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are still widely used in some fields. Now, all the latest | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
financial news. Bent out of shape. Apple receives a storm of complaints | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
about its fragile flagship phone. And we go inside the world's first | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
environmentally friendly mosque. Welcome to World Business Report. In | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
a moment, Spain begins its trade visit to China, but first, the | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
launch of the iPhone 6 is threatening to turn into a public | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
relations disaster. Apple was busy hailing its best ever weekend of | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
sales when a spate of complaint arose on social media that the new | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
flagship iPhone 6 can easily be bent if it is put into a trouser pocket. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
This video has been watched more than 10 million times on YouTube. It | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
shows how apparently fragile that devices. It is going to cost me more | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
money if it does break. I would rather go for a safer option. The | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
back pocket is usually where it goes. You cannot really sing down | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
with it in the front pocket. `` sits down. Is it bends, that is not a | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
good idea. Apple has also had to withdraw a software update to its | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
iOS8, after it prevented some phones from being able to make calls. What | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
does it all mean? How worried should Apple be by this? Will it put people | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
off buying the iPhone 6? You have to remember that if you look at the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
historical context of every single major Apple product launch, there is | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
usually a storm of complaints from people when they realise it is not | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
perfect. This is not to say that Apple is not misfiring. It is. This | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
software update especially is not typical of Apple. We should also | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
note that Microsoft Windows issued a patch five weeks ago and withdrew it | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
because it was causing some problems on Windows PCs. There is a common | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
case of software not getting as many headlines with Microsoft as it does | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
with Apple. Is it simply that Apple is under more scrutiny because we | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
all talk about it? Some would say that they also have a big fanfare | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
for big launches like this, so if criticism is due in certain cases | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
like this, they have to take it. A few years ago, with one model of the | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
iPhone, when that came out, there were complaints about a lack of | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
wireless coverage. It turned out that the bars that indicated the | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
strength of the wireless signal were not being displayed properly. Apple | :03:35. | :03:47. | |
invited the media into their testing facilities to show how much work had | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
gone into it and eventually the controversy died down. What normally | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
happens is that Apple jumps right on top of the case, studies the problem | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
and then offers a six or some guidance about what to do. `` offers | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
a solution. As for the software update, we have a guide now website | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
right now. Now to the economic impact of climate change. The Gulf | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
countries are among the worst polluters in the world, but now, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Dubai is trying to raise awareness of the problem by combining green | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
technology with religion in the region's first environmentally | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
friendly mosque. Reclaimed land, the tallest building on earth and the | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
busiest airport in the world. Dubai is rarely noted for its ecological | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
credentials but could that be about to change with this? The new mosque | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
was funded by a private donation. It can house up to 3500 worshippers. It | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
is the first ever built to meet the US Green building Council's | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
guidelines. This carpet is a low emitting type. The resident engineer | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
took us on a tour. Treated water is used for the irrigation system, for | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
the landscaping. The consultants behind this mosque say they have cut | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
down on the water needed by 50% and energy by 25% after the city's | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
endowment committee insisted on a green element to settle climate | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
fears. What we have been doing for the past 100 years, eventually, we | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
have robbed our climate. It was not like this 100 years ago. It all | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
comes back to us and what we have done to get where we are and from | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
this point onward, what we can do to stop it, reduce it or minimise it. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
The choice of a Moscow to prevent environmental consciousness is | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
particularly potent in this part of the world. `` the choice of a | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
mosque. Religion is embedded in the lives of people. This is being | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
watched keenly in Saudi Arabia, which has already sent a team of | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
engineers here to see how it is done. Is this a more environmentally | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
friendly Dubai responding to climate change? This is the first time in | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
the history of the Middle East that the word of sustainability is spread | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
through a place of worship and it is likely that it will reach the | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
grassroots. Dubai's population is expected to rise 5% this year, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
meaning more carbon dioxide emitting buildings. The message will have to | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
spread fast. Late on Wednesday, the Spanish prime | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
minister arrived in China for a three`day visit. Trade and tourism | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
will be high on the agenda. China is Spain's largest trading partner | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
outside of the EU. More than 250,000 Chinese people made the journey to | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Spain in 2013. Mariano Rajoy has been touting Spain as a land of | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
opportunity for Chinese businesses with his economic reforms. Thank you | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
for joining us. There is a tendency for us to look at China as a place | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
of plenty of opportunity, plenty of money, but in this case, what does | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Spain wants? Spain is going there for the usual reasons. A few years | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
ago, that would be to ask the Chinese to buy Spanish government | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
bonds. Now, that crisis is over and they are looking at direct | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
investment into Spain by China, which has been a large scale by | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
other assets already in Portugal. They are also looking for | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
opportunities there might be for Spain to do export business in | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
China. If you look at Europe, there is a very different kind of | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
economy. There is a tendency to look at Europe as one trading block. That | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
is critical. And if I was the Chinese looking where I wanted to | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
invest in Europe, Spain looks much more attractive as a proposition. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Looking at Eastern Europe, Germany and Austria in particular, those are | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
really beginning to suffer the effects of the Russian sanctions | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
slowdown. Austrian banks are in trouble because of their exposure. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
German exports and business confidence have started to slide. | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
France is much to connected to the German economy and in Italy, we have | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
seen very little reform. In Spain, we have seen very `` a great deal of | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
reform. Wages have gone down, unemployment is high, meaning there | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
are lots of workers to be recruited into new businesses. Should Spain be | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
worried about a slowdown in China? The state of the Chinese economy is | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
often quoted as the major reason for a slide in global commodities but | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
what is happening is a transformation between an export led | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
economy into a consumption led economy. That is changing the demand | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
that China has. China is the much more selective in what it invests in | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
now. Thank you. Time to have a look at the market figures. Asian stocks | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
fell slightly on Thursday, despite an initial rebound on Wall Street. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
That Wall Street optimism was fuelled by better than expected US | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
housing data. That's all of the business. See you soon for the | :10:01. | :10:15. | |
newspaper review. It has been a month since the | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
missing schoolgirl Alex Cross was last seen. Today, the police will | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
carry out a reconstruction of her movements before her disappearance | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
as part of a renewed appeal. Her family says | :10:32. | :10:32. |