02/12/2015 World Business Report


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Now for the latest business news in World Business Report.

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Choking off the biggest source of money.

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An estimated $40 million a month for the militant group IS.

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The question is, can you increase strikes like these here on oil the

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fields without doing permanent long lasting damage to those fields?

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And talk about being generous, Facebook founder

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and his wife pledge to their new baby daughter to give away 99%

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We have lots going on. Give me eight minutes and I will give you

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fascinating stuff. Pressure is mounting to choke

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off the biggest source of revenue for the militant IS group

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- that is of course oil. The US says it's the best

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funded terrorist organisation Today, the British Parliament

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is due to vote on whether it too The US estimates oil revenue

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generates about $40 million Jihadists control swaths

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of territory in Syria and Iraq It is estimated one third of ISIS'

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oil revenue comes from fields But so far security forces have

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taken care not to do irreversible damage to the oil sites so that they

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can be used again in the future. So, now, the new goal

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of the coalition forces is to knock out specific installations

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for six months to a year. Neil Atkinson, head of analysis

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at Lloyd's List Intelligence. Great to have you. Thank you for

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coming in. Let's start with that - can you knock out part of an oil

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field for six months to a year? It is difficult to do it from the air.

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In your headlines, you are referring to special forces of some kind. They

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may achieve it. By doing it by bombing it is hard to see how to be

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so specific and targeted. Talking about keeping the facilities

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available and ready for some time when IS forces have been removed

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from those areas, and what normality can be returned is important,

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because without those facilities providing fuel, normal life cannot

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function. It is a difficult dilemma. They can do it if they use special

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forces as opposed to bombing. Boots on the ground kind of situation. Can

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I ask you, we are looking at bombing pictures, I am just a layman, but we

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have seen images of miles of trucks carrying oil. Would you not target

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distribution or even those who are buying stuff? One of the mysteries,

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it is no secret that hundreds of trucks literally sit in a line

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waiting to be loaded with fuel, moving off to around the Middle

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East, not just Syria and Iraq. It does seem strange that even more

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action has not been taken against those convoys because ultimately the

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refineries, the oil producing fields, where crude oil is turned

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into products, into something usable, that is OK. The fuel is no

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use if it is sitting in a refinery. It has to move around. If you can

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see it being moved around in trucks, because there are no pipelines, they

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not near the coast, so it is not moving on ships, if you can see the

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trucks from the air, sometimes they are almost literally miles long,

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waiting to be loaded, and once loaded they move along, then they

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are sitting ducks. Unfortunately, time is short, but we appreciate

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your time and we will keep across it, as I know you will.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have

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pledged to give away the vast majority of their shares

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They made the announcement in a letter to their new daughter

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Max - posted on Facebook - saying they wanted to make the world a

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The couple say they will give away 99% of their shares to causes

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which advance human potential and promote equality.

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At the moment that share value equates to about $45 billion.

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The couple say they'll give more details on the donation when they

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The BBC's Dave Lee is in San Francisco.

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Our very own. Good to see you. We are waiting for more information.

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What do we know so far in terms of how they plan to give it away. It is

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under some trust, I think. And what sort of period are we talking about?

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While, they say they're going to put money into this initiative, the

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initiative for the rest of their lifetime -- well. They will get

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around $1 billion a year. What they plan to do is put money into

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education, into human advancement - like you have mentioned - and

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crucially in the press release they want to invest in taking part in

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policy debate. That sounds like lobbying. A close I will be on what

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this charitable organisation - it is not a charity but a company - what

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they're supposed organisation will do in the real world -- eye.

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Everyone can agree that $45 billion as it stands right now is surely an

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extremely big gesture. So, the ambition from them to give this

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money is admirable, at least. You mentioned, it is a big number. How

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does it stack up against others, what comes to mind is of course Bill

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Gates of Microsoft. I wonder if it pressures others to do something

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similar? I think that is not bad if it is the case. We are seeing an

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interesting trend of tech millionaires and billionaires not

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waiting until they are retired. Warren buffet, when congratulating

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Mark Zuckerberg on his daughter's birth and this initiative, he said

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he thinks 30 is the new 70 when it comes to giving away money. Don't

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wait until you are dead and retired but donate your money when you are

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young enough to see it put to good use. Indeed. I have two things to

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state - I wonder if they have heard of my foundation, we could always

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use a little bit. And if I was the kid, Max, when I was older, I would

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be a little bit angry at them. Great stuff, speak to you soon. Nice palm

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tree! In other news: New data

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from Australia shows the economy grew 0.9%

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in the three months to September. That's more than expected and

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it's all down to rising exports. Despite a slowdown in its biggest

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trading partner, China, and falling commodity prices, exports rose

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by 4.6% in the quarter. A US court has ordered that the Bank

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of China pay a fine $50,000 each day for refusing

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to turn over information on Chinese customers accused

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of selling fake luxury goods. Five corporate sponsors of Fifa have

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called for oversight. They have been involved in allegations of

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corruption since authorities indicted officials over summer. The

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letter was sent from Adidas, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and

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Budweiser. A US court has ordered that the Bank

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of China pay a fine $50,000 each day for refusing

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to turn over information on Chinese customers accused

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of selling fake luxury goods. The bank has been held

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in contempt of court and will have to start paying

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the daily penalty from next week. The Bank of China is planning to

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appeal the order and the fine. As part of the BBC's 100 Women

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series, we've been meeting young businesswomen, profiling 30

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women from around the world. Melanie Goldsmith's alcoholic sweets

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are now sold in high end London stores after she made them

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for a dating event. Her advice for would-be

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entrepreneurs is to make sure people are willing to buy into your idea

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and that consumers are willing to My biggest moment of joy was higher

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in our first full-time employee. When someone gets it, and they've

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come out of nowhere, you know, they're not a family member of

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anything, it is a really, really NICE. We make deconstructed edible

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cocktails, which we call cocktail pastilles. There is no success is so

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encompassing on who's behind it. My name's Melanie Goldsmith, I'm 26

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years old and I'm at the director of Smith and Sinclair. -- and I'm the

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direct. I will be back to look at some of

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the papers from around the world -- director. Ta

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