Going up and germanys Largest Airline looked tonnes up in the summer the car increased ticket prices and its cargo unit is booming look tons out was able to boost revenue thanks in part to its increased market share following the acquisition of Brussels Airlines last year the carrier is also flying more people. In twenty sixteen look tons of flu some one hundred ten million passengers nearly two percent more than in two thousand and fifteen the growth didnt come from its flagship carrier but from its german subsidiary the Budget Airline euro wings still for the first time look tons of passenger numbers were overtaken by dublin based low cost carrier ryan air the German Airline now plans to retake the top position from ryan air in europe with its acquisition of a large chunk of rival air berlin and its not stopping their loved ones are also wants to apply a part of italys largest carrier of the tahlia but untie trust authorities could spoil the party they will be reviewing whether look tons of it is gaining a monopoly position on too many routes. Germanys largest land a dodge a bank has agreed to pay out a combined total of two hundred twenty eight Million Dollars to forty five states and the u. S. Over its and edge manipulation of interbank lending rates the states investigation revealed that Deutsche Bank along with all the big banks including bach knees and inflated the libel write that rate is used to work out how much banks should charge each other for boring money has already agreed to fines of two and a half billion dollars with federal authorities in the u. S. And overseas in the u. K. The bank says the payouts agreed to today close the case. Well time to check in with wall street now our financial correspondent jens quarter is standing by yes case closed seemingly deutscher and banks in the u. S. Have to be breathing a sigh of relief today off the senate kill that ruling to make it easier to see banks tell us more about that. There was a little help of Vice President of my. Senate voted against the proposal from former president barack obama that would have made it easier for consumers to file a class action suit against the finance a huge. Vote of senate all that is missing is the signature of the u. S. President donald. Pretty likely to happen any time soon it is seen as the biggest regulatory victory for the financial industry since the new administration talks over if you look at the financial stocks overall they have been on fire in the past couple of months and even if that is seen as good news at least for big Financial Institutions stock in that area it didnt move that much on wednesday but as i said so financial stocks saw an incredible increase in the past couple of months absolutely quite a coup for the banks now the markets definitely not as chirpy as they were yesterday seems that some of those Quarterly Earnings out to just not managing to convince. There well maybe its a little bit of buy on the rumor and sell on the facts because weve got a couple of Big Companies earnings boeing cocacola the chip Company Advanced micro devices that actually the numbers were pretty solid came in more or less in line but still we saw some heavy selling Advanced Micro Devices for example losing thirteen percent in value but that stock in comparison to last year has more than doubled also boeing on the rise and the stock was the biggest loser in the Dow Jones Industrial average so even if we got used to it what we cant have a new record every single day now the focus is on thursday when the first Big Tech Companies will be coming out where their earnings microsoft intel amazon just to name a few absolutely and whatever goes up has to come down as well so some stability is welcome yes quarter in new york thank you very much now for most of us a spain and that driverless car is still a way off in the future but a ride in a driverless bus well for that you just need to get yourself to a bus stop in a small town in the southern german region off the very the first driverless boss in germany has taken it to the streets there and its free. This tiny vehicle is Cutting Edge Technology at first glance that may be hard to believe but its the first traveling spouse operating on public roads in germany its been tested on the streets all but been bought a small bavarian town two hours from munich. Here in the countryside and where theres a lack of the potable transportation i really believe that we need to have a service thats a fish and sustainable and affordable like he was under at the same time environmentally friendly it was tied. On to an image on. The bus is free to the public and maybe with reason its slow moving and just fifteen Kilometers Per Hour but riders probably have time to spare the short truett connects the city center with. All right a vision or a mirage saudi arabia is planning to build a mega city in the desert now oil will not be pumping through the heart of this metropolis only alternative energies robo robots trains and Driverless Cars will dominate soon the price tag were talking about are all the cool off a trillion u. S. Dollars. If constructed as planned the saudi megacity neon will be the largest building site on earth covering more than twenty six thousand square kilometers thats an area of land half the size of switzerland itll go up on the coast of the red sea not far from the hundreds of ships that had for the suez canal every year ten percent of the worlds exports pass through the waterway saudi arabia wants to be a new Global Center for trade crossroads between asia africa and europe trade is just one of nine economic sectors planned for the city the saudis also want to draw companies from the fields of transport robotics biotech food science Internet Technology and energy with little for the difference between it and a city of today is going to be like the difference between these two phones. To be attractive for Foreign Investors and staff the countrys strict islamic based laws will not apply within the citys limits neon will have its own systems and regulations