on a growing waiting list for social housing, some experts believe new zealand needs to rethink what housing means. we have the housing very much with a commodity. that's something that can be bought or sold, traded a seat of a social good. when we think about how we really need to start thinking about housing as something that's critical for people's well being for people to function for people to thrive and communities. the treasury is predicting a shop slow down in price growth. but at the moment, the only people who appear to be thriving, those already on the property, lead up $1900000.00 appreciate the offerings so welcoming wayne. hey al jazeera oakland. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, families and gaza returning home as a ceasefire between israel and palestinian militants. appears to be holding. humanitarian aid has begun to arrive into the is ready blockaded enclave after 11

days of his release strikes. what's left? thousands of people homeless hurry force it has more from gaza. people are still out on the streets, trying to resume something, approaching what was even for gaza, normal life before all of this took place. but every way you go around here, you see the evidence of what has taken place in the last few days across the road from us here. a building whose top couple of floors were very seriously damaged by and israeli strike, which itself is right next door to a bank which was totally wiped out. the us president says creating a palestinian state alongside israel is the only answer to the conflict. joe biden has reaffirmed his support for israel and also pledge to help rebuild garza for lanka as imposed a travel ban and an effort to curb a search and corona virus infections amid a 3rd wave. this comes as the islands ki medical associations among the country go into lockdown for 2 weeks. military source is in nigeria,

say the head of the army is among 11 people killed in a plane crash. lieutenant general abraham utter hearers plain came down during an official visit to the state of could do not. the air force says the crash happened close to could an airport. an investigation is now underway. nigeria military is investigating reports, the leader of booker, her rom, maybe dead or seriously injured, after trying to kill himself, to avoid being captured by a rifle armed group backup. chicago has been the figurehead, a book of her arm for several years. police in the united states at louisiana, every body come footage of the violent arrest of a black man after being accused of a cover up. the video shows ronald greene being tasted, punched and choked by the white officers 2 years ago. but the footage has only just been released following an investigation by the associated press screen died on the way to hospital up next, counting the cost more news in half an hour. we'll see you then. bye bye. you are

english streaming live tv channels plus thousands of our programs, like winning documentary, you get to choose the right to you choose forward slash al jazeera english news . hello, i'm sammy's a dan. this is counting the costs and i'll just go look at the world of business and economics this week. the factory of the world has a full flavor problem. china's in term into millions of weavers has western companies scrambling one wind supply chain. but they dragging their feet and they faced the bank clash from beijing also this week, a trillion plus and losses and millions of jobs hasn't been easy for the tourism industry and find out if one a recovery and chief executive of

a business travel platform that is raising millions for expansion and aging populations, falling birthrights and skilled workers. industries are looking into the use of robotics. we look 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. investors pricing corporations that do business with china to verify supply chains for the use of force labor, the u. s. and e, you have imposed sanctions on beijing, fruits, treatments of wiggers, but up to 2000000 have been placed in internment camps in the western region. ocean jang, many have 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. calls china's actions genocide. that's making it more difficult for some to continue to do business. take hannah's and more. it's all, as it's better known in the high street, h n. m. of the pledging not to use cotton from chin. 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 import of coffee and tomato products in january. it's estimated the us imported $9000000000.00 of constant products and $10000000.00 of tomatoes last year. supply chains for solar panels are also clustered in the region, raising concerns among investors about force, labor in facts,

half the world's raw materials to make. so the panels comes from it. shinji yang. further complicating the world's move away from fossil fuels, reports compiled by the german parliament concludes the country's new supply chain law will likely mean german companies have to withdraw from chin jang and related supply chains. otherwise they face fines or even criminal prosecution. obey jing 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 outside as whether they did plots or journalists or human rights activists. the boss from she. jang, right to how sure are we of these reports of, for the labor human rights groups have done as well as journalists done

interviews of people from the area in china on the region that happened there and help provide 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 into 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 week is being sold on internet sites to factories across the country. i mean, how well documented all these reports from our discussions that we're in touch with

a lot of human rights. so, investor life, part of a politician of about 300 different people that they should 7070. right? so when we speak, then they have families and relevant and some of them were actually working in the summer class. so you know, my perspective is these accounts, you know, i definitely see to rely on at least have conversations about this. right? so you're fairly disturbed and taking them seriously. the u. s. introduced a ban on cotton. they seem to be disturbed by these sorts of reports too. but despite that we fill, seen exports double in the 1st quarter of 2021. why is that? what's happening? i mean it's, it's, it's 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 the supply chain. they don't have a good understanding of what is going on. and the weaker region, you know, it is really just over the last year or more. so my, my view is that companies are starting to be starting to peek, to find out more about their 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 feature. a lot of the attention has been related to cotton and a power products, but there are lots of other role materials. so was maybe the parent some, i don't believe other for example, report just came out earlier this week relating to the solar sector and the still

