We start with uber, the taxi giant has been branching out into everything from food delivery to electric bike hire and later today, its launching this uber works an app that puts casual workers in touch with employers. It will allow say a waiter or a cleaner to compare pay rates and conditions and sign up for shifts. The system will start on a trial basis in chicago. Uber works is designed to cash in on the massive growth in freelance working via digital platforms, known as the gig economy. Nobody really knows how big it is, but according to estimates by Staffing Industry Analysts it was worth 4. 5 trillion globally last year. To put that in perspective, in the us, 53 Million People did some kind of freelance work last year, often on top of a regularjob. That equates to more than a third of the workforce. If it keeps growing at the current rate, more than half will be freelance within a decade. According to deloittes survey of millennials, or people in their 20s and 30s, almost two thi
An end to rubbish collection and renewed concern about the spread of disease. Going. President leonine modano has ordered an overnight curfew in areas close to government buildings thousands of protesters of class with the Security Forces in the capital in a 6 day a violent demonstrations protests as angry after the government scrapped 40 year old field subsidies as part of an economic reform plan linked to an i. M. F. Loan. With a belief that the democratic system cannot be violated the constitution cannot be violated you cannot damage the assets of the ecuadorians and the ecuadorian people in general and of course even less damage to the physical integrity of people thats why were here. Heres our latin america new man reporting from quito. Im about 200 meters from the entrance to the doors national. Short while ago. 7 to tear down Police Barricades and almost make it inside they were pushed back with tear gas and by other 2 other methods the been doing this all day long trying to cas
Continues its military build up for an operation against kurdish fighters amid warnings it colored trigger and news imaginary and crisis and the us urges iraqs Prime Minister to exercise maximum restraint after the death of more than a 100 people in recent demonstrations. Ecuadors government says its open to international mediations the country grapples with a 6th day of anti austerity demonstrations or protest as angry after the government scrapped 40 year old fuel subsidies as part of Economic Reforms linked to an i. M. F. Loan or protesters in the capital briefly stormed the heavily guarded parliament and clashed with Security Forces and other government buildings in quito what also attacked and damaged it comes hours after president 11 moreno announced that he had temporarily moved Government Operations from the capital the center of the protests to the port city of guy or killed. Not sit with the belief that its a democratic system cannot be violated the constitution cannot be vio
With all these documents mike hanna aljazeera washington. Well the u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee has found that russia was behind essential media to see Information Campaign designed to influence the 2016 president ial election the Committee Report outlines how social media platforms were used to say a division and to spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected u. S. Intelligence chase trace the accounts to the Internet Research agency thats a Russian Organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes findings of the report which led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the Internet Research agency. Now an aide to turkey is president has told the Reuters News Agency that a military intervention against the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces all the s. D. F. In Northern Syria is about to begin turkish troops gathering near the Syrian Border in preparation for an offensive against the kurdish led s. D. F. It follows a preemptive stri
Something he vowed never to do when he took office. The demonstrators were further angered when they found out that president would it all had moved the executive branch overnight to the coastal city of by a key. For hours and well into the night protesters tried without success to overcome riot police. In an attempt to surround the president ial palace and National Assembly was some of the Indigenous Leaders are asking them to move the way of the big airline except riskin to march to another part of the city but theyre angry they say they are not going to budge that they havent so far to turn back now. The leader of the National Confederation of Indigenous People told aljazeera there would be no dialogue until president what in return to keep it or and repeals the decree. If modern a doesnt want to administer this country with this social chaos where theres no social justice no freedom of the country for ever to join that of a fugitive from justice expresident korea they can live toge