separate from the rest of saudi arabia men and women for example will be allowed to Work Together its an ambitious plan but throwing money at it is no guarantee of success there are still many vacancies and a similar giant project the King Abdullah economic city. And dubai is plans for a large Carbon Neutral urban center mazda said they are still reliant on conventional Energy Sources for many of its power needs the new mega city is also supposed to be powered solely by Renewable Energy saudi arabia says it plans to finish by twenty thirty five. Thats a date with the latest from the world of business for more find us on Facebook Follow us on twitter. By now. When im traveling to be comfortable. But i also want to stay up to date on the latest news events. And e. W. Make snap are the traveling easy because its available and thousands of Hotels Resorts and cruise ships are online. Or have you found a domain signing send us a picture that shows d. W. In your room you can win a great prize d. W. Dot com travel quiz. Progress but you know where they start to divide the country to new zealand where they start to divide the language. Blood will flow for. The soviet union is breaking apart. That night everyone knew the decision would seal everyones face and get us there and get my side. Of. The members of the Russian Federation would have to find their own way. Glee and economic love so it was an incredibly difficult task that did not misadventure in effect this democracy was a license for the elections where fraud etc privatization was robbery tourist instead of cultivating its culture its words and language it brought forth the reforms of nationalism. The soviet unions heritage where does russia stand today and moscows empire our series starting november fish on. Our trip rotate us from the deep south of the United States to the east coast. Majestic locomotives will power through diverse landscapes will meet local county has go from the sunni towns to the bustling metropolis. Well visit places of great importance in American History and discover a small events that shaped every day knife. The main character of our american adventure is the train that makes its debut journey from the gulf of mexico to the atlantic get ready to climb aboard the president. Thank you thank you. New orleans the birthplace of jazz its a vibrant city on the mississippi delta with something for ever. Bonnie. The president meets the past. With its population of around four hundred thousand new orleans is not a notch city by american standards but its vibrant and loud. Was a Freight Trains with a hundred or more cars along right along the riverbank they take several minutes to pass through. But the wait is worth it. Back to you know why do do you. Love you yet were just. Going. In now that its a new orleans welcome. Street cars have shaped the cityscape of new orleans for the past hundred and eighty years at first street cars were powered by horses and steam their next trick now the next club once covered three hundred kilometers today just thirty six kilometers remain there a tree. The st charles line is the oldest continuously operating line in the us the river front line runs along the edge of the French Quarter and the canal street line covers the main street of new orleans. On overcast days when a cool breeze blows new orleans shows its melancholy side tourists and locals on the streets and squares around st louis cathedral seem unaffected the and in the French Quarter the citys oldest neighborhood most of the single and multistory buildings are made of stone and feature youre trying balcony as the spanish and french influence is unmistakable. Thanks. To a new orleans jazz and blues are inseparable Louis Armstrong and fats domino are among the sons of the city to name but two of its greats. Days the mood may be moving axed but theres virtually no record that will silence the instruments here thanks. To the sun thank you and the for. Youyou. Its early in the morning on loyola havent you its not far from the main station the new Orleans Union Passenger Terminal it seems to be busy ahead most passengers now prefer to travel by bus there are just three passenger trains departing new orleans each day. The building dates back to nine hundred fifty four its more. Of the citys History Month depicts the early history of the railroad when steam trains competed with who says. The first train started running in america in the early eighteenth that is the baltimore and Ohio Railroad hosted a special race. In the very beginning Steam Technology was just coming to fruition in england but to be a no chose to haul its first passenger cars by horse later several engines were tested and a gentleman named peter cooper invented the First American built Steam Locomotive which was nicknamed tom thought because it was a very small little boxy engine in august of eight hundred thirty the story goes that there was a race between this mechanical engine and a horse drawn car and during the race one of the belts on the wind blower broke on peter coopers engine tom thumb and the horse ultimately ran the race but as we know Steam Technology and motive power would beat the force in the air. We still use the term whose power trains today have more than four thousand three hundred horsepower. Each carriage has one steward its very comfortable passengers can check in from six in the morning. And for boarding at half past the crescent consists of two engines and nine carriages. Thank. You thank the light is eerily beautiful as the train sets off at seven in the morning. Thank. You ed we passed slowly through new orleans and the Crescent City because of its location on a bend in the Mississippi River. The air. Passengers we face a thirty one all ride will cross twelve states and cover more than two thousand two hundred kilometers on our journey from the big easy to the big apple. The end new orleanss bordered by the Mississippi River to the south and by lake pontchartrain to the north a shallow body of water three times the size of Lake Constance three