of this fiscal year. the news comes as pressure mounts from an activist investor who s been critical of the company, including its disappointing stats at the box office. the company also narrowed its losses specifically in streaming. disney plus increased prices this fall and lost subscribers over that. but because each subscriber is paying more for the service, its average revenue per user went up. disney plus is streaming offerings include espn plus the focus of a lot of attention this week. the company announced earlier this week that it s partnering with fox and warner brothers discovery to launch a new sports streaming operation with espn this year. and ceo bob iger said wednesday that the company is taking a $1.5 billion stake in epic games. it s disney s biggest move in the game space, yet. another focus of attention, disney and politics again after a very public, multi year spat with and lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis, who accused the company of being l
crash hitting demand for goods and pushing down prices. joining me now is mark williams chief asia economist at capital economics. these figures will not make for welcome reading once again. just looking at the stats there, the biggest contraction since 2009. why? critics succes what is going on here is yellow let s start with. the weeks ahead is yellow let s start with. the weeks ahead of is yellow let s start with. tue: weeks ahead of chinese is yellow let s start with. tte: weeks ahead of chinese new is yellow let s start with. he weeks ahead of chinese new year, is yellow let s start with. me: weeks ahead of chinese new year, we often see quite big changes in prices in china. that s probably tucked down the date forjanuary a little bit but the big picture is that china has been in deflation for a while. that is pointing to widespread weakness in the economy. there is a lack of confidence there and it is notjust consumer prices that have been falling, we have also b
presidentjose ramos horta, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you in the studio. i think it s fair to say you ve given most of your life to the struggle for freedom in timor leste, east timor, as we used to know it, and you have served as its president, not just once, but twice. you decided to come back in 2022 to seek the presidency again. was that a tough decision, to come back? yes. on a personal basis, yes. it was not in my plan, but then mr xanana gusmao, now prime minister, whom i deeply respect, he asked me to run again. ..to put timor leste back on the map of the world, because it was neglected, forgotten for a few years, because we ve been living in peace and tranquillity, so we did not constitute news. but at the same time, with so many conflicts in the world, we were running the risk of being forgotten. so. and then our asean accession. so i was asked to serve, to be the visible face of the campaign for our asean accession.
some trading restrictions put on the market three days ago. we had a situation already where sentiment has been weakening since about mid january on the lack of stimulus measures by the government. so after the last inflation numbers, so we could have an overreaction, but then again the trading restrictions being what they are right now it s very hard to play out the numbers especially with ten days of holidays coming up after tomorrow. days of holidays coming up after tomorrow. , ., ., after tomorrow. yes. so what do ou think after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction from - after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction from the l you think the reaction from the chinese government is going to be then to these numbers that are worst than expected? i think because of the holiday period, they may be buying themselves a few days to think about what to do
its goal of cutting 7.5 billion by the end of this fiscal year. pressure mounts from an activist who has been critical of the company including its disappointing stats at the box office. the company also narrowed its losses specifically in streaming. disney plus increased prices this fall. the they lost subscribers over that. but because each subscriber is paying more for the service, the average revenue per user went up. disney plus is streaming offerings including espn+. the focus of a lot of attention this week. the company announced earlier this week it s partnering with fox and warner bros to launch a new sports streaming this year and ceo said wednesday that the company is taking a $1.5 billion stake in epic games as disney s big move in the game space yet. another focus of attention, disney and politics again after a very public multi year spat with and law suit against florida governor ron desantis who accused the company of being liberal and progressive. actor gina c