30/01/2017 World Business Report

Airlines juggle flight crew and passengers,

while the tech giant Google urges some staff not to leave the country.

We'll find out how companies are being impacted by the US travel

Benoit Hamon is chosen as France's socialist candidate

for the country's upcoming election but will his pledge

of a pay-cheque for all be enough to lure voters?

Welcome to World Business, Report I'm Sally Bundock.

Also in the programme another computer glitch grounds domestic

President Trump is standing firm on his ban on immigration from seven

countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,

He's also denying the measures are targeting muslims.

He's also denying the measures are targeting Muslims.

The leaders of many global business have been swift to react -

the technology firms among the first to speak out.

Google says it will take legal action to protect its employees.

It's urging staff who could be caught up in the ban not

The head of Tesla, Elon Musk, says the ban isn't the best way

to address challenges the country is facing -

and says he will take up industry concerns with President Trump's

Emirates - one of the world's biggest long haul carriers -

has had to change flight rosters for pilots and cabin crew.

While Etihad - the national airline for the United Arab Emirates -

says it is offering affected passengers the option to refund

Blake Chisam is a partner with the US immigration law firm

One of the problems is the confusion? Absolutely. If there is

confusion and fluidity in what is going on. Companies are finding that

if they had a senior executive, senior engineer outside the country

on business and all of a sudden he or she cannot come back for at least

90 days that is going to cause problems to businesses. Key members

of staff could be stuck, some could even be de change in airports. You

have the likes of Google saying we are going to take legal actions.

What should companies be doing? It is not what they should be doing it

is what they are doing. They are thinking about this and trying to

understand some broad language in the executive order which was not

vetted as carefully as it should have been. In the future they will

have to solve the problems affect their employees. These kinds of

actions by the US government need to be vetted properly and really made

to see the light of day with the technical experts that can make it

work well. Many as saying this was signed on Friday and has caused

complete chaos since then. Many would argue, who is around Mr Trump

to advise him. He is a businessman, you would assume that is something

in his mind? I do not assume anything. Talking to people and

understanding how the system works and making sure to take this

confusion out of the system and make it less fluid and more certain so

that businesses can plan and keep their people at work and safe. We

appreciate your time. A lot more appreciation on our website if

you're wanting to more information. Benoit Hamon will be

the French Socialist Party's candidate in the presidential

elections in April, after winning The state of the world's sixth

biggest economy is one of the main reasons he's got the chance

to replace Francois Hollande Benoit Hamon is a 49-year-old former

education minister whose key economic policies include a working

week of just 32 hours. Also a tax on robots

which would fund a basic income of about $800 - that's

750 euros per month - He comfortably beat former prime

minister, Manuel Valls. And now Mr Hamon will have

to convince the rest of France he can reduce the stubbornly

high unemployment rate Another big challenge

is the budget deficit. The latest figures showed that

in 2015 the government spent 3.5% more

than it brought in. That's beyond the EU

limit of 3 percent. And when the presidential election

happens in April Mr Hamon will be fighting off the pro-business former

Socialist economy minister Emmanuel The centre-right Republican's

Francois Fillon who wants And the leader of the far-right

Front National Marine Le Pen who wants to exit the

European single currency. Tomasz Michalski is an associate

professor of economics at HEC Nice to see you again. Give us your

take on the weekend news and what you think of Benoir Hamon. Thank you

for having me. Basically, yesterday parse mac election marks the closing

of the first phase of the presidential campaign. The rough

crystallising around major issues. The first, how far to go with market

reforms of the French economy. Francois Fillon Francois Fillon the

most radical pro- market profiler. And then to different candidates

saying to try something else - Benoir Hamon will try to do a hard

plastic left stimulus, for example increasing the minimum wage and

shorten the working week. A lot of measures that even... They are so

radical they have not been tried before. Marine Le Pen saying to

install tariffs and 80 from the euro and even if the European Union. --

the euro. Ringing back the great old days of the 70s. The other line of

fracture is immigration and controlling restrictions. Marine Le

Pen the National Front is the most radical. Francois Fillon also

presented a tough stand on reforming immigration laws. He would like to

select immigrants those who would help France, some kind of a points

system. The other groups, Emmanuel Macron all the Benoir Hamon camp, or

read on the left wing of Benoir Hamon do not care about that issue

that much. The four different groups more or less seem to be equally

large fighting it off for the presidency. It will be a very

fascinating and interesting election and knowing that we also have a

second round. What are you think the outcome will be, I know it is hard

to say at this point? The most likely thing is we are going to

probably have a showdown between the populace and probably it will be

Emmanuel Macron facing on Marine Le Pen Marine Le Pen and winning. We

shall keep a close eye on it. In the markets, Delta airlines was a fact

that by grounding flights. International flights were not

affect it and they say it is managing to fix the problem. Not

much action for markets. Most closed for the Chinese New Year but we do

have Japan and Australia open and they are not faring well at all a

lot to do with the reaction of the band put in place by US President

Donald Trump. I will seize on. --I will see you soon.

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