amusing to be here to listen to what they have to say. i think that the revision by itself will have no practical effect. and of course dante dantes memory does not need this. other florence may never officially clear dante, his name, the supreme poet, if he's known, will continue to draw visitors here. inspiring them for years to come. adam rainy al jazeera florence. ah, look in the headlines now and a sci fi between israel mass and allied palestinian groups has brought some com to garza since taking effect in the early hours of friday. this was the scene in garza where many people have been able to return to some sort of daily routine over the past 11 days. they've been spending most of the evening's sheltering in doors, of course, from over night as strikes hurry force it is that i don't know quite what i

expected on my way down here, but it wasn't really. this is largely pretty jubilant. victory celebration she needed also an opportunity to get out and have what many people here at willing a pe stained aid. and so you've seen people walking around, dressed up, going up and down the promenade by the beach, enjoying themselves. some going along in convoys waving palestinian and other flags playing music. and so celebrating this victory that chanting about jerusalem, they are out of the homes with a sense of relief and liberty. but there were most gun machines at the alex i'm most compelled and occupied east jerusalem today. mirroring events from 2 weeks ago which triggered the conflict. israeli security forces fights don grenades towards worshippers, and also the confrontations between palestinian protest as an israeli forces near

the illegal settlement of bait al close to mala. the red crescent as a total of $82.00 palestinians have been injured in the west bank and jerusalem. want to bring you some developments from malaysia now, the countries and outs that will tighten corona virus restrictions further as case numbers and deaths continue to rise. it reported nearly 6 and a half 1000 new cases on friday, after high of 6800 on thursday. another 59 deaths have also been confirmed. laser is 2 weeks into a 4 week national shut down. and the united nations, as is alarmed by the violence taking place in northwest and me and mol, thousands of people have been displaced in chin states after violence between security forces and residents. the un called on the military to urgently take all necessary measures and precautions to spend a 1000000 life and infrastructure fit for myself and the team here in london. i'll see you tomorrow. counting the cost is next is a very bleak picture for

a lot of americans out there. white supremacy. in fact, all of your putting more money into the hands of some workers taking money out of the hands of other workers. everyone goes to their campus and it becomes the us versus down. this is a deal about constraining a nuclear program. the bottom line off the big question. oh, now 20. me lose . hello, i'm sammy's a than this is counting the cost. so now just look at the world of business and economics this week. the factory of the world has a 4 labor problem, china's in time and to millions of weavers has western companies scrambling one wind supply chain. but they dragging their feet as they faced the bank clash from bay chain. also this week, a trillion plus and losses and millions of jobs hasn't been easy to the tourism industry and find out if one a recovery is chief executive of

a business travel platform that's raising millions for expansion and aging populations. falling birthrights and fewest skilled workers industries. are looking into the use of robotics. we looked at how robots could change the construction industry, the china's 3 decades march to become the factory of the world. it's been pretty remarkable. it's listed millions out of poverty and millions more into the middle class. but on the president cheating ping, china has a human rights problem. invest in pricing corporations that do business with china to verify supply chains for the use of force labor, the u. s. and e. you have impose sanctions on beijing for its treatment of weavers . but up to 2000000 have been placed in internment camps in the western region of she hang. many has been forced to retrain and sent to work in factories and cotton

fields. the abuses don't stop their entire graveyards, mosques and historical science have been bulldozed. women have been forcibly sterilized, and children taken away from parents, the u. s. coals, china's actions genocide dance, making it more difficult for some to continue to do business. take hannah's and more. and so as it's better known in the high street, h and m of the pledging not to use cotton from she jang, it faced a bank clash in china from the government and consumers, barbary nike, adidas, some of the other western brands hit by consumer boy costs the united states ban the impulse of cotton and tomato products in january. it's estimated the u. s. imported $9000000000.00 of cotton products and $10000000.00 of tomatoes last year. supply chains for solar panels are also clustered in the region, raising concerns among investors about for labor in facts,

half the world's raw materials to make. so the panels comes from chin. jang, further complicating the world's move away from fossil fuels. reports compiled by the german parliament, concludes the country's new supply chain law were likely main. german companies have to withdraw from chin jang and related supply chains. otherwise they face fines or even criminal prosecution. obey ging deny is all accusations of abuse and is prepared to lose exports as china's consumers stop spending more money at home. joining us via skype from new york now as anita dart director, investor alliance for human rights. good to have you with us. so pretty much outsiders, whether they did plots, or journalist or human rights activists that they bought from she jang, right to how? sure are we of these reports of full flavor. human rights groups have done

