Germany's been struggling with a whole lot of strikes.

Good morning. I'm Leanna Byrne and thanks for tuning in to the Marketplace Morning Report

live from the BBC World Service. But first, some news just in. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against Chachi P.T.

That's the maker of open AI. And its chief executive, Sam Altman. He's accusing them of

abandoning the company's original mission to develop artificial

intelligence for the benefit of humanity, not profit.

Musk is one of the original co-founders of Open AI and we'll keep you updated on that one. But let's go to

Germany because Germany could be looking at six days worth of rail strikes. That's

the longest time they've ever stopped for and it's because pay negotiations between

Germany's national rail operator Deutschaban and its driver's union broke down

yesterday and it'll be the fourth time the drivers have gone on strike since November. The BBC's

Damian McGinnis is on this story. Hi Damien. Hi Damien, hello from

Berlin. Damien, what's going on there with all this industrial unrest? Well today is really the high point of a week of

strike action for local transport workers and what we're seeing really

across the country in every region in Germany apart from two Bonders-Lender, two regions, is essentially all trams, buses, local

trains, undergrounds are not running.

And that's over mostly working conditions, not so much pay, but trade unions want, they say they

want more holidays, they want fewer working hours, they want more breaks because they say working conditions are so tough that it's

very hard to get workers in because as you know Liana you know there's a labor

shortage in Germany and that does lead to some quite often you haven't got a bus line running because you haven't got drivers and that's one of the key problems that's what the trade unions are arguing.

On the other hand the situation in Germany is that in each region the local

transport networks are state-backed they're almost like private companies but own

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