A container giant is on its way to its home port. More than thirteen thousand containers fit on how pad lloyds newest vessels there the pride and joy of this Long Established Company and its one hundred and seventeen year history. This hamburg based shipping line is seeking to catch up with the frontrunners and become a Global Player. But can its plans work out. The enormous cargo ship as an express is one of the companys largest vessels first officer tobias come on started his watch in rotterdam. So hes been on board for just twelve hours but as the man in charge of the cargo he has to make sure the visit to the home port of hamburg is as quick as a pit stop. And see a few friends and we have lots of containers for him book where on loading roughly three thousand one hundred all that will be done in forty eight hours it will be a very busy period on board. To illustrate what that means the three thousand one hundred containers on trucks would form a queue around fifty kilometers long
A researcher whos been in touch with trap civilians in eastern. Plus catalonia is almost a president makes an offer after winning a slim majority carlos pushed along once in dialogue with the Spanish Government but Prime Minister marianna oil is playing hardball he says hell meet the leader of the Biggest Party and that hes not pushed more. Staying in spain the Festive Season is all about children singing songs that bring billions of euros el gordo the fat one is here again the worlds biggest pig water it is bringing celebrations and cash to the streets of spain. Im sara harmon welcome to the show its good to have you with us major power. Ours in the syria conflict say theyll hold peace talks in the russian resort of sochi at the end of next month russia turkey and iran so the meeting will involve both rubbles and the government damascus has confirmed it will attend but the opposition hasnt confirmed yet of the u. N. Special envoy for syria Staffan De Mistura so the initiative would be
A lot of these stocks are struggling. Ofare seeing a little bit trading volumes. You can see ibex by far the biggest loser. Almost down 1 . The tax cut in the u. S. Has been priced in. They now want to focus on 2018. Volatilityin so much heading down from 50 . He had some just 15 . We had 15 . We had some good stories. Coming up on the program, we are plenty more of catalonia. Garcia. Joseph that is coming up. We have a brexit show looking at the 2017 negotiations and little willater, jason furman talk. We will talk about the shutdown and whether that can be avoided. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek. Cooks the u. S. Senate has given approval for certain extending u. S. Senate has given extension. R such an the final measure will maintain current levels of spending through january. It will provide 4. 5 billion in emergency funding. China has signaled it is ready to back another round of sanctions to north korea. The Un Security Council to set the vote today
I want to get the state this is the wish of the couple of people you got to go through that a new era in catalonia will emerge based on dialogue not confrontation on an imprint. Despite the all the that force come from the spending to state the violence of oppression. Despite this. We are stronger than ever with the political decisions must not dictate a little political soul we need to do to found you a political solution for our crazed crisis which in the span of just eight and get along by the next step is to talk with me on record if youre going to give the senate i would need to sit with this the winner of the election is not see this is our remote us next. Also coming out on the day discovering your inner santa we visit a father christmas bootcamp and find out what it takes to make this season. But first we begin the day with more uncertainty for spains cattle on region after separatists there won a crucial vote against anti independence parties the vote was widely seen as a mome
Passes a short term funding bill bitcoin is cratering this morning and its the final session before a threeday weekend. Look for news dumps, europe is mixed and durable and consumer income a slight miss more data come in an an hour bitcoin down for first week since 2013 as Goldman Sachs throws its hat into the crypto ring. Shutdown avoided in washington for now waiting for President Trump and go live to d. C. For the latest. Eric schmit stepping down for his role as executive chairman at alphabet. What that means for the company. Bitcoin is the lead today extending this weeks bearish run hitting a record high on sunday the crypto currency tumbled sharply in asia and wiping out a fourth of the market value in a 24hour span 12. 5 is the price people are looking at for the week youre looking at 30 drawdown as our friend josh brown stepped in. Doesnt get you back to thanksgiving it was about 8,000 when it really started to lift off in late november, early december. Should have had so many