well, a journalist done interviews of people, phone is area in china on the regions that happened there and have to bite the viber to tell us what has happened. and so the batteries or being in prison. in addition to that, there are journalists and other visitors to this area in 2017, and 18 actually what, what has happened in this region. so from that perspective, my client is that the expert reports in the research coming out of been owned by the personal experiences. there's also some pretty disturbing mind blowing reports about wiggers being sold on internet sites, the factories across the country. i mean, how well documented are these reports from our discussions that we're in such

a lot of weakness, human rights. so investor lives, part of a politician of about 300 different organizations, 7070. so when we speak them, they have family and relatives, and some of them were actually working in the summer class. so you know, my perspective is these accounts, you know, i definitely to rely on at least have conversations about right. so you're fairly disturbed in taking them seriously. the us introduce a band on cotton. they seem to be disturbed by these sorts of reports to. but despite that, we still seen exports double in the 1st quarter of 2021. why is that? what's happening is puzzling to me, but i, i feel that at this point of time, a lot of companies just don't have

a good understanding of their supply chain. they don't have a good understanding of what is going on in the region. you know, it is really just over the last year or more so my, my view is that companies are starting to know she's starting to find out more about their why cheese and the action. so my hope is that this trend of trade increase of this region will at least stole a little bit. there are various things that are important in region. a lot of the attention has been related to cotton and apparel products, but there are lots of other role materials so long may be apparent. i don't believe other for example report just came out earlier this week

relating to the solar sector and the still on and it. ringback believe that the region that we're speaking week or region the global supply. so is that reports coming out right now? i don't eat the relevant industry has reacted to that. but i need to isn't just down to companies, perhaps not being fully aware of their supply chains. all is the incl in the trend that you mention of trade, the result of a pay off of the chinese backlash. i mean, we've seen some companies scrubbed language from their websites related to, you know, commitments on avoiding force, labor and so on and so forth. is that the bank clashed, driving the trend. the other way. my hope is that it isn't. it's while we were very troubled by that response like companies to the backlash,

we still see the majority of the company based on that particular backlash. that car has g logics. that still remains issues related for your organization has $160.00 institutional investors in its membership, right? you represent somebody might 5 trillion dollars in assets on the management wise. this issue becoming so important. do you think to investors invest in this that they don't stand the law from the companies that you're invested in? they understand that same money would be invested in the company, but maybe in human rights, it's something that they need to address. they want to ensure that where their investment needs it goes into businesses and, and with the trend, as we can see in the capital markets was stock and companies that dress up, s,

g risks, environmental social and governance risk. these are continue to be more and more investment at the investment community, how compromised companies that manufacture their goods in china, to particular issues of false labor and shins, yang you know whether we're talking about apples 70. 0 wow, way or dallow? h p o x cetera. is it possible to, to know how compromised they are with, shall we call it the thing young issue. all companies have the responsibility to understand a supply chain and that will be one of the things that has been quite alarming. actually, conversations, companies of the lack of understanding of their supply chain is really quite surprising. so i will say that need to understand why we need to keep that in human rights due diligence, understand where and how the li,

for in their respective fact he's and supply facilities are, you know, where are they coming from? from government mandate programs, other subsidies that suppliers from the chinese government in order to support systems that are placed in progressive regions. like all right, thanks so much janita. good talking to you know great thanks. thanks for having me on the news. the tourism industry has been the hardest hit by the pandemic due to travel restrictions, according to the united nations world tourism organization. there were 1000000000 few international arrivals in 2020. well that translates into a 74 percent slump from the previous year, making it the worst year on record. this compares with the 4 percent decline recorded during the 2009 global economic crisis. the collapse and international

travel represents an estimated loss of $1.00 trillion dollars. the next port revenues more than 11 times the last recorded during the 2009 global economic crisis. the crisis has put between a 10120000000 direct tourism jobs at risk. many of them in small and medium sized enterprises. when against that backdrop, one business traveler platform is flourishing travel. pogue just raised $160000000.00 in its latest round of funding. i'm delighted to say returning to the show is ivy. my co founder and ceo of travel. welcome back ivy. the last time you're on counting the cost you're talking to us about travel car. busy doors ahead of the time, but when it was an lamented 2020 those still a hard year while your investors so confidence in a recovery. yeah,

