:00:01. > :00:11.off. The hospital has already been criticised by Human Rights Watch. -
:00:11. > :00:22.
:00:23. > :00:27.Time there will Business Report. -- time for World Business Report.
:00:27. > :00:37.Barack Obama's biggest headache. Payroll numbers may show America's
:00:37. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:53.jobless rate rose to 8.2% in September. Samsung expects to post
:00:53. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :01:04.record profits. TV screens 16 times sharper make their debut at Japan's
:01:04. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:15.Advanced Technology Fair. Headaches for Barack Obama as he
:01:15. > :01:18.recovers from the mauling he received on the economy from Mitt
:01:18. > :01:28.Romney. He may have more to ponder because pay roll numbers are
:01:28. > :01:31.expected to show that America's in September, having fallen to 8.1%
:01:31. > :01:35.in August. It would be the 44 straight month in which
:01:35. > :01:40.unemployment has top 8% despite government attempts to help create
:01:40. > :01:49.jobs. More than 23 million Americans are either unemployed,
:01:49. > :01:55.stuck in part-time jobs or have given up looking altogether.
:01:55. > :01:59.Last year, Alison was one of the 8% of Americans out of work. Despite
:01:59. > :02:06.having a college degree and years of experience, she struggled to
:02:06. > :02:12.find a job. This new restaurant in Manhattan opened up and offered her
:02:12. > :02:16.a job. The most discouraging thing you can do is go to an open call
:02:16. > :02:21.because there will be around 200 people waiting outside a restaurant
:02:21. > :02:26.to interview for two or three jobs. It is so hard to stand out, even if
:02:26. > :02:30.you have a great resonate. She is one of the 50 staff taken on by the
:02:30. > :02:36.restaurant open -- restaurant owner. Thanks to a loan from the
:02:36. > :02:41.government last year, he has been able to buy and renovate a second
:02:41. > :02:45.property, creating new jobs. for the small business jobs at and
:02:45. > :02:52.the loans given to us, this restaurant would not exist. This
:02:52. > :02:57.building would be vacant and derelict, not contributing to
:02:57. > :03:02.society or employing people. It would be an I saw. That made the
:03:02. > :03:06.difference between this project happening or never existed. Despite
:03:06. > :03:10.success stories like this, numerous attempts by the government to kick-
:03:10. > :03:16.start the economy have failed to dent the stubbornly high jobless
:03:16. > :03:21.rate. It has been above 8% for 43 consecutive months.
:03:21. > :03:25.That bigger is being watched more closely than ever as a race -- the
:03:25. > :03:29.race for the White House enters its final weeks. Their president has
:03:29. > :03:33.ever been re-elected with unemployment so high, and optimism
:03:33. > :03:38.in the labour market so low. Barack Obama's rivals are keen to point
:03:38. > :03:48.out that for every person who found a job last month, ball gave up
:03:48. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:55.looking altogether. -- Fulham. Economists say that is because
:03:55. > :04:05.lawmakers can't agree on a tax and spending goal. I'm not expecting
:04:05. > :04:05.
:04:05. > :04:13.that uncertainty to be lifted until we reach that goal. At the
:04:13. > :04:17.restaurant, there are plans to hire more staff. That relies on
:04:17. > :04:26.Americans' feeling better about the economy and more willing to spend.
:04:26. > :04:30.Until then, new jobs will be hard to come by.
:04:30. > :04:34.Samsung has done it again, posting a fourth straight quarter of record
:04:34. > :04:44.profits. That puts the electronics giant on course for its best year
:04:44. > :04:48.
:04:49. > :04:58.ever. Tell us the numbers and why Samsung's record run it may be
:04:58. > :05:03.drying up soon? Let me start with the numbers. They are quite
:05:03. > :05:08.impressive. Samsung things it has made more than $7 billion in the
:05:08. > :05:12.three months to September - nearly double last year's figures, and
:05:12. > :05:20.much better than what analysts had been expecting. That is thanks to
:05:20. > :05:25.strong sales of its popular smartphones. Some analysts say this
:05:25. > :05:31.kind of -- these kinds of strong sales mind not be sustainable. The
:05:31. > :05:36.company has been in an ongoing legal battle with Apple. It is
:05:36. > :05:41.accusing Samsung of violating some of its patents. In California, the
:05:41. > :05:47.court ruled in favour of apple and ordered Samsung to pay more than $1
:05:47. > :05:51.billion in damages. While Samsung is asking for a retrial, analysts
:05:51. > :06:01.say that these decisions could start soon to affect its
:06:01. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:13.performance. For today, it is a very strong result. Thank you.
:06:14. > :06:18.The eurozone. In Portugal, the battle over austerity rages on. The
:06:18. > :06:24.Prime Minister and his government saw off a no confidence motion in
:06:24. > :06:30.parliament on Thursday. They argue that a failure to stick to
:06:30. > :06:34.austerity measures would mean Portugal leaving the euro. The
:06:34. > :06:40.country's railways are paralysed by a strike from train drivers
:06:40. > :06:44.demanding more money. The austerity drive there is already pushing
:06:44. > :06:50.Portugal into the worst recession since the 1970s. More belt-
:06:50. > :06:57.tightening will be needed to meet the terms of its 78 billion euro
:06:57. > :07:02.bail out. We have joined by our correspondent.
:07:02. > :07:09.It is a public holiday today - one of the public holidays that will be
:07:09. > :07:14.cut next year. There has been at a lot of focus on Greece and Spain in
:07:14. > :07:23.the past few weeks. Update us on Portugal. There has been a lot
:07:23. > :07:32.happening here. Measures announced this week, above all, increases in
:07:32. > :07:37.income tax. A former minister of the Prime Minister's own party has
:07:37. > :07:46.called this armed robbery. An increase of 2% on average on
:07:47. > :07:53.incomes. And an extra 4% next year. The government has found that its
:07:53. > :08:03.deficit is going to be wider than expected. It will have to claw back
:08:03. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:17.money in a variety of ways. We do know enormous increases in taxes.
:08:17. > :08:21.Eurozone finance ministers are expected to expected toit next week.
:08:21. > :08:31.The question is whether the Portuguese people will approve it.
:08:31. > :08:36.More belt-tightening. We will leave it there.
:08:36. > :08:43.Major's biggest tech More
:08:43. > :08:51.More than 600 companies are attending the combined exhibition
:08:51. > :08:58.of advanced technologies. This is a great place for big
:08:58. > :09:04.Japanese technology companies to show off their wares. What struck
:09:04. > :09:11.me is that there is almost the complete absence of any 3D TV sets,
:09:11. > :09:15.apart from at the Sony stand. It is almost as if the industry is
:09:15. > :09:25.holding its hands up and saying it does not quite work in the home
:09:25. > :09:25.
:09:26. > :09:35.environment. They are pushing super high-definition televisions. A
:09:36. > :09:37.
:09:37. > :09:42.really crisp and a massive experience is a fed. Japan is in
:09:42. > :09:52.the middle of an energy crisis. Things like energy monitoring units
:09:52. > :09:53.
:09:53. > :09:57.and fuel cells are expected to become popular. Summer quirky
:09:57. > :10:06.concepts doing the round -- rounds also. A pair of the video
:10:06. > :10:11.conferencing losses. Five cameras are built in. The images are sent
:10:11. > :10:17.to a server and sent to the recipient. Some of these concepts
:10:17. > :10:20.are years away and others will drawing board. It depends on