on, i believe that you know, the region that we're speaking week or region or why so is that reports coming out right now, i don't easy in this 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 backlash driving the trend? the other way? my hope is that it isn't. it's while we were very troubled by respond by 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 or your organization has $160.00 institutional investors in its membership, right? you represent something like 5 trillion dollars in assets under management wise. this issue becoming so important. do you think to investors invest in that they don't stand the talk from the companies that you're invested in? they understand that same money would be invested in a company that 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 rich environment, the social and governments risks. these are continue to be more and more investment at the community, how compromised the companies that manufacture their goods in china, to particular issues for slavery. she jang, whether we're talking about apple or sony. oh wow. way or dallow, h. p sexual? is it possible to, to know how compromise they are with sure we call it the things young issue. all companies have the responsible to understand that supply chain and that was being one of the things that has been quite alarming, actually. conversations that companies and 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 human rights diligent, understand where and how the lead for in their respective fact he's and supply

facilities are, you know, where are they coming from? from government programs, other subsidies suppliers from the chinese government in order to support systems that are placed in progressive region. like alright, thanks so much anita. good talking to you know great thanks. thanks for having me off the 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 rivals 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. i be the last time you're on counting, the cost you a 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 bucks on there and was happy to be 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 matter happened in person and we see it as we want to go back to meeting our friends and family 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've just shown that deep truth about how we humans interact and talk to each other . this combined with the fact that we grew in 2020 chopper and double the size in terms of customer base in 2020, we didn't lay off 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 end up actually growing, doubling more size in 2020. so these 2 factors combined, i think a truck 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 sides relative to the market is still talking about the huge markets of 1.5 trillion r globally. and then again, i'm very confident that it goes back to this number in the next 2 years. so we're talking about the huge market and our sizes are granted to the market was the 1st model before the fund damage. so we have a lot of space to grow during the required, 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 product. i think it's a key, you know, using technology instead of only relying on human provided service. traditional

travel agents used to do the fact that we are technology company that we scale with technology and i think helps a lot in our, in our numbers. and also this is what customers are looking for, right? so the perfect storm of great product meets demand. you still need to travel, even though a lot of essential trips are happening and the travelers are looking for solution and they're finding topic. right. and we, 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, you know, we started to very globally, more than 4000 companies. mostly in the us and europe, and we're sticking with our customers. they tell us that maybe 2030 percent of the

total budget is going to basically become as limiting unnecessary full day trips just for 30 minutes transaction. and i think i don't see an issue for this kind of meetings to remain on wherever. at the same time we have a new kind of strips that are emerging. for example, some distributed remote teams that he's not transiting increasing, received with a customer. suddenly 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 meetings have to up in person, so it compensates for the 2030 percent. that will hopefully i think net. net we're talking about the industry that's going to keep growing in years to come out and you mentioned the market, then u. s. domestic bookings that almost back to pre covey 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 customers. we actually today double the size in us domestic travel. then we were in $2900.00 a month, like we are doubling our size in revenue convert to 90 and the 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 the less restriction to movement within the same state when states and combined with a great nation project. and this is what it looks like. right. and i think very soon it was him 7 years, for example, where the nation is fighting to pick it up. and hopefully we should also see, according to between the you can do something about very so on. 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 topic it's already happening globally, i think. and for the interest, you know, the whole estimation is the case. and then also government isn't the restriction, but it seems to be sequence 1st that they're using my a crystal bodies of yours. but i would say around the summer after the summer we start seeing more and more international trauma. summer isn't too far away. it's nice to have a bit of optimism on this show, isn't it? well, 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 on top of the saved, it provides the restriction in real time to our customers. so, you know, if you need to test, if you need to current d n, if you need to talk to cetera. and this one is,

are changing ok for up with changing almost on a daily basis when countries and amber countries and all of the stuff. so we are, are one of our mission topic is to provide this information to our customers in real time. because of what i do, and i think there's what you're going to stay with us for a while, which is also why when it's flexibility and the ability to change it, frames cancel them without any penalty possible. and these 2 requirements to get information assessed information in real time are going to stay with us. what was my prediction in more than 12 months? i've 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 figures. sincerely, 900 sixty's and china was emerging from a catastrophic famine. well,

across the pacific, the u. s. facility rate 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 a survey of 1900 construction businesses in europe, north america and china 91 percent said they face as skilled 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 loan. in d, u r in el paso. 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 scale 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 in our optimization 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 jobs 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 is a, 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 drop of the ation having happen on side at that would 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 crunch of 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 das heavy load. what we call the dollar dollar dangerous and dirty jobs, the robots can do. we expanding robots into more, what we call unstructured environment. see 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 robot needs to get advantage over time . so we adding vision system, but still there are many areas where that the human in an unstructured environment will remain superior. that's why we seeing more and more of 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 introducing with our collaborative robot that eases the work between humans and hon. 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, to 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, where 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 bought, can drill holes and then goes step by step up and does the whole the whole shop. so these are areas were, roberts, are better suited, reduces their health risk for employees and also it's a 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. where my site 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 entire up 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, is a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there. why supremacy?

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