thank you. $500.00 on there and was happy to be. ready here the investors have seen 2 things that are important. i think the 1st one is that one of the clear understanding that we have up to 2020 is that the meeting the matter happen in person? and we see it as we want to go back to meeting our friends and families going holiday zoom. but really holidays and it's true also for business meetings, do business relationships and trust that we create by meeting other people in person. so i think 2020, i'm just showing that deep truth about how we humans interact and trust each other . this combined with the fact that we grew in 2020 chopper and double in size in terms of customer base in 2020, we didn't our team which is a very unique, an industry we just kept going. we kept building a product and kept providing great service for customers,

so we actually growing doubling more size in 2020. so these 2 factors combined, i think that many investors but doesn't that mean? i mean, if people are meeting life, especially business travelers are meeting less face to face. doesn't that translate into or should translate into less business for you? yeah, i mean our size relative to the market is still talking about the huge market. 1.5 trillion r globally and then make, and i'm very confident that it goes back to this number in the next 2 years. so we're talking about a huge market and our sizes are granted to the market was the 1st model before the funding. so we have a lot of space to grow directed we acquired, they said many customers. and in fact, if you look at the recovery now, however, what are you doing differently from everybody else who's losing money? we have a great products. i think it's a key. you know, using technology instead of only relying on human provided service,

traditional legacy travel agents used to do the fact that we are a technology company that we scale with technology and people i think helps a lot in our, in our numbers. and also this is what customers are looking for, right? so kind of a perfect storm of great product meets demand. you still need to travel even though you know, a lot of essential trips are happening. and the travelers are looking for solution and they're finding topic right. and we see some airlines dropping the price of business class travel. clearly they're not so sure. corporations are going to be rushing back to in person meetings anytime soon. do you agree with that? out? look, i don't, i think that some of the meetings and speaking with our customers, we start to very globally, more than 4000 companies, mostly in the us and europe. and we're sticking with our customers. they tell us

maybe 2030 percent, which our budget is going to basically be thomas limiting you know, it is unnecessary full day trips just for 30 minutes. transaction meetings. i don't see an issue for this kind of meetings to rain or wherever are the same time. we have a new kind of trips that are emerging, for example, some distributed remote teams. that's the transitive increasing. we see the person with a customer suddenly have people never needed to travel like something, one of our product managers base to 3 hours away from head office or even in another country. and they need to travel to meet with our team. to john to brainstorm, to create something together. this kind of meant to house up and in person. so it compensates for 2030 percent. that will hopefully i think net. net, we're talking about the industry that we're going to keep growing years to come out . and you mentioned the market, then us domestic bookings that almost back to pre coven levels. why is the

us market a little different? shall we say, from the international flights market? our number is actually better than that because we are growing company, customer profit. we actually today, double the size in u. s. domestic travel. when we were in 2900, say mark lights, we are doubling our size and revenue. compared to other moments, are we still in the middle of crisis? the u. s. a different because of the vaccination and the fact that the countries big by been talking about the single country where traditionally got less restriction to move in within the same state between states. and you combined with a great nation project. and this is what the result looks like, right? and i think very soon it was here, 7 years whereabouts initially spot even pick it up. and hopefully we should also see according to between the you can do something about very soon. so i think it's all about the vaccination. when though, let me get you to try and look in your crystal ball for us. when do we think

international, the international flights market is going to be back to almost free covey levels? so i think for traffic it's already happening globally, i think. and for the interest, you know, the whole nation is the key. and then also government isn't the restriction, but it seems to be sequence 1st that there anything else is picture my crystal bodies of yours. but i would say around the summer after the summer, we start seeing more and more international trauma. that's some, a isn't too far away. it's nice to have a bit of optimism on the show, isn't it? will we still have travel car doors and for how long do you think? we think that the situation of uncertainty is going to stay with us for a while, which is why we acquired a company actually. and now we have a product saved. it provides the restriction in real time to our customers. so you know, if you needed that, if you need current d n, if you need to talk soon,

certificate etc. and this ones are changing. ok, for example, that are changing almost on a daily basis when countries and amber countries and all the stuff. so we are, are one of our mission is to provide this information to our customers in real time . because because of what i do, and i think there's what it is going to stay with us for a while, which is also why we need flexibility and the ability to change the trips, cancel them without a big fan of the possible. and these 2 requirements to get information assessed information real time are going to stay with us live. my prediction is more than 12 model juice. i have it's been good talking to thanks so much. thank you very much. china sensors for 2011 to 2020 showed the population was growing at its lowest rate in decades. birth fell to just 12000000 last year. that's the lowest figure. since the early 19 sixties and china was emerging from a catastrophic famine. well across the pacific,