roads and one train line run across the lake on stilts the lake has a friendly face and the only night that wasnt the case in two thousand and five am. Since two thousand and six the new easy ana state museum has hosted an exhibition about the harken history of new orleans. With a special focus on Hurrican Katrina katrina changed the city. One of the great things about the story is that the human story behind each of the exhibitions that youll see in this particular exhibition really express how these people of the American South came together to rebuild a community. It wasnt just the hurrican that caused terrible destruction. Holding back naik pontchartrain crumbled. Into the city from the north unhindered katrina changed the lives of new orleans the people physically the way we live and the way we work. We are trying to build back the city right sitting and having Great Success there a chance to psychologically to think the people of new orleans are more virulent now and i think were more proud that we were before the storm because of what we survived. Poor doubt his emotions each day recording the horrific events on the wallpaper of his house. The wreck of the grand piano that belonged to musician fats domino hanging above the installation by michel goaded who grew up in new orleans it symbolizes his grief for the sixteen hundred victims. Hand symbolize the willingness of those who were not affected to help to lend a hand. My left with our thoughts we had north on our adventure beyond new orleans we find rural landscapes with bar ists fields and phones. Were approaching meridian a small town in the state of mississippi. One of the greatest Country Music singers in the United States was buried here in eighty ninety seven the jimmy Rogers Museum resembles an old train station rogers was the third and youngest son of a Railroad Family the museum is filled with many of his personal items. And opened the safe for the jimmy Rogers Museum and then the jimmy rogers guitar. That we keep in this life jimmy had many guitars this was his final guitar he ordered it shortly after he was discovered one of our guests when he was based in here hey pointed to this how and he said sing this how you say this house right here and he kept saying that about four or five times and then what thats what Country Music was oh right they are right they are and what do you like to. America and another guest said folk music and when i asked American Music because jimi had such a profound influence. As a young man jimi was just what the new orleans and Northeastern Railway it as a break man among other things. Soon he was beloved to leave the country many of his experiences during his time on the railroad found their way into his songs today this is known only to fans of Country Music. His music a from his work on the rare and from his former life and from living in rural mississippi and traveling around the trying as he travels from place to place. He loved the railroad he just didnt want to work on the railroad he wanted to sing about the railroad and hes left us many many wonderful songs and we appreciate the great of his music. Jimi watches and he lived to be thirty five he should korean last did just sixteen as the singing brakeman died on may the twenty six nineteen thirty three of tuberculosis it is. He picked up during his time on the railroad the. The the. We leave the roots of Country Music and behind. Not much has been served in the dining car. Were just waiting for desired. There are three times logs available for lunch we chose the middle one half past twelve. The ara train has left the state of mississippi and is traveling through alabama i am. In the early Nineteenth Century i know was mined in the area surrounding birmingham to bring its Industrial History to life for future generations the state of alabama set up an open and museum a few years ago the tan hill and lux historical state park not much remained at the historical buildings thats why much was rebuilt using the original plan. Was a boom town in the late hundreds after their free destruction period after the civil war thats when the pressure really started to get going in towns like birmingham and from places over here where theyre brown or fields to the places where adjacent to the red or fields that were located closer to the brink of city limits so their Production Center their twenty two tons of vinyl one mind here every day in the early eighteen six days by the end of the civil war parts of the complex were in. Ns but the boom of the island town of birmingham was unstoppable so it then about the time of the founding of the city in eight hundred seventy s. And it picked up through world war one and it kind of peaked in World War Two producing stuff for the war effort for World War Two and then after the one nine hundred sixty s. Things Like International competition and resource depletion tonnage of the other industries out i mean have still has a pretty big cast iron pipe industry but that anymore they are isnt made here anymore. The furnace is a no longer burning but they are impressive reminders of the time when birmingham was also known as the pittsburgh of the south pittsburgh was americas number one steel city at the time. Was the hour now but i am. The. With a population of two hundred Twelve Thousand birmingham is still alabamas biggest city even though its lost half of its population as a result of the economic decline of the past fifty years thats evidenced by the many decaying buildings many of them are being pulled down three quarters of all the inhabitants are africanamericans just half a century ago these people had to fight for their civil rights the events from back then a student at the forefront of them minds. But during that time birmingham was rigidly segregated the segregation ordinances specifically said that black people white people did not play checkers jess engage in any game its hard to imagine what that was like now so it was very oppressive. The separation of the races there was real. No justice in the legal system