90000000 euros budgets and that one has gone out of its way to try and make the estimated 200000000 viewers worldwide. forget about defend damage. but for some, it's more about the costumes than the music. that's fine. al jazeera, rotterdam, ah. so this is out there, these are the top stories and the full extent of israel's 11 day bob. bob went on guys are coming to light, it's humanitarian aid begins to enter the seed strip. united nation says $800000.00 people, no longer have regular access to clean water. after half of the water pipes with damage and as strikes 1000 to be left homeless, palestinians were already suffering from more than a decade of a crippling israeli blockade. in television, there was a red demonstration in support of the palestinian people, hundreds to power to the rally, organized by left wing and palestinian israeli political parties. thousands have

also gathered in pe roots. the martyr squared demonstration was held in support of the palestinian people in to denounce israel's attacks gates, media organizations during the conflict. what a london protested of cold on the government to impose sanctions on his ro organizes one more than a ceasefire for palestinians who say they've been persecuted for more than 70 years . volcanic eruption near the city of gamma, in democratic republic of congo has force thousands of people to flee for safety. at least 5 people died in a car crash in the clinic. what's up with them? we don't know what to do and we don't even know how to, there's no information, even on the national channel. people are panicking them, and we don't know if we should stay in the house or talk. we've come from the village fling the fire from the volcanoes lava, looked into the sky and to start the red color from the volcano we are looking for a place to shelter. god rescues in china is searching for

a missing athletes. after 20 others died in extreme weather. 172 runners would take part in a mountain cross country race, near china's by in the city. in northern gang su, province, rescue coordinators say a section of the 100 kilometer course was hit by sudden hail freezing, rain and gale force winds. races stopped up to athletes when using 1000000 people have now died from current virus across latin america. argentina has gone back into lockdown for the 1st time since last year. it's reported more than 35000 new cases for the 3rd day in a row. schools and old non essential businesses closed until the end of the month and a nighttime curfew is in place. right, you're upstate with headlines. got more news coming up here now to 0. right after counting the cost, talk to al jazeera,

we can the army were attacking ringer, and now they're attacking everyone in me on my do you regret? well, it's like that we listen. absolutely. nigeria with a woman present, it would be great. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on, sir. ah, hello, i'm sammy's a than this is counting the cost 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 weakness has western companies scrambling one wine 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 actually hasn't been easy for the tourism industry and find out if when a recovery isn't chief executive of

a business travel platform. but raising millions for expansion and aging populations falling birthrights, and few as 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 lifted 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, fruits treatments of wiggers, but up to 2000000 have been placed in internment camps in the western region. option 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 and so as it's better known in the high street, h and m of the pledging not to use cotton from sion. 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 band, the impulse of coughing and tomato products in january. it's estimated the us 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 force, 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 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 act with the bond from sheen. jang right. so how sure are we of these reports of 4th labor human rights groups have done as well as journalists,

done interviews of people from the area in the region that happened there and have to buy the viper to tell us what has happened. and so the batteries or being in prison. in addition to that, there are journalists and other visitors in 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 and the research that's 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 leadership, right. so investor lives, part of a mission of, of about 300 different organizations, 7070. so when we speak to 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 some to rely on at least have conversations about right. so you're fairly disturbed and taking them seriously. the us introduced a ban 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? yeah, 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 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 be starting to peek, to find out more about the cheese and the action. so my hope is that this trend of trade as you increase of this region will at least stole a little bit. there are various things that i've imported from which a lot of the attention has been related to cotton and apparel products. but there are lots of other role materials, so maybe the parent, some, i don't believe other for example, a report just came out earlier this week relating to the solar sector and the still

on and. 7 it believe that, you know, the region that we're speaking up the week are region 14 global supply. 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 bank clash. 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 has logic that still remains. the 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. well, 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 e,

s. g risks, environment as social and governments risks. these are continue to be more and more investment at the investment community, how compromised the companies that manufacture their goods in china, to particular issues of forced labor in shins, yang you know whether we're talking about apples 70. 0 wow. way on dallow, h, p, o, x cetera. is it possible to, to know how compromised they are with, shall we call it the things young issue. all companies have the responsibility to understand that 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 have that in human rights due diligence, understand where and how the leaf are in their respective fact he's in supply

facilities are, you know, where are they coming from? from government mandated 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 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, one against that backdrop one business traveler platform is flourishing. travel, poke, 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 to talking to us about travel car doors ahead of the time. but when it was actually implemented 2020 those still a holiday 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 meetings that matter happen in person and we see it as we want to go back to meeting our friends and family going holiday zone. but holidays and it's true also for business meetings, do business relationships and trusts that we create by meeting other people in person. so i think 2020, i'm just shown that deep truth about how we human interact and talk to each other. this combined with the fact that we grew in 2020, transferred, 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 our customers,

so we end up actually growing, doubling more size in 2020. so these 2 factors combined attracted 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 margaret treatment are globally mimic 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 month before the funding. so we have a lot of space to grow during it we acquired 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. we're using technology instead of only relying on human provided service.

traditional legacy 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 a perfect storm of great product meets demand. you still need to travel even a lot of essential trips, all happening. and the travelers are looking for solution and they're finding topic right. and we see somebody lines dropping the price of business class travel. clearly they 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 than in europe. and when speaking with our customers, they tell us that maybe 2030 percent of the total budget is going to basically be

thomas limiting. you know, it is necessary for day trips just for 30 minutes. transaction meeting. i don't see an issue for this kind of meetings to remain on wherever. at the same time we have a new countries 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 going to make things happen up in person, so it compensates for the 2030 percent that will hopefully get them. so i think net net we're talking about the industry doesn't going to keep growing years to come out. and you mentioned the market, then us 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, crawford, we actually today double the size in us domestic travel and we were in 2900 a month. like we are doubling our size in revenue compared to 19 at the moment and we still in the middle of crisis. the u. s. a different because of the vaccination and the fact that the countries big by talking about the single country where traditionally the less restriction to movement within the same state between states and you combined with a great nation project. and this is what it looks like. right. and i think very soon it was 7 years, for example, where the nation is fight even pick it up. and hopefully we should also see, according to between the you can do something up 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 topic it's already happening globally, i think. and for the interesting nation is the key. and then also government isn't a restriction, but it seems to be sequence 1st and then there anything else my a crystal ball isn't yours, but i would say around the summer after the summer we start seeing more and more international trauma. that's 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 are wired 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 to current d n, if you need to talk to cetera. and this one is, are changing. ok, for example,

changing almost on a daily basis when countries and amber countries and all of the stuff. so we are, are one of our mission and our topic is to provide this information to our customers in real time. because of what i do, and i think that'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 penalty or anything possible. and these 2 requirements to get information assessed information real time, are going to stay with us. why? my prediction is more than 12 months. 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. sincerely, 900 sixty's in china was emerging from a catastrophic famine. well,

across the pacific, the u. s. facility right for 2020 years 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 rates 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 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 to, to 1000 workers are missing in a lot in the you are in also there as 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 l. 2 motive 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 use 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 170. 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. 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 i was, robert sued you upfront, and then you ship it on site and then you bring the construction together. nevertheless, they also ultimate and reservation having happen on side and that will be less the majority. but we have examples for a companies 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 if about 116 hours for one ton and introduce robots. and now they're able to do it one hour for, for one time. so that's significant. change in 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 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 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 introduced 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 were, roberts, are better suited, reduces their the health risk for employees and also it's the productivity of or for the customers. oh, i think very interesting tilton too. 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 just 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 algebra. ah ah,

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