Live from london, this is business today. We start with uber, the us Tech Firm that has become a global transport giant. Around The World some 6 Million people work as drivers and couriers through the uber app, and their services are used by 150 Million people at least once a month. Well, the boss of uber, dara khosrowshahi, has been talking to our business editor simonjack, about their plans to make the firm greener and get more of their drivers using Electric Cars. But hes worried that trade tensions with china are getting in the way. The us and europe are hitting chinese Electric Cars with hefty Import Taxes or tariffs to protect their own auto makers, making them more expensive. I think cheap chinese vehicles are a good thing for the environment. And i would tell you that china is transitioning from notjust being cheap but also being high quality and for us, we want to electrify our fleet and make sure it is affordable for our drivers to switch over to evs. The political considerat
Live in a village far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city thats the ideal for a lot of people in germany actually many refuse to move to other places because their families have owned the land for generations but the villages in our next report may soon disappear one of germanys Largest Energy firms has been allowed to relocate all of the People Living in the village of kind back in western germany the Company Wants to expand its coal mining activities in the brown coal mine of god but many villages are not ready to give up their homes. For close to the village the greater the threat to north and its far. From. Here and the figure is already right there in front. Its about 3 or 400 metres away its come a lot closer in the last few. Only 3 more years than this whole undesigned would have disappeared to guts for the europes largest open cast lignite mind germany has pledged to phase out cold by 2038 but thats too late for the vid since. They live as an extended family on this
A shadow pandemic they have an urgent appeal dont look away step in and help when women become victims of Domestic Violence turkish women are protesting against government plans to withdraw from the is simple convention on combating violence against women even though more and more women are being murdered. Violence against women in turkey has been on the rise for years the perpetrators are often people will known to the victims a husband and ex partner earlier this year one case that sent shock waves through the town of backyard kind western turkey is that of p. Not good to kitten she was killed by her exboyfriends back in july more than 200 women have become victims of femicide just this year but now turkish president to one wants to withdrawal from a European Convention that was designed specifically to protect women from violence and abuse there is strong opposition against this plan not just in p. R. s hometown. The friends describe her as a fun loving young woman. This was the ima
Supreme court sparking a backlash from democrats. Divided over the pandemic tensions rise between brazil and argentina over each others handling of the crisis. Really affected us even financially. Clubs who didnt have the money. And fears for the future of kenyan Football Players hope the government will lift a ban on Contact Sports. Now theres been a major flare up in violence between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed nagano region Armenias Defense Ministry spokesman tweeted out these images apparently showing azerbaijan and tanks being destroyed by jan says its launched a large counter offensive along the for. Unline the region has declared martial law and the mobilization of its male population weve got a cut above is internationally recognized as part of the as a base jan but its controlled by Armenian Forces robin for us to walk or is monitoring developments from tbilisi in georgia joins us on the phone from there so lets start with this general mobilization going on in the g
High temperatures engulfing massive tracts of land in 3 u. S. States. And arrested for criticizing the government crackdown lawyer and activist maxine snack is the latest opposition figure to be detained in belarus. No fires are again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by an overnight blaze its left south of Asylum Seekers without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the fire people are reportedly fleeing the area again as the new bases take hold around 12000. 00 people were housed at the maria camp on the island of lesbos Officials Say the fires were started by refugees forced to self isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus concerns of a Public Health crisis arising with the whereabouts of more than 30 migrants with coded 19 unknown. Correspondent on surpluses in the lesbos forest so what is the situation there now. Hello lauren as you can see over my Left Shoulder the fire is still burning well rather its burning again because the f