Senators mourning a Swiss Company about crippling sanctions put out of business if it doesnt stop working on the almost completed north stream through pipeline. Youre watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we begin with breaking news this hour 3 and a half years after the british people voted for the u. K. To leave the European Union 3 Prime Ministers later and 4 deals rejected by parliament m. P. s have finally given their backing to an exit plan the Withdrawal Agreement bill was passed and parliament in the last hour with 3 158. 00 in favor and 234. 00 against all the bill still faces further scrutiny in the house of commons and also lords it means the u. K. Is now on course to leave the e. U. At the end of next month ill be crossing live to london for the latest later in the program to stay with us. And other Headline News an investigation is underway to identify the gunman who opened fire outside the federa
Its a huge market ecommerce in africa but so far only one in 20 people are making use of it china is on the bubble and International Trade platform could change that but. Also coming up the dark side of orange a court rules the Telecoms Company sponsors drove employees to suicide. And will the rise of ecommerce spelled bad news for south africas glitzy make up all this. Im not a jones and this is due to the business africa welcome. Online shopping is huge in most parts of the world in germany some 94 percent of Internet Users over 16 shop online but the situation in africa is very different there are fewer than one in 20 people use ecommerce a huge potential market but there are hurdles regulations such as Consumer Protection are lacking in many regions and purchases often dont trust Online Retail infrastructure is another problem if roads are bad reliable deliveries cant be guaranteed Rural Regions often dont have street names house numbers and Payment Systems are often in adequate de
Scrutiny of all of this. The guardian, christmas is barely over and thoughts are turning to the new year and and thoughts are turning to the new yearand an and thoughts are turning to the new year and an interesting story in the guardian about what will happen in edinburgh at this new year, if you wa nt to edinburgh at this new year, if you want to start . What will happen is if you live in certain parts you will struggle to get your own home so will struggle to get your own home so the big hogmanay celebrations coming up and an Entertainment Company is dealing with that, 70,000 expected and if you live in the streets where this is going on, you must apply for permission to actually get into your own home. Should you wish to hold a party yourself, you then can only get up to six tickets for guests because it is already going ahead in the area. Not unreasonably, residents are up in arms i predict a rumpus the city council says she will not need passes but the Company Running this insist
A deal in principle and one that will have many people feel relieved after hours of discussions Russia Ukraine and the European Union have reached a tentative gas deal which will go into effect on january 1st the deal was brokered right here in berlin and heres what we know about it. These pipes up front and center of a geopolitical crisis natural gas is supposed to be sent from russia to germany to supply the e. U. With one of its Major Energy Sources the north stream and nordstrom to pipelines. Bypass ukraine and save on billions in transit fees that are currently a major source of income for the neighboring country. Not to rely entirely on the north rim deliberate system russia still wants to send some gas to ukraine asked for ukraine the country depends on gas from russia but moscow has weaponized its supply in the past cutting it off repeatedly in the 1990 s. Russian president putin says similar action is no longer planned. We are not going to sign any kind of contract with ukrain
Information about millions of users was exposed online for anyone to access. Live from moscow where its just past 2 in the morning youre watching International Welcome to the program. Russias Investigative Committee has released the identity of the gunman who was opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal Security Service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old evgeny manure of lived in the Moscow Region he killed the f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital and 5 other people including one civilian were injured at the moment the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing heres how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shooting. Because usually when you get to the end we heard strange sounds we needed to realize that we should hide it then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. To us and thats when the man wasnt shooting randomly and i think we heard him shout out something but we