the u. s. facility right for 2020 has dropped to a rec hold low of 1.64, roughly the rate in europe over the past 5 years. for decades the u. s. birth rate has helped propel growth with an aging population and fewer skilled workers industry is already gearing up to rollout. robots. none more so than the construction industry. in the survey of 1900 construction businesses in europe, north america and china 91 percent said they face a skills crisis over the next 10 years. 44 percent say they're struggling to recruit for construction jobs. now the company behind that survey is a b, b robotics. it's president. sammy, i'll tell you joins us now from london. good to have you with us. so there's a shortage of skilled workers in different industries, from ports to the construction businesses. why not just open up immigration

and use skilled immigrants to fill the gaps rather than robots? well, there is a significant shortage in, in europe. 200000 workers are missing in a lot in the you are in also their eyes are also demands in the industry to increase productivity and also to have more sustainable way of building houses and commercial buildings. so the skill labor is, is one aspect of the total equation, but this industry will go through a significant transformation. like the automotive industry went through 4050 years ago where they started introducing, you know, rapport as ation on how to mission. and when we asked 1900 construction companies, they said 81 percent of them said they wouldn't introduce robots and automation in the next decade. so what do you make then of some of those patients that say the

robots and artificial intelligence are going to make some of the middle class jobs obsolete? is that going to cause massive unemployment and an implosion of the consumer economy as we know it? well, if you look at the statistics, the countries actually deploy most of the robots, which include south korea, germany, and japan. they have what we call above 300 robots 410000 workers, the average and the word is around 70. they actually enjoy the lowest unemployment rate and also the industries where we actually introduce robots, even customers, they enjoy growth and they deploy, actually more employees. the nature of job though will change over time. that is for sure. and that's why we have an obligation as a society and companies and the education system to, to invest in the risking of, of our fellow workers, camera, bolts do everything, especially on a,

on the building site, which is full of obstacles. how do you get a robot to deal with that? well that's, that's a very, very good question. you say, you know, there are 2 parts of this industrial automation in construction. one is on site and the other's off side. most of the outer mation will happen off side, which is in the manufacturing. there's big trends towards more modular housing. so you basically cut the woods upfront. you design with digital tools like ours, roberts dude you upfront and then you ship it on side and then you bring the construction together. nevertheless, they've also ultimate and reservation having happen on side and that will be less the majority. but we have examples for a company's con scott that does, these are putting together the skeleton of the steel on side that used to be done actually on top of the building. and now it's done on the basement. and

it's used to take can crunching about 116 hours for one ton and introduced robots. and now they're able to do it one hour for, for one time. so that's significant. change in the said this industry for all robots going to be made only for specific task, because that way we're going yes, robot can do repetitive dos, heavy load, what we call the dollar dollar dangerous and dirty jobs roberts can do. we expanding robots into more? what we call unstructured environments to your point before, when you are on the on site on the premise, there's multiple things that, that are unpredictable. so that's where the robots needs to get advantage over time . so we adding vision system, but still there are many areas where the, the human in an unstructured environment will remain superior. that's why we seeing more and more this collaborative robots,

the robot does certain work that human can approach and, and slows down the robot if necessary. or its sides moving faster. so these are all technologies that we introducing with our collaborative robot that eases the work between humans and robot. this is interesting. so give us an idea once all the sorts of jobs, the repetitive, the dangerous jobs that we might see. robots, rather than humans clustered in, well, if you look at the automotive is a typical example where this, this tedious work is, is, is now handed over to talk about many of the call that would take welding. it's a dangerous job because it's heat and environment that is not suited well for humans. this is a typical job or a robot can, can do a we're working with schindler elevator. while we introduce a robot that actually can go up the whole shaft of the elevator, which is

a quite dangerous work where humans actually less and less want to do, the robot goes up, scans the walls and sees were, what can drill holes and then goes step by step up and does the whole the whole shaft. so these are areas where robots are better suited, reduces their, their health risk for employees and also it's the productivity of or for the customers. oh, i think very interesting talking to thanks so much time for coming and sharing your thoughts. thank you very much. say all of us. and that's our show for this week is more for you online though without 0 dot com slash ctc. that'll take you straight to our page, which has in kyra to catch up on that's it for this edition of counting the cost. i'm sammy's a van from the whole team here. thanks for joining us. can use an al jazeera ah, a life and death struggle for racial equality in

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