for africanamericans. Ham the city of racial segregation. In the sixtys africanamerican homes and businesses were bombed in the city at this hour break a bombing hand. Tool black girls died in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when a Baptist Church was bombed. Many of the attacks were committed by the racist hate group the ku klux klan. The conflicts finally came to a head and it took decades for the Civil Rights Movement to fool. So you had two hundred years of this so pression based on color based on race. And people had accepted that as a way of life and so to make that kind of dramatic shift after generations of racial oppression is very difficult the hope that this ugly chapter in history will finally close is expressed an opinion on the will of the Baptist Church in trades man man none to replace bitterness and violence we can offer and understanding the earth you work the early train heads further means were running striking behind changi Freight Trains have priority since Rail Companies earn transporting freight than they do transporting passengers but in the small town of us alabama the crescent has priority and the Freight Train waits for us to pass. Transport is the Main Business of the rare industry and the United States seven Rail Companies share the market Union Pacific is one of the oldest and most successful in the country it has forty six thousand employees and turns over twenty billion dollars per year. Goods owls are transported by truck day and night seven days a week. The thin crescent of the moon which also adorns the advertising posters of our train shines brightly in the night sky as our Journey Continues the crescent has completed just over a third of its route it travels at an average speed of around seventy Kilometers Per Hour. Were traveling in late autumn so not fools at six oclock thousands of lights eliminate the darkness atlanta is the capital city of the state of georgia the metropolitan area is home to more than five and a half Million People and yet the citys train station has just three tracks since nine hundred seventy one Long Distance rail travel in the United States has been in the hands of amtrak the crescent is the only passenger train coming. Through atlanta thats one train stopping in each direction each day. Over the past few years the situation has steadily improved. Its one of the Fastest Growing cities in the United States just two decades ago it hosted the twenty sixth summer Olympic Games its still home to a large number of well known companies. During the night we travelled through South Carolina and now we greet the dawn in North Carolina both are among the Southern States that seceded from the United States in eight hundred sixty one and joined the confederation its a dark chapter in u. S. History. The Railroad Town of spencer also lies on our journey but the crescent rushes through without stopping train enthusiasts would find a lot to enjoy there because spencer is home to the North Carolina transport Taishan Museum which opened in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. Its a very lively museum but only days were filming engine number five is taking a break. To central x. A bit hair is the round house with thirty seven sloss one of the largest in the United States there are many engines in them Museum Pieces now nevertheless visitors can get a close up experience of Railway History they learned that the post used to be delivered by train and saluted during the journey they also learned that the crescent used to be pulled by a very special machine all the cursor. So railways premier passenger train. And it even the solar ran it even after amtrak. We have one of their engines here number sixty nine hundred its a passenger locomotive its on display and around the house is famous as any of the b. S. That ran on the crest larry brown is a retired University Professor he volunteers at the museum hes the man in charge of the train today. And we have about eighty volunteers in there or maybe five or six actually did or do work for everyone elses. Some other patients but you like railroads yes it would have to be. A diesel train with several carriages makes its way through the grounds three times a day. The train is full of activity children in particular like it the museum of as many events such as a day with thomas the tank engine that attracts thousands of children and their parents turn museum that was still a small rural depo in the late Nineteenth Century it flourished and with it so too did the small town of spencer after the first World War Two thousand people worked in spencers factories in one thousand nine hundred forty the first diesel trains arrived fifteen years later steam trains were completely out of service in one nine hundred sixty the depo ceased operation and the town of spencer became less important grass grew over the complex the museum helps it record its former purpose. Steam engine six eleven is being prepped in the round house its the famous dreamliner of norfolk and west. It was housed in the museum in roanoke in virginia which was moved to spencer refurbishment since this footage was taken this its eleven was back on the rails again by mid twenty fifteen it was full steam ahead once more. To museums cinema features black and white films of the history of the railroad the railway had a significant role in opening up the continent the story of the post train ninety seven is also mentioned it traveled back and forth between washington and spencer every day but it was never to arrive on september the twenty seventh one thousand astray that journey came to a tragic end on the bridge and moved down. From. What we understand the engineer that day it was his first operating the train and there was a section of track near trestle that where the tories for being short he approached it to greater speed not knowing the route that well and the train derailed and there were several fatalities and that would result in the train not making a hero
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