stephanie, who the new shepherd spacecraft was named after t v presenter and former nfl star michael strong was the other invited guest on the flight flight. so we're done on that. that the trainees that are here and i got to say it was sir. tony really have you want to spell that? but it was on believable. it's hard even describe it. i was going to take a little bit to process it way. couldn't have gone better. get my hair again. man. we haines. i could fly idea today. ah, i'm sammy's a down with a look at the headlines here now this year and now rescue teams in the u. s. is searching for survivors off the tornadoes ripped through 6 states on friday night. at least 80 people are dead. the southern state of kentucky was the worst hit,

the extreme where the left a trail of destruction stretching more than 320 kilometers. president joe biden says it's likely to be one of the largest tornado outbreaks in us history. i want folks in all the station know we're going to get through this for you to get through this together in the federal government is not going to walk away. this is one of those times when we aren't democrats or republicans. sounds like i probably, but it's real, we're all americans. we stand together as united states of america. and so i said all the victims, you're in our prayers and all those 1st responders, emergency personnel and everyone helping your fellow americans. this is the right thing to do with the right time, and we're going to get through this. jay gray has more from arkansas. this isn't the time of year we use. we see tornadoes in an area that is familiar with tornadoes, but usually in a spring time, what i'm hearing from survivors is 1st, stun disbelief. i think most are still in shock,

as you could imagine. and then in small towns like this 11500 or so, everybody either knows someone who was affected or, or a friend or a relative of someone affected. and so it really strikes hard. the british foreign secretary is called to western unity against all for a terry and ism, and threats from russia and china. the u. k is hosting g 7 foreign ministers in liverpool, along with delegates from southeast asian country. russia was singled out by the us in britain for a massive troops on ukraine's border. the south pacific island of new caledonia is holding a referendum on independence from france. it's the 3rd vote on the issue. off the vote is narrowly rejected the idea in 2018, and 2020. it's counting the cost thou stay with us here now, jazeera, the corona virus pandemic has altered modern society. as governments have grappled

with soaring cases, contact tracing, and huge data collections are causing concern amongst civil rights activists. people in power investigates the ever increasing powers of governments and businesses as they access peoples most personal data and asks, what is being done to regulate the flow of sensitive information under the cover of cove it on a jazzy i lose hello, i'm hasn't seek this is counting the cost on your look at the world of business and economics this week, no one is safe until everyone is safe. corona virus is forcing the world to take unifying action against health, emergency. but all rich countries ready to put the bill for

a global treaty on pandemic readiness. also this week, they are super fast and unstoppable. hypersonic missiles are driving and you arms rate between the superpower and defense giants online, the profits driven by the sun. so now motors raises millions to get it. solar powered cars on the road, talk to one of the companies co founder. ah, the money spent by one person a week to buy a chocolate bar could help stop the spread of corona virus, and stave of huge economic losses. that's according to save the children. the agency says every dollar invested in the global vaccination dr. rich nations could avoid losing $35.00 from their budget. yet wealthy nations have failed to provide the poor countries with the much needed vaccines. and there's been a lack of coordination to tackle. the pandemic of that need to co operate is now

gaining momentum after the army kron variance of code 19 was detected in south africa. the variance threatens to reverse economic recovery and effect government plans to deal with high inflation and supply chain backlogs. world health organization member states have agreed to negotiate a global treaty on pandemic prepared. but it would take years for the treaty to be put in place the agreement is not expected to be signed before 2024. potentially. after this, pandemic has ended, and it aims to set up a global structure that would identify threats earlier and better share information on emerging viruses. some countries have push for a sharp increase in domestic funding for health care systems. they've suggested an international financing mechanism was 75000000000 us dollars over 5 years, among other ideas, boosting financial contributions to the w h o y calling for changes to its

governance. and one of the most crucial elements of the plan equal access to health goods meeting demand for vaccines and other drugs and eliminating choke points in the system. a drug makers have opposed sharing the recipes of corona virus vaccines with poor nations. and the push at the world trade organization to waive intellectual property rights of the doses have so far failed. south africa is one of those leading the push for waivers at the w t. o. after alerting the world about the owner con, variance now feels punished after several countries and post travel bands on southern african nations presidency. rama postal says the measures are hurting their economies. they basically say we will not allow you to travel around. but lo and behold, on the crime is spreading all over the world, including in the, our own countries. and now you ask yourself, where is signs?

