:00:02. > :00:11.BBC World News. Now for the latest financial news in World Business
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:00:20. > :00:26.Will new handsets be able to turnaround the fortunes of the
:00:26. > :00:29.maker of the Blackberry, RIM? And a group of Nigerian farmers
:00:29. > :00:39.will find out today whether they've won a landmark ruling against oil
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:00:44. > :00:47.Welcome to World Business Report. I'm Sally Bundock. It has been a
:00:47. > :00:52.while since Blackberry has generated this much excitement, at
:00:52. > :00:55.least among tech watchers. The Canadian firm unveils the
:00:56. > :00:59.Blackberry 10, its newest operating system, and a new line of handsets
:00:59. > :01:02.to go with it. The manufacturer, Research in Motion, hopes it will
:01:02. > :01:12.help revive the company's fortunes. Michelle Fleury, who is in New York,
:01:12. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:30.In response to requests from his employees, he is giving staff the
:01:30. > :01:37.choice between De BlackBerry or smartphone rivals including Apple
:01:37. > :01:42.and Samsung. Most of my direct reports, who are gander Ben me, I
:01:42. > :01:50.have given them the option on whether they won two years the
:01:50. > :01:56.phone mac or at the BlackBerry. -- younger than me. What can it
:01:56. > :01:59.Research in Motion do to win back customers? It is counting on is
:01:59. > :02:03.much delayed Blackberry 10 operating system and new handsets
:02:03. > :02:09.to get consumers excited. In anticipation, it has added
:02:09. > :02:15.thousands of applications. BlackBerry unease this to succeed.
:02:15. > :02:21.If you look at it share price, this is the lower it hit in September.
:02:21. > :02:26.Since then, the share price has climbed even as high as $18 a share.
:02:26. > :02:34.It has been a tough couple of years. It suffered a series of surveys
:02:34. > :02:42.outages. And has seen its dominant position in the market does appear
:02:42. > :02:50.to Apple and Samsung, who have been quicker to adapt. This is the
:02:50. > :02:55.person behind a black beret's -- BlackBerry's comeback. He needs to
:02:55. > :03:02.see consumers have some level of excitement. The bar is reasonably
:03:02. > :03:08.low. We're not looking for it to overtake app or Samsung. If they
:03:08. > :03:12.achieve 5% market share, a home run. A far cry from its of glory days
:03:12. > :03:16.when BlackBerry nearly a cat -- candid for nearly half of all of US
:03:16. > :03:25.phone shipments. And for more on this story, go to
:03:25. > :03:28.A group of Nigerian farmers will hear today whether their case
:03:28. > :03:32.against Dutch oil giant Shell has been successful. They want the
:03:32. > :03:35.judges to force Shell to clean up the mess created by oil leaks in
:03:35. > :03:42.three villages, repair and maintain the defective pipelines, and pay
:03:42. > :03:46.Shell denies responsibility, saying the leaks are caused by sabotage
:03:46. > :03:50.and theft and that they do try to clean up the spills. Liesbet
:03:50. > :04:00.Enneking is from the University of Utrecht and has been studying the
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:04:01. > :04:07.Thank you. Who do you think will win this case? It is very difficult
:04:07. > :04:11.to predict fire a number of reasons. First of all, we are not sure what
:04:11. > :04:17.type of bullying be caught will issue today. It maybe the final
:04:17. > :04:23.rolling or it maybe an interloping rolling, asking for a further
:04:23. > :04:27.briefings on -- on certain issues. This is the first case of its type
:04:27. > :04:31.that has been brought in front of a thatched court. We have seen
:04:31. > :04:39.similar cases in other countries. But we have seen very few Rawlings
:04:40. > :04:45.on the merits. What I can say is that the plane trees maybe in a
:04:45. > :04:49.slight disadvantage at this point in time. -- plaintiffs. The court
:04:49. > :04:55.has refused their request for disclosures of certain documents by
:04:55. > :05:01.Nick Royal Dutch Shell. The court may say they have not substantially
:05:01. > :05:07.-- have not proved their claims. But we really do not know at this
:05:07. > :05:13.point. We will have to wait and see. It is being closely watched.
:05:13. > :05:23.Everybody is saying it was set a precedent. Why is it you need?
:05:23. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:29.are seeing a worldwide trend to some mad types of cases. -- some LR.
:05:29. > :05:34.-- similar. We have seen many been brought in the US, and in the UK.
:05:34. > :05:43.This is the first case of its type to be have -- to have been brought
:05:43. > :05:47.in front of a court in Holland. Yesterday, Beijing was engulfed by
:05:47. > :05:51.pollution more than 20 times higher than world safety levels. That is
:05:51. > :05:53.the second time in two weeks. The thick smog forced airlines to
:05:53. > :05:58.cancel flights and prompted government warnings for residents
:05:58. > :06:01.to stay indoors. The smog is putting a dampener on the yearly
:06:01. > :06:04.spring rush ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday which officially
:06:04. > :06:14.begins next Saturday. Our China correspondent joins me now from
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:06:18. > :06:25.What is it like today? Take a look behind me. This is the view out of
:06:25. > :06:30.a window at the neck. Not good. It is pretty salty. Not quite as bad
:06:30. > :06:38.as yesterday. You cannot see through it. Yesterday, it was even
:06:38. > :06:45.worse. The level of pollution here is one third lower Benn yesterday.
:06:45. > :06:48.The government says the air quality reading is heavily polluted. The
:06:48. > :06:55.American embassy has its own monitoring. It usually comes out
:06:55. > :07:01.higher. They say it is hazarded. Old people, children, they are all
:07:01. > :07:07.advice to stay indoors. Everyone else is told only to go outside but
:07:07. > :07:14.did not exercise. And no-one with any heart condition, respiratory
:07:14. > :07:20.condition, should be done outside either. This is about 15 times the
:07:20. > :07:25.daily exposure levels. A couple of weeks ago, it was 40 times that.
:07:25. > :07:32.This does not feel too bad compared to what it has been. Good job you
:07:32. > :07:40.are indoors. Tower asked the impact this has had. Flights had to be
:07:40. > :07:46.grounded. -- tell us about the impact. The chapel problems
:07:46. > :07:51.yesterday it affected not just Beijing, it affected a huge part of
:07:51. > :07:57.north-east China. The government said an area about twice the size
:07:57. > :08:03.of France was affected by this. No wind conditions. The pollution was
:08:03. > :08:08.building up. This comes from power plants, cold power, industrial
:08:08. > :08:11.emissions, a vehicle emissions. Yesterday, they are were several
:08:11. > :08:18.dozen flights delayed. There are more problems at the airport this
:08:18. > :08:24.morning. In other cities, it was worse. 100 flights were cancelled
:08:24. > :08:28.in another city. This is happening when China is warming up to the
:08:28. > :08:38.spring holiday. It could cause some serious problems, if it continues.
:08:38. > :08:42.Thank you. The world's biggest online retailer has announced a
:08:42. > :08:45.rise in sales. Amazon revenues went up by 22% in the last three months
:08:45. > :08:48.of 2012. Strong sales of more profitable products like e-books
:08:48. > :08:58.and online movies went down well with investors. But net profit
:08:58. > :09:00.
:09:00. > :09:03.On to another taxing issue - this time in the world of fashion. The
:09:03. > :09:11.trial of design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana get's underway
:09:11. > :09:18.in Milan. They are accused of evading more
:09:18. > :09:21.than 400 million euros in tax. The trial coincides with prime
:09:21. > :09:31.minister's Mario Monti's war on tax evasion as he tries to restore
:09:31. > :09:39.