including taiwan based to support marriage equality in japan softbank is investing nine hundred million euros in german financial technology company wire card in a deal that could give it more than a five percent stake wire card specializes in electronic payment services and was a rising star of germany s fin tech sector but was shaken for a while by a series of allegations of irregularities in its asian operation. it has health plantations and the chance to see wild elephants attract tens of thousands of tourists to sri lanka every year but the devastating terrorist attacks on easter sunday have shaken the country where tourism accounts for five percent of g.d.p. the hotel and hospitality sector now fear is the effect on visitor numbers. the beaches are empty a result of the terror attacks most tourists have gone home others are too scared
policy does its part and tries to improve investment conditions as well a lot of work for berlin there thank you very much claimants foods president of the for institute. japan s softbank is to invest nine hundred million euros or a billion u.s. dollars in the troubled financial technology company why it s called the german specializes in providing electronic payments was a rising star of germany s fin tech sector but has been shaken was series of financial times articles that made allegations about this angel peroration soft bank which has a robotics division will gain a state of more than five percent. it s been called the booze in frankfurt that can t have left investors unimpressed absolutely. caught up more than ten percent this wednesday obviously the markets believe that you know this large investment by soft bank will make it more difficult for short
could have been me but i haven t lost but i also know seeing those three kids daughter i know i have three kids i know how they must be feeling right it s only the argument say to them is that you know it s you know we should we feel that we feel their pain and i feel their pain you know i mean my hearts are with them. for many the morning has only just begun with an uncertain path lying ahead. indians have been voting today in the third and biggest phase of the country s more than month long general elections voters are electing a new parliament and prime minister narendra modi from the ruling hindu nationalists b j p is seeking a second term his main challenger is the leader of the opposition congress party ra hold on the the election is the world s biggest with a nine hundred million voters in total eligible to vote they have to elect five hundred forty three representatives to the lower house of parliament called the
for us on wall street high end so first lift now pin to rest another bellwether for how tech unicorns might perform as a publicly traded companies now what the picture is emerging for investors so far. well i mean especially if we look at the pinterest it s a good omen for all those i.p.o. s to come probably early may we might see the i.p.o. of over so that would be by far the biggest i.p.o. in a years but you mentioned to live so we can t really judge from one day when a lift started trading weeks ago the stock also had a very solid first day of trading but since then has dropped to seventeen percent from its i.p.o. price but you did mention that pinterest is also not profitable but their loss is rather small with sixty to sixty million dollars in the past year lift in comparison last year had a loss of nine hundred million dollars but it was certainly is solid start and now
with not just fish midis watching for they don t see this all over india will focus on the issue of kashmir all right so this has been a central talking point in the lead up to the vote tell us more about this election you know india is the world s largest democracy and this is only the second of a seven stages of voting. that s right so me every time india goes toward the general election it s the largest exercise in democracy in the history of the world essentially seven phases and from the fourth to affording people actually have to wait six weeks to find out who the next prime minister is going to be so large just sickly it s a massive challenge indeed and the requirement from the election commission is that water should have access to a polling station within a two kilometer radius and that nine hundred million people are going to the board that is quite a task in itself this is the second phase off to five more years of the mean nineteenth will be the last day off polling and jus