they've already said to us, base your decisions on science. but when the moment comes for them to be more scientific, they are not. they resort to their own self interest and ben trevor from the south african countries. while i'm joined now from johannesburg by dr. lincoln monday, who is a professor at the school of economics and finance with the university of woodward rand, he's also a former chief economist and executive vice president at the south africa industrial development corporation. good to have you would have talked up. now we've talked about how south africa, despite being the 1st to identify this variant and alert the world to it. the response from much of the world was travel bands. why do you think that happened? this happened because of our national innovation systems, excellence by south africa,

based on the knowledge that south africa believed during the h. i. v. aids pandemic. and therefore, the ability of king of dropping a support mechanisms, research and development around pandemic, am and ability to share that with formation has been, as shown to be south africa forge. and that is a bird to show their wage how capability we are. and now we can what prepared also to shed that knowledge because we believe in global data g. so that all the information that to grab on can share and the world can learn how to come with a prevented to measure so south africa has been punished for each such excellence a do these kind of need jerk reactions just expose the lack of global clarity on

this the lack of a coordinated response. absolutely, it also indicates the extent to reach ad global did as she has a good control over many, many ends of neoliberalism, rugged him globally. and the push towards trouble is ation way over there. since the 97 kids, we've seen the erosion of capabilities of many states and the lions of them all on the market. and in that process eroded. yeah, by political you that she in preference for the market. and when pundum needs, some prices arise, such as the to one financial crises that he saw in toy age. and now recently the, the global have pardon me. that to, while he does, i'm able to come with consent had formed that only not address the needs as mission stage,

but also address global human challenges. because while on one while all the humans, therefore, we need that drawback sort of got into a coral core corporation collaboration and shuddering of vaccines so that all of us come out to gather healthy as human beings within the world. and what do you think the impact of these travel bands is going to be on south africa economy the longer they are in place, catastrophic sub forgot already. that only has it got high levels of instruction. and of course, but also high level of employment that about that you 4.9 percent and designing the economy. you re sunk by 1.5 percent in the fed, a quarter of when div pin one, but more importantly where it needs to create jobs. they told them set off at the course of south africa, was beauty for flora and for none of really well,

just fascinated that is being punished because it is now so much fun for drug. and you get quite a lot of our michigan european east and asian as the talk to our country. and therefore we are not going to be able to address the problems of how i did. the band continues and call upon the weather to really think deeply and avoid this new reaction. open up this guides so that we can as well test the panoramic also allow people to get jobs and improve their livelihoods. and that's why they've been this talk of a global pandemic treaty. what do you think of that idea is, 1st of all, is this something that could work and is going to materialize? it's something that could where could remember that after the 1st world war work together and really pushed for them for mission of what today called central banks following this again, we're, we're also well together,

the way in the construction development of where the economy is by forming the, the tools producing of federal roads. now what bank and i'm as little collage of the course done dodge, we came which mechanism of supporting one another. so what a history of global sort of very deep particular stop and catastrophic events and their coverage has been cut us coffee. and i figured that, you know, and that city will go a long way again. and to read night jen. fudge. you may need to, to gather, as you have done. so he started really, as i've indicated, and therefore we feel and fall off regard. and many of our african proud of them says does that to be let down again by the, by the you loop. and i'm mary car in really taking center stage and they to get out of africa in these episodes i've mentioned defect the 2nd world war and the

collapse of the course done not. so it is that edge that we, that asians, that we need from the global ship to come to be cheaper to send a tread t so that you can be able to share the knowledge still would vaccine to highly that had poor countries and really continue at to get out quantum is going as we, as we work together to make sure that there is no human being left behind in there . well, that is fully funded, as well as go, but inequality and this global pandemic treaty aims to provide money for things like health care systems, personal protective equipment, research, and pandemic preparedness. but all this is going to cost money. so who do you think should pay for here? so we have quite my time. you see that i've talked about particularly the president woods institutions. they need to come to the party, politely supporting the highly indebted port countries. where would notice i've seen what saw ad law in the areas of supplying vaccines as well as

a tough not president recruitment. the last off, let me come an immediate income countries can also accept loans and we shall result we didn't for the world bank. and i met for donalds are supporting these countries. so i think a lot of the stuff for to complete our selves out of each. but you require that human cooperation to address you because most of our countries don't have such capabilities. and therefore, they require support to fund this edge collection of data. and therefore in doing sol mitigate any ad potential which edition as well as other books can image coming up. so really said meet, show, go back from the garbage. you finding it and mix of odds will going or keep up. and i, bro, financially, to fund ourselves and the really global support for the hydrogen to them. what can

