On t. W. This is you know we news live from berlin showdown in the gulf britain says a royal navy forget has driven off iranian boats trying to intercept a British Oil Tanker but iran denies there was any confrontation also coming up on the show a powerful storm devastated greece is from northern coastal areas leaving 7 dead and Dozens Injured plus a french lawmakers to vote for a Digital Services tax that washington says unfairly targets american tech giants
good to us speak airing out full but no other trade war this time with france. Its great to have you along everyone britain says 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the persian gulf but were driven off by a Royal Navy Frigate iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop the tanker in the Strait Of Hormuz saying its boats were carrying out routine duty. The Strait Of Hormuz one of the worlds busiest Shipping Lanes through which a 3rd of the worlds seaborne oil passes. Irans navy is an active presence
This is business a zone d. W. News i was in berlin welcome can facebook take cryptocurrency mainstream the Worlds Largest Social Network unveiled the digital coin it plans to roll out next year the project is called libera according to media reports and proponents say it could revolutionize Digital Payments under a single streamlined currency more than a dozen global firms will invest in and govern the currency like master card vodafone and this group was supposedly wall of control of the currency from facebook itself the facebook coin will be picked so a basket of global currencies like the dollar and the euro or the pound to shield it from the wild fluctuations that has plagued bitcoin and scared off many average investors and potential users but will the new cryptocurrency catch on facebook bets the state of the social Network Alone with 2400000000 monthly users will forge
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Im not going to think out of the well i guess sometimes i found myself in with the group of germans think stephen through german culture looking at the stereotype quirks and idiosyncrasies of the country that i dont. Need to see ridiculous grammar of their own to me its all about their new im rachel joins me from the germans on the w. Post. Youre watching t w news coming up the death and destruction was a text message really behind the deaths of more than 30 people in indonesia the problem also. Is this berlin youth hostel violating u. N. Sanctions against north korea. Plus the Big Fat Fight against fat shaming we meet the indian Theatre Group standing up to socialistic balanced. Im Melissa Chan Welcome To News Asia thanks for joining deadly violence has hit a remote part of indonesia this week violence that appears to have started because of a text message it happened in papa province which is next to pop into guinea its a place ethnically and culturally distinct from much of the rest
Mounting and not at least was the last president ial election was the cambridge analytical scandal surrounding facebook weve seen that they are real consequences from the Business Practices of some of the big tech giants with google we all saw a couple of months ago had protests from the employees because of google thinking about. A Search Engine for the Chinese Market so wherever you look there is more pressure coming up from the European Union from australia from the u. K. From france and now all still from the United States by the way basically all of the Attorney General of almost all of the u. S. States are participating in this the only example being alabama and california thats the state where google has its headquarters and the e. U. Commission has hit tech giants with hefty fines also to prove a point whos boss here one of the Companies Expect what are they to expect from the u. S. Its really hard too early to tell at this point to go on for quite some time then the companies