retire, you know? i ve been practising hard all this year to make sure i can win it again. i m looking forward to, you know, bringing sid home again next year. it ll be very difficult. a lot of darts to be thrown between now until then. i believe i can do it. then. i believe i can do it. despite his siemen then. i believe i can do it. despite his sjoman reputation, then. i believe i can do it. despite his sjoman reputation, the - then. i believe i can do it. despite his sjoman reputation, the world | his sjoman reputation, the world number two s celebrations were understated to say the least. ihla understated to say the least. fir? celebration at all, to be honest, just a nice cup of tea and a pot noodle. , ., ,, , no better way to celebrate than that. beijing s winter olympics are due to begin injust one month but the growing number of coronavirus infections threatens to overshadow the games as teams prepare to head to china from all over the world. china s solution is strict
considered important indicator of where the broader economy is headed. it s cutting the revenue guidance for the year by $1 billion. another blow to the solar industry. germany based siemen s is getting rid of the solar investment and will concentrate renewable on wind and hydro power. there will be one person in the live audience tonight with a unique perspective, coming up in the grapevine. several big names in the mainstream media are now saying the libya scandal really isn t a story. grapevine is next. .seems like you guys got a little gassed out there. enough already. c mon guys. next question. mr. lewis? what s your favorite color? what s my favorite color? yes. purple. what s your favorite animal? sea turtle. what s your bedtime? do you believe in space aliens?
exclusive interview. then we ll go on a tour around the world with a global panel. neil ferguson, mubani and khanfar. also, how in the world did one of the world s greatest sellers in the global bazaar lose its mojo? i ll explain. but first, here s my take. president obama spoke forcefully in his state of the union about the importance of reviving manufacturing in america. if you talk with economists, they ll tell you it s a very complex problem. involving taxes, trade, regulatory policy, exchange rates, educational skills. it is all of those things. but when you move from high-level policy to specific cases, you ll often find one element that is rarely talked about, a government s role in boosting its domestic manufactur manufacturers. in a front-page story last week, the new york times detailed how apple s iphone ended up being made outside america. the times wrote about the apple executives who visited a factory in china to see if it could cut the glass precisely f
that s 50 years if you run that consecutive, plus the attempted rape, that s 15, so that s 65 that he s looking at if he were to take it to jury, lose at trial, be quitted of the three top counts and have the maximum sentences run consecutively. wouldn t this be seen by a jury of regular people, say a few maids, perhaps, a few cab drivers, rely lard people, regular new yorkers with a new york attitude about this kind of a situation? wouldn t this guy have a very hard time getting any sympathy? we don t know what his defense will be yet. he s tried alibi, he s tried conspiracy, he s tried consent. we re waiting to hear results back from dna to see if there s a compilation of saliva and siemen in the same sample. that would be quite damning. why would that be damning? explain that if the combination of those two fluids would be
coming from davos. let s catch up on what s been happening on the stock market around the world. in europe, and this is where they stand. fairly quiet day. the london ftse, slightly in the red. the other three markets just slightly in the green. despite the fact that it was a pretty strong finish on wall street overnight. investors got local numbers to digest. in uk, gdp data is due out in less than half an hour around they expect the uk economy to have slowed further. in germany, gfk consumer confidence index came out a little earlier today. it hit a three-year high. the dax is up by 3/10 of 1%. french consumer spending numbers come out heard today. and one big corporate number, europe s biggest engineering company, semens posting earnings to $2.4 billion. that profit beat market expectations and sent siemen is