be good motives? i see it's ensure that that gets free access to all the support mechanism, including the creation of capabilities for its edge and knowledge development. as scientists have pointed out that until the whole world is vaccinated, this is just going to keep happening. we're still going to get new variance coming through, which will keep slowing down our efforts to get out of this pandemic, do you think the micron variance is the wake up call and you think the rich countries will stop hoarding vaccines? now, what did you do? come quarter for all of us and humanity. and i've been because of we could, she had been many of the global, not countries. there is a tendency of protecting deaf sems. what aggregates alia, that seems bend to supported with new liberalism. many governments gave a lot of power to, to markets and, and enter partners. she'd been, and companies,

in this case, a big pharmacies. so if they continue protecting and giving power to those and companies, what i'd like to do decisively with this plan to me therefore we call upon the if you look in an american do that, she drives a to the challenge and work together. they're farmers there, but you are all pharmaceuticals in the global sods, and shed knowledge shed the roxanne and give walks into pool hyde into the countries and then doing badge i working together as one would be able to come to, pardon me. but that is in time, will open up all economies and ensure that every age of communities because we're facing who challenges outside the, pardon me, we have our archive manage. and the unself been ability of the word ads which will continue with the pandemic. and also not coming up, what are you to get on dealing with climate change, which is also going to bring its own challenges such as food shortages and

therefore have fun in and provide you in many of the world am and countries dr. luke kill monday. thanks for being with us. it's been a pleasure, been forcing me how the new arms race is all about. speed hypersonic missile is not on the fly, many times faster than the speed of sound they are highly maneuverable. can carry nuclear warheads and a hard to detect several countries on now spending billions to develop them. they include france, india, japan, australia, and north korea. but china, the us and russia, are running the most advanced programs. a moscow recently fired it's con, hypersonic miss are from a warship and says it is part of a new generation of unrivalled arm systems. but it is china's advancements that are worrying the united states. the most washington says beijing is fight a projectile from the system during a test carried out in july that signals the chinese program has out paste other

countries. china denies it carried out the test of the u. s. is developing its own hypersonic weapons while the pentagon has been pushing for it, the army is not expected to field its 1st missile. before 2023. washington has awarded contracts to major defense companies to develop a new hypersonic glide phase interceptor. it says it will be able to destroy an incoming hypersonic missile, or the u. s. has increased funding for hypersonic weapons in recent years. the pentagon's budget request for the weapon research is 3 point a 1000000000 dollars next year. up from it's 3200000000 for 2021. russia has made upgrading its nuclear arsenal priority over the next 2 years. it plans to spend around $50000000000.00 on defense. a china is investing heavily in advanced weaponry, and more than $209000000000.00 was set aside for defense this year. but it's

military budget is thought to be much larger than the official figures due to buried costs. while i'm joined here in doha now by defense analyst alex good topless to find out what's the big deal behind hyper sonics nicely with this alex. so just tell us what is the attraction of, of, of these hypersonic missiles. why now? why are so many countries investing in them? what hope is on it is a buzzword. it's, um, it, it's basically a measure of how fast that missile is going. so it's anything beyond 5 times the speed of sound, or put another way. it's a 6200 kilometers. so very fast. but normal missiles already travel, the speed, normal ballistic missiles. i persona missile is designed to leave the earth, leave the atmosphere, and then plunge straight back in. what it can do is evade missile defenses. are that have been developed to stop traditional ballistic missiles? i'm that makes it dangerous in the sense that it can't be stopped. and you, you won't know until the last minute what the target actually is. so it's

unpredictable innocence, a speaking of unpredictability because it's, it's something so new right now in the arms in the arms world. there isn't an agreement between the u. s. in china, and there's also the expiry of most of the, the old cold war accords between the u. s. and russia. so that makes it kind of a, a free for all right now, doesn't it? it does. and that free for all was on the cards on the united states is pulled out . some of those on big cold agreements are russia and turn has also started to ignore them. china was never a signatory, so it's not bound by any of these agreements. and it has been developing its technology, military technology at full pace. now it's the other countries that are starting to catch up now that they're not pinned down by these old agreements, that frankly never really anticipated. these new technologies coming up and they're, they're out of date. and what, why is the u. s. lagging behind china on his,

both the, the focus has been on counter insurgency and those rather thorny problems. the last decade and a half of the united states has been embroiled in at least 2 wars, and also the very costly um, process of potentially nation building dead. so the money hasn't been there. and then you've had a, an economic crisis which is obscene. i'm had an impact on what can be developed, but now now that those was a finished, now those was a rover. now that china has taken a jump ahead in capabilities. america is now also catching up by the way. they have been developing this stuff quietly for about at least a decade with some degree of success. so do you expect the us to start investing more in this technology now 9, that's china. seems to be racing ahead on this. absolutely, absolutely. i think most countries will, of francis, also investing by the way our india is developing

