nica: my pleasure. anna: nica burns from nimax co-owner. coming up, while u.s. and chinese tech giants have surged this year, -- europe -- the same cannot be said for europe's players, so what can make the sector more attractive for investors? that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open" 43 minutes into tuesday's trading session on the 22nd of december. a bitoxx 600 up by 1%, so of a bounce back from yesterday, not making up for all the losses of yesterday but things looking a little more optimistic. the ftse 100 catching up a little. tech has been on a tear this year, with the nasdaq up more than 40% year to date. there is one region where gains in the sector have been perhaps more tepid, and that is europe. what needs to happen to make european tech companies global players? let's get an opinion on that. par-jorgen parson is a general partner at northzone, an early stage venture capital fund. thank you very much for joining us. i know that you think that capital and talent are all coming together and aligning in a

the national interscholastic cycling association or nica says student participation in mountain biking is up 12% this year in spite of the pandemic with 3 is leagues in 30 states. >> a lot of people across the country wanted to see this. we're seeing explosive growth. >> reporter: a typical race weekend turns into a social event for students and their families. this year, leagues have had to modify, holding time trials without spectators. but riders are still getting out on their bikes. >> on the actual trails, you can social distance a lot too. if you're passing people, usually it's just for a second or two. >> reporter: school mountain biking doesn't cut anyone from the team and students are not required to compete. >> it is for the most disciplined athlete who wants to qualify for varsity or be on podium, all the way to the other end where we have riders who simply want to get on their bike. >> reporter: nica has increased participation among girls and is looking to reach new riders in urban areas. organizers say you don't need an expensive bike and there is help from local scholars

today, another ringleader, gheorghe nica, and another lorry driver, eamonn harrison, were also found guilty. the criminals involved in this case made their money from misery. they knew what they were doing was dangerous, but they did it anyway. their 39 victims had boarded what they'd been promised was a vip service — among them two cousins, nguyen van hung and 18—year—old hoang van tiep. in vietnam, the teenager's father still prays for him daily. his mother told us they thought they were paying £10,000 for a safe route to england. translation: nobody knew that the journey to the uk was going to be like that. if they had known, nobody would have let their children risk their lives on such a dangerous journey. the older cousin's father thinks he was tricked. translation: i don't know what happened. but something must have changed in their plan. either that, or he was scammed. pham thi tra my died trying repeatedly to call her family. she'd only left vietnam a few days earlier, travelling via china. 0thers came through countries as diverse as russia, germany and portugal. for m

the jury at the old bailey also found george nica and eamonn harrison guilty of conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. here's our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. hello caller, is the patient breathing? hello, no, i'm a lorry driver, and ijust lifted a trailer from the port. one of the people smugglers on the phone to the 999 operator. there's immigrants in the back but they're all lying on the ground. tell me how many approximately how many patients. er, 25. but mo robinson was lying. police officers found the bodies of 39 vietnamese people. robinson pleaded guilty to manslaughter, as did his boss ronan hughes. today, another ringleader, gheorghe nica, and another lorry driver, eamonn harrison, were also found guilty. the criminals involved in this case made their money from misery. they knew what they were doing was dangerous, but they did it any way. their 39 victims had boarded what they had been promised was a vip service — among them two cousins, nguyen van hung and 18—year—old hoang van tiep. in vietnam, the teenager's father still prays for him daily. his

today, another ringleader, gheorghe nica, and another lorry driver, eamonn harrison, were also found guilty. the criminals involved in this case made their money from misery. they knew what they were doing was dangerous, but they did it anyway. their 39 victims had boarded what they'd been promised was a vip service — among them two cousins, nguyen van hung and 18—year—old hoang van tiep. in vietnam, the teenager's father still prays for him daily. his mother told us they thought they were paying £10,000 for a safe route to england. translation: nobody knew that the journey to the uk was going to be like that. if they had known, nobody would have let their children risk their lives on such a dangerous journey. the older cousin's father thinks he was tricked. translation: i don't know what happened. but something must have changed in their plan. either that, or he was scammed. pham thi tra my died trying repeatedly to call her family. she'd only left vietnam a few days earlier, travelling via china. 0thers came through countries as diverse as russia, germany and portugal. for m

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when she was 18 nica and her brother left their father's home and sought shelter with their biological mother in germany but she had no room for them. they turned to the city for help. hamburg was the city way. you could get some really good social help. so yes the mission 1st on the fire big task that is the people that actually. took me in so that's hamburg and then after that obviously i got i kind of got transferred to. ca told her she's home. the nuns there they took care of me for a couple of years and that's my relationship to hamburg mainly obviously because the i feel like they embraced me and they were people who were very nice to me when i 1st came here who were willing to. yet to show me a path and give me opportunities. which i might have not had when allison thank you. nic i learned german fast she got a high school diploma within 18 months and graduated from university with a degree in ethnology anthropology and african studies though she had to work all jobs to finance his studies she still found time to sing and play guitar. she was introduced to hip hop by german prod

issued its largest ever emergency funding appeal for 6400000000 dollars to reach 300000000 people or nica bennett is unicef's regional advisor of emergencies for west africa where from what west and central africa she says the pandemic has deepened the crisis in child health and education we see malnutrition increasing as families have less access to livelihoods and to income remittances from from wealthier countries are decreasing and so nearly 20 percent increase in malnutrition and then of course the education impact which is just been staggering as a result of co-pays before cough it we had in this region $44000000.00 children out of school and we went up $128.00 additional 1000000 children out of school as a result of colditz we're being deprived of learning for months already at a time to the extent possible we're trying to reach them through distance learning through internet radio television but but it has its limits especially in the poorest areas in crisis areas like displaced persons camps about 48 percent of children in this region don't have access to distance learning so we'

and west end theatre producer nica burns. thank you. martin, i think viewers will remember we spoke to you a couple of weeks ago, i think it was opening day of love letters with a lot of excitement about. how do you feel, knowing that the industry will have to be closed down again?m feel, knowing that the industry will have to be closed down again? it is very disappointing, obviously. but it was half expected. we took this on knowing that it was a risk, but it was something that had to be done. we tried the play out at windsor and it had good reviews. the pay and bill kenwright were brave enough to go ahead with it. the reviews have been incredible, but this is not a time for complaining. everybody is upset in one way or another and we are just another cog in the wheel of victims. martin, how have the rest of the class to take news? there are only two of us! jenny is as disappointed as i am. bill is disappointed, not to mention the entire theatre staff. but it is just the way of things. what are you going to do? we will be back at some

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the jury at the old bailey also found george neeka the jury at the old bailey also found george nica and eamonn harrison guilty of conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. here's our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. hello caller, is the patient breathing? hello, no, i'm a lorry driver, and ijust lifted a trailer from the port. one of the people smugglers on the phone to the 999 operator. there's immigrants in the back but they're all lying on the ground. tell me how many approximately how many patients. er, 25. but mo robinson was lying. police officers found the bodies of 39 vietnamese people. robinson pleaded guilty to manslaughter, as did his boss ronan hughes. today, another ringleader, gheorghe nica, and another lorry driver, eamonn harrison, were also found guilty. the criminals involved in this case made their money from misery. they knew what they were doing was dangerous, but they did it any way. their 39 victims had boarded what they had been promised was a vip service — among them two cousins, nguyen van hung and 18—year—old hoang van tiep. in vietnam, t