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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 when a recovery isn't chief executive of a business travel platform. but raising millions for expansion and aging populations falling birthrights and fewest 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 lifted 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 us and you have impose sanctions on beijing fritz treatment 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 best known in the high street, h and m off, the pledging not to use coffin 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 coffee 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 activists. the bond from sheen. jang. right. so how sure are we of these reports of, for the labor human rights groups have done well 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 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 and the research that's coming out of been 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 are these reports from our discussions that we're in such a lot of human rights. so investor life, part of a mission of about 300 different organizations to 70, right? 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 the challenge. you know, i definitely something to rely on at least have conversations about this. right. so you're fairly disturbed and 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? 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 heat 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 are being imported from which

a lot of the attention has been related to often and apparel products. but there are lots of other role materials. so maybe 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 it believe that, you know, the region that we're speaking of 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 increase 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 like companies to the backlash, we still see the majority of the company based on that particular backlash that we have 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, 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, environment as social and governance risk. 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 of false 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 and the lack of understanding of their supply chain is really quite surprising. so i will say that company need to understand why we need to keep that human rights diligent, understand where and how the li, for in their respective fact he's in 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 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 while come 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 confident in a recovery? yeah, thank you for having it back 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 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 to be do business relationships and trust 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 trust each other.

this combined with the fact that we grew in 2020, transferred in 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, i think attracted many investors. but doesn't that mean? i mean, if people are meeting life, especially business travelers are meeting left 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. so one, treating our 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 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, 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 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 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 any time 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 today, globally more than 4000 companies, mostly in the us than europe. and when speaking with our customers, they tell us that maybe 2030 percent of the 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 countries that are emerging, for example, some distributed remote teams that the transit is increasing, receive the principal, the customers 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 have to up in person,

so it compensates for 20 to 30 percent. that will hopefully zones. i think net. net we're talking about the industry that we're going to keep growing in years to come . you mentioned the us 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 customers, profit. we actually today double the size in u. s. domestic travel. when we were in $2900.00 a month, like we are doubling our size and 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 got less restriction to move in within the same standard wednesdays. and you combined with a great fascination project. and this is what it looks like,

right. and i think very soon within 7 years, whereabouts initially it's funny to 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 you know, for the interest, you know, the whole nation is the key. and then also government isn't the restriction, but it seems to be secret. first mention 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 problem when the 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 the company actually. and now we have a product probably safe to provide the restriction in real time to our customers. so, you know, if you need to, if you need current d n, if you need talk soon to cetera. and this ones are changing as we see now. okay. first, are changing almost on a daily basis when countries and amber countries and all the stuff. so we are one of our mission properties to provide this information to our customers in real time . because of what i do. and i think that's what i do, it is going to stay with us for a while, which is also why we need flexibility and the ability to change it frames cancel them without being there. how can we possible and these 2 requirements, 6 information, i just information real time are going to stay with us. what was my prediction is more than 12 months i've. it's been good talking to you. 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 been 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 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 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 alona, india. you are in el paso 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 our operators ation 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 cost 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 about $300.00 robots per $10000.00 workers, the average and the word is $170.00. 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. can robots 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 i was roberts, dude you upfront and then you ship it on site and then you bring the construction together. nevertheless, they also automated 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 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're on the, on, on side, 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 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 entered using with our collaborative robot that eases the work between humans and, 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 draw 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 health risk for employees and also it's a productivity again for, 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.

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