group is trying to create between iris in china and a producers in africa writes it down a limb of their founder and editor in chief of the standard magazine thank you so much for your time thanks for having me monica. orange is a familiar telecoms brand across africa but in its home market fronts the company has been found guilty over a string of employee suicide starting in 2006 a former c.e.o. was sentenced to prison and his top lieutenants were convicted in a landmark ruling. france telecom was under siege back in 2006 when a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20000 employees lose their jobs the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers and scores of employees were so desperate they were driven to suicide. this man d.d.a. lombard was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. not on the. today at paris court ruled that the company now known as orange bears legal responsibility for the suicides and as sentenced to 4 months in prison for the illegal methods used to help the company shed thousands of workers lombards lawyer says he

group is trying to create between iris in china and the producers in africa writes it down the limit there founder and editor in chief of the standard magazine thank you so much for your time thanks for having me monica. orange is a familiar telecoms brand across africa but in its home market fronts the company has been found guilty over a string of employees suicide starting in 2006 a former c.e.o. was sentenced to prison and his top lieutenants were convicted in a landmark ruling. france telecom was under siege back in 2006 when a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20000 employees lose their jobs the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers and scores of employees were so desperate they were driven to suicide. this man d.d.a. lombard was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. out on the. today paris court ruled that the company now and others orange bears legal responsibility for the suicides and as sentenced lombardo to 4 months in prison for the illegal methods used to help the company shut thousands of workers from barg

alibaba but it still falls short of saudi arabia. original target. 0 economics editor for analysis on this they brought in the biggest public offering part it's fallen short of their initial target of 2 trillion dollars why well that's absolutely correct so let's have a look at this 2016 mohammed bin some man said you know i want to want to i want a company which is going to be worth 2 trillion dollars well he didn't get that he wanted to raise $100000000000.00 he didn't get that and he wanted international investors to buy into the company and he didn't get that but what you do have is a $1.00 trillion dollar company he raised $25600000000.00 is still going to be the biggest i.p.o. in history so there is some success there but the reason why international investors weren't interested in buying into the company because they didn't see the same value that the saudis did they thought the company was worth between 1 point one trillion to 1.5 trillion now the saudis wouldn't budge on that price the international vest is one of the budge

the sum raised, $25.6 billion, will top that generateesby che-commerce group alibaba when it listed on wall street i. 20 the market debut in riyadh will value the saudi company at 1. trillion dollars. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to ce on tonight's program, echoes of the arab spring. we take an in-depth look at therotests sweeping across t middle east. laura:he rainy season in east africa has been unusually heavy this year, with two months of rentless down fors.-- do wnpours. the increase could be linked to indian ocean.ures in the anne soy reports. anne: a breathtaking countryside that turned adly. son crushed to death by aand landslide. she's aining to me that there was a house here and two of her grandchildren had come in, and they sudnly heard a ud bang, and when they came out, the house had been flattened. >> a brexit hit his head and he was bleeding. i help him-- brick hit his head and he was leaving. i help=d him. but he didn't make it. i've never seen anything like this. even when we had el niÑo, they didn't have landslides. i n't know what is happening. an

will top that generated byion, chinese e-commerce group alibaba when it listed on wall street in 2014. the market debut inh riy will value the saudi company at 1.7 trillione ollars. you tching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, echoes of the arab spring. we take an in-depth look at therotests sweeping across the middle east. laura: the rainy season in east africa has been unusually heavy this year, with two months of relentless down fors.-- down urs. the increase could be linked to rising sea temperatures in the indian ocean. anne soy reports. anne:un a breathtaking yside that turned deadly. urning the loss of a grand son cshed to death by a landslide. she's exaining to me that there was a house here and two of her grandchildren had come in, and they suddenly heard a loud bang, and when ty came out, t house had been flattened. >> a brexit hit his head and he was bleeding. i help him-- brick hit his head and he was leaving. i help=d him. but he did't make it. i've never seen anything like this. len when we had el niÑo, they didn't haveandslides. i don't know

alibaba but it still falls short of saudi arabia's original target hundreds of thousands of people across france are walking off the job 1st 2nd day and 1st day of protests turned violent in some cities demonstrators are angry at president rabbani micron's planned pension reforms but worried the changes would force them to work for more years and reduce payouts straightly and firefighters are struggling to contain massive bushfires and circling sydney the fire service commissioner said they're particularly concerned about 8 fires now to merge and sea levels more than $600.00 homes have been destroyed as the headlines the news continues here in al-jazeera after inside story. they've been bringing the whole thing is a political deadlock since the threats that referendum on the table still to be divided will the general election on december the 12th anything that can boris johnson get the rx it done and where does the u.k. go from here follow the u.k. general election. trains and busses at a standstill schools and businesses closed workers in front stage one of the biggest strikes in decades

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other groups have expressed interest in applying, including founderire alibaba jack ma's ant financial. and speaking of grab, co-founders anthony tan hooi ling tan spoke to our reporter in may. we will hear how they have their grab a supering app. >> it is not just softbank. the $3 billion was raised from hyundai, booking, microsoft, ping an, oppenheimer. we're very blessed with the global best names one can imagine. >> but why continue to raise money rather than going to the public markets? superause of our ambitions that now involve a much broader set of services to our customers. there needs to be additional investment and innovation, and our partners identify the opportunity and understand, we want you to do it. they are encouraging us to go weger, bolder, better, so can serve southeast asia more consistently. >> tell me about your relationship with masa. he's said you can have unlimited capital, but you are not asking for unlimited capital? >> no, that means unlimited dilution. [laughter] we're extremely close and we're very blessed to have a mentor and friend and partner in this