And experts warn too much celebration could trigger a 2nd coronavirus wait. Welcome to the business i want to get jones and berlin good to have you with us the United States and to google i headed to Court Washington has filed an antitrust lawsuit against google accusing the company of illegally using its market power against its competitors the government says google has borge its success by paying a mobile phone makers and others to make it the default search that engine google controls about 90 percent of global web searches its the biggest challenge the u. S. Has launched against the Tech Companies and a landmark case against microsoft and that was back in 1998. So lets get some analysis on this now from our financial correspondent Chelsea Delaney in frankfurt chelsea. Please tell me i mean so what exactly is illegal about googles business model. Its no surprise that google is seen as a monopoly here but what the government is alleging is illegal is the way that google has attained
Grateful to the coronavirus pandemic. Back on to do business i want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us the u. S. Economy desperately needs a new stimulus package as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc but with a president ial election week weeks away the parties are divided amid political wrangling and last week president to donald trump called off the negotiations on sunday now u. S. Treasury secretary Steven Menuhin proposed that 175000000000. 00 in unspent 8 to Small Businesses be released immediately to east the stalemate the argument of the total package is much bigger though the democrats want a plan worth more than 2 trillion dollars so far republicans have not gone past 1. 8 trillion. 1000000000 trillion Chelsea Delaney our financial correspondent in frankfurt can probably. Make sense of that so the democrats when will the 2 trillion dollars trump has offered 1. 00 trillion before basically saying no and now we hear the stigma nugent suggest a mere 230000000000 d
The students of the past. Training successful. Such as. Starts october 16th. East african stock markets are joining hands they want to learn more capital and big businesses but kenya has pulled out of the planets taking a lot of financial firepower with it. As a hot spot france is seeing record numbers. Infections are rising across europe so are new fears for the economy. And thailand wants to cash in on the growing medical marijuana market that is so weve got the details. Globe welcome to the show im stephen busy in berlin its good to have you with us and we begin today in east africa where 3 countries uganda tanzania and rwanda are preparing to merge their stock markets and the project is funded by the world bank and the aim is to make cross border trading easier tanzanias Stock Exchange features 27. 00 companies with a combined market cap of 6500000000. 00 uganda has 17 together with more than 5000000001. 00 has 10 publicly listed companies have a combined value of 3 and a half 1000
Is some good news local booksellers are thriving right now in germany pandemic really is a page turner. And welcome to the show im Stephen Beard in berlin its good to have you with us and we begin in germany where the pen dimmock is leaving a deeper imprint on the economy than previously thought thats according to a new joint report published by the countrys leading Economic Research institutes theyve downgraded projections made earlier in the year forecasting now that the German Economy will shrink by 5. 4 percent and 20. Thats more than a percentage point worse than the earlier projections but they also predict a slow recovery compared to prior forecasts infection rates are rising again in germany meeting to new business restrictions. And one of the authors of that report joins me now stefan crudes is head of the Forecasting Division at the kill institute for the World Economy stuff and its good to have you with us. First obvious question what is driving this report what is driving t
A dark past efforts in been in to tell the story of slavery using what it left behind. Hello im told me a lot of boy its good to have your company the World Health Organization calls it an extreme form of discrimination and a way of controlling women were talking about female genital mutilation or f g m more than 200000000 women and girls alive today have had parts of their genitalia removed for nonmedical reasons of the 30 countries where women are subjected to f g m 27 are in africa the dark red areas on this map show the countries where more than 50 percent of women have had their genitals mutilated such as somalia sudan and mali in the orange areas the figure is 26 to 50 percent and the yellow areas is between 11 and 25 percent. One member of the muscle using her fame as a form a mist tanzania to try to end what she describes as a barbaric practice. Diana edward lucas is a 22 year old messiah woman shes trying to break the silence the silence surrounding female genital mutilation o