bring you the latest from brussels. place in multiple arrest of ten people in connection with the murder of journalist. she was reporting on corruption on the island when she was killed in a car bombing in october. first we'll bring you a special report about the fate of migrant children in turkey you'll hear the story of a celeb you know go one of an unknown number of syrian child refugees who have to work to help the family survive. i'm from ghana welcome to the program in yemen who you babbles have killed the countries that form the president on. abdullah saleh just south of the capital sana'a so says within the rebel groups a f

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w africa. very business it's christmas day and retailers up checking the stockings to see if they've been bad all good this season has been top of been the christmas lists we'll check in with the trends also coming up china's new silk. road can't nine hundred billion dollars revive the oldest trade route in the world and sand sells how the self-styled home of father christmas finland is drawing tourists from all over asia. i'm done the winter and this is your business update he made a list he checked it twice now father christmas can put his feet up meanwhile retailers will be taking stock of the run up to today's festivities here in germany small shop owners said sales were below expectations but major retail chains and department stores sold a lot of books toys clothes gadgets and cosmetics more people than ever before also went on line to buy items for their family and friends the german retail association says online sales increased by ten percent this holiday season to twelve billion euros. and many of the big money spinning products from the world of tech both the silly and the serious. loo

it's time for business on the w i'm here you know to get us welcome to the program when you hear the word restructuring in the world of business it can almost always be linked to job cuts general electric has confirmed its axing twelve thousand jobs at its global power business it's trying to become a more focused company and if this story sounds familiar look no further than here in germany g.e. decided on the currency it says to save over a billion euros in twenty eighteen the company's stock has plunged forty four percent this year and the downturn is not only affected g.e. rivals in china which generates clean energy and doesn't contribute to climate change and solar has become a more realistic alternative since the dawn of battery storage solutions to store daylight energy. the u.s. company says it expects dwindling demand for fossil fuel power plants to continue g.e. said the job cuts would primarily take place outside the united states but nearly a third of the company's swiss workforce is set to go and sixteen hundred employees in germany are also likely to lose their jobs. it

it's time for business on the w m how you got to get us welcome to the show venezuelan president nicolas maduro introduced the petro on sunday the country's very own crypto currency it's supposed to counter the disastrous performance of the real currency they believe out of which has plummeted by more than ninety five percent against the dollar on the black market over the past year but few believe this will make any difference ask corruption political turmoil add mismanaged finances are bringing venice well as economy to its knees. in the fight against his country's economic crisis president maduro is running out of options the state is on the verge of bankruptcy. unlike bitcoin the petro will be backed by a physical asset only oil venezuela's reserves are the largest in the world but the needs to squeeze more money out of them has led to the surprising idea. but says the cryptocurrency will help the nation. but i want to understand this monetary sovereignty to make financial transactions. to overcome the financial blocking. the so-called financial blockade is comprised of u.s. sanction

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it's time for business on the w m how you know yes welcome to the program and we start with one of the hot topics this week bitcoin keeps making headlines this time with a drop the cryptocurrency had searched by more than forty percent over the past couple days as officials prepare to launch the first bitcoin futures contracts this sunday but on friday it lost almost a fifth of its value. this sunday its kickoff for bitcoin future trades potentially propelling the cryptocurrency from the fringes to the forefront of finance traders are busy coming up with a game plans the futures market allows them to speculate on the cryptocurrency price at a later date something which may stabilize the cryptocurrency but also push the price down from the dizzying heights of where it has been i think we argue a correction and i suspect the correction will happen when the futures markets come online and so my suggestion is to kind of wait and see what happens i think that if you're investing though for the next two years or three years then if the difference between the price now and the price in a week

it's time for business on the w. i'm here you know to get us welcome to the program when you hear the word restructuring in the world of business it can almost always be linked to job cuts general electric has confirmed its axing twelve thousand jobs at its global power business it's trying to become a more focused company and if this story sounds familiar look no further than here in germany g.e. decided on the cuts it says to save over a billion euros in twenty eighteen the company's stock has plunged forty four percent this year and the downturn is not only affected g.e. rival siemens is cutting about six thousand nine hundred jobs its power and gas division has also been hit by the rapid growth of renewables like wind and solar the worldwide trend is towards finding renewable energy solutions like this wind park in china which generates clean energy and doesn't contribute to climate change . and solar has become a more realistic alternative since the dawn of battery storage solutions to store daylight energy. the

sign for business on the w m why you gotta get us welcome to the program diesel gate has cost five millions in fines and recalls but so far the executives of the company have not been punished now in the u.s. where the scandal was first uncovered v.w. manager all of a schmitt has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine a four hundred thousand dollars most feed all the executives spaced and germany haven't even lost their jobs oliver schmidt will be the first german v.w. manager to be imprisoned for his role in the emissions scandal he admitted that he knew about the software manipulation and lied about it to u.s. authorities he characterized himself as a scapegoat acting on behalf of management that didn't help him much in court but as part of his guilty plea prosecutors agreed to drop most of the counts for the time being one of the schmidt will be the final u.s. conviction in the v.w. emissions scandal the company manipulated the emissions values on their diesel vehicles for years the german car maker has already paid out over twenty five billion euros in compensation and fines

so i'm for business on the w m how you know i guess thank you for joining us germany's biggest bank deutsche bank is being investigated over russian meddling in the us presidential election last year a number of media outlets are reporting that special counsel robert mueller who's leading the inquiry has asked deutscher to release data on accounts held by president trump and his family the information was demanded by subpoena after deutscher rejected requests from the us house democrats to share the data in june the bank lent the trump organization millions of dollars for real estate ventures in the past. it's a developing story and we want to add allies it with our financial correspondent on wall street called the high end good to see you now it's tell us the scope of this possible case could we also see other banks involved in a civil matter. this case is not so much about if your bank did anything wrong but rather about possible ties between donald and rusher and if you look you have the father u.s. banks for example could be involved similarly it's rather unlikely if you look at the past

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so i'm for business on the w m how you know i guess thank you for joining us germany's biggest bank deutsche bank is being investigated over russian meddling in the us presidential election last year a number of media outlets are reporting that special counsel robert mueller who's leading the inquiry has asked to release data on accounts held by president trump and his family the information was demanded by subpoena after deutscher rejected requests from the us house democrats to share the data in june the bank lent the trump organization millions of dollars for real estate ventures in the past. it's a developing story and we want to analyze it with our financial correspondent on wall street called the high end good to see you now it's tell us the scope of this possible case could we also see other banks involved in a civil matter. this case is not so much about if did anything wrong but rather about possible ties between donald trump and rusher and if you look at the father u.s. banks for example could be involved similarly it's rather unlikely if you look at the past couple of years a lot

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