Hello and welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. The shares of alibaba and 10 cent fell sharply on wednesday. Hit by concerns of a new anti trust legislation by the chinese government. Beijing has published a 1st draft of the monopolistic rules aimed at the countrys tech giants. Well, they are not accused of any wrongdoing. Investors fear that new rules could impact their growth in the future. Alibaba shares were down more than 8 percent on the day. That on the same date announced record turnover from its singles day sales promotion. Beijings actions come on the heels of growing regulatory action elsewhere against tech. The u. S. Justice department suing google for antitrust violations last month and European Commission filing antitrust charges against amazon. On monday. Lets go now to our financial correspondent in frankfurt, chelsey de laney. I do not believe that is jealousy. Maybe we can get chelsea up. Theres jealousy. Good morning, josi
Drug makers. Deliveries could begin as soon as the end of this year. American held welcome. Germany has criticized china for the dismissal of 4 prodemocracy opposition, politicians in hong kong legislature. Several of their fellow, mike is also resigned in solidarity after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the islands chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. Beijing has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law. Opponents say it spells the end of the territorys fight for democratic rights. That way if they were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong, now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement. Want to go that they got all the decision made by the National Peoples congress today. It is extremely ridiculous. It shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law an
At what point is it delayed, and 1st transition is risk National Security. There will be a slew transition to a 2nd drug administration. Right. President trump didnt win the election. Every single one of my colleagues knows this. He is declaring them so himself to be the winner of an election that hes lost. I dont think were going to have an interrupted transition to whoever is the next ministration. Well, i just think it should have bearish. And frankly, also coming up do the police need policing. A new study in germany claims officers are more likely to use Excessive Force on immigrants and people of color. They called us lebanese dirty foreignness. And so on later, my sister told me that after they took me away, one of the offices set, this isnt your country and you cant behave like any months here. Or to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin the day with americas unfinished elections. It has been more than a week since vo
To be enough to break the breaks it deadlock. To us thousands of people take the streets again calling for the government to address inequality. Lebanons president michel aoun is expected to issue a statement on the Prime Ministers resignation sadly heidi handed in his notice on tuesday after weeks of nationwide protests i do he says hes reached a dead end daily with the unprecedented demonstrations and violence that power lies the country so hold the reports from beirut. Unrest in the streets of beirut running battles in the heart of the lebanese capital. Police moved in after hundreds of men allied with Political Parties in power attacked government demonstrators who have been in the streets for almost 2 weeks demanding the ruling elite leaves office the Prime Minister saddam how d. D. Has now handed his Resignation Letter to the president. Put the. 13 days the lebanese people have waited for a decision for a political solution that would stop the deterioration of i have tried during
Although the war was only three years ago, the city was still occupied and cut up like a pipe youd a pie. Some could find jobs, but others had to find places to build. Like the rest of the war the world, there were shortages. But the people lived in comparative peace. The effort of the military offices of u. S. Was showing results. I was impressed by manufacturing for peace. Subways taking people to work and trolleys taking them home. Places of amusement. Hospitals had milk for new babies. There was even music in the park. Everyone forgot or took for granted electricity, roads. Vittles. June, 1948, when suddenly the trains stopped. Traffic between berlin and the western zones was banned. Canceled timetables. Dead drains. Walls of words. City. Blockaded the they put out 75 of the lights. People used candles of they could find them. Movement in and out of the city stopped. Factories now manufactured hunger and fear. Vegetables were planted in the parks and trading was more brisk in the a