a hypersonic missile hypersonic version of its promise missile or so all modern military's will be looking to, to start to get this capability and to incorporate into their assholes and military thinking and do these weapons have the potential to actually change the balance of power tools? at the moment, hyper sonic is a buzzword, it sounds great, it sounds futuristic. but these technologies have been around for decades. it's how you use these new missiles that's really going to seem determine whether they're actually got any more use on the battlefields or not. they're fast, they're unpredictable. and that's always a good thing if, when you are trying to destroy your enemy and how lucrative is this going to be potentially for defense contractors. i mean, how beneficial is this going to be from a business point of view, i think said for the united states point of view um, budgetary bodies, already worried about massive cost overruns. we had the stealth

r f 35 program go way, way, way over budget. and i think um, i think now um each of the 3 services are worried that they're going to be dragged into some sort of a commitment where you start to pay for something and then a decade down the line. it's costing 3 times as much. all right, alex topple as thank you. now german sonar motors is one of a handful of stops that have developed a solar powered vehicle. it's passenger cy, on car is wrapped by solar panels. there can automatically charge itself when it's sunny. it sounds, environmentally friendly though it's not quite fully solar power. the car still has a battery, but it doesn't rely on being plugged in. the compact 5 door hatchback will be sold for $28700.00 us dollars and is expected to make it to consumers by the 1st half of 2023. while the car can be charged through a war box, so no says the sun,

which feeds energy into the battery can handle most of the daily commute. so from munich via zoom, i'm joined now by lauren han, the co founder and chief executive of sono motors. thanks so much for being with us . so obviously you're heavily invested in this and you believe the solar powered cause or the future. tell us why. we see that combustion engines? i thing of the past. electric vehicles aren't present. and solar electric vehicles we believe are the future. why? well, because they do so one thing, convenience, convenience for customers. up to 4 times more range compared to any other electric vehicle with the same battery size. and that's convenience. that's why we indicate solar on 2 vehicles. but critics have pointed out the limits of this technology at the moment. the fact it's no solar panel they say can generate enough power to

drive the car round while still being small enough to be carried by the vehicle itself. what do you say to that? look, our solar technology means that we charged this vehicle with 5800 kilometers on average per year. the driving distance is on average, 12000 kilometers a year in europe. so what you half is already half of the distance you drive on average in europe is 2 days covered by solar. and now think about solar technology, improving inefficiency. over the next few years. we will have cars on the road which cover your daily distance. and that's why we integrate all on every vehicle. what's your primary market right now? where do you see demand at the moment, mainly coming from for these cars? look, we have 2 pillars where we build up our business on 1st to the s e v,

a solar electric vehicle where we have 16000 dom her payments worth over 400000000 us in revenue. on the 2nd pillar, we license and sell our solar technology to be to be customers, trucks, trains, camp of ambassadors, whatever moves. we can integrate solar and all of that we make possible because our mission is put solar on every vehicle and you say solar power cars makes electric vehicles more affordable. your car is being sold. as we mentioned earlier at just on the $29000.00. how do you manage to keep it at that level? well, there are 5 strategies we have which make this car so fordable. first, we have only one product. second, we have no own factory. we let

a contract manufacturer produce further no paint shop because of solar force online direct sales. and lastly, only solar pounds means you have no press stamping steel tools for the outer skin. and that 5 strategies allow us to be so affordable with our 1st ego. a lot of people who perhaps are not familiar with this technology and they hear the hear the word solar powered cars. they'll, they'll be inclined to think, well this, this can only really work in, in warm countries or in places where the sun is out all the time. and in northern countries where it's cloudy and so on. what's going to happen then? i'm not going to be able to get power in my car. what do i do that? what do you say to that? our numbers and figures we have on our website are in munich, and i can tell you munich is not the sunniest place leaving here makes sense. totally sense. but if you go more south, especially in region with a lot of sun,

this car is happening. this cars, perfect for commuters. just cars, perfect for taxi drivers for delivery services for communities. this car is being shared. it's having vital right to charging it, having solar panels integrated and being very affordable. so with that we see crate potential for other regions in the world. good to have you on that. lauren hon. thanks for being with us. thank you so much bye. and that is all show for this week . get in touch with us, bye tweeting me at has him seeka and do use that tag a j. c t. c. when you do or drop us an email. counting the cost at al jazeera dot net is our address. as more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash ctc, that'll take you straight to our page, which has individual reports, links, an entire episode for you to catch up on that is it for this edition of counting

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