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news, news, news, news, news, hello, i'm hasn't seek and 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 flip 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 on the profits driven by the sun. so now motors raises millions to get it. solar powered cars on the road, you talked to one of the companies co founders. 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 cooperate is now gaining women after the army. kron variance of colbert 19 was detected in south africa. the variance threatens to reverse economic recovery and effect governments

plans to deal with high inflation. and supply chain backlogs. world health organization member states have agreed to negotiate a global treaty on pandemic preparedness. 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. or drug makers have opposed sharing the recipes of corona virus and vaccines with poor nations. and the push at the will trade organization to waive intellectual property rights of the doses have so far failed of 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 of the several countries and post travel bands on southern african nations presidency. ram opposed to 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 have 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 johannes, but 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? and 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 a, b, g 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 wedge how capability we are. and how can what prepared also to shed that knowledge, because we believe in global certainly. gee, 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 knee 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 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 their tuba, financial crises that he saw in toy age. and now recently the, the global health, 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 and 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 at about 34.9 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 he needs to create jobs, they told him set off at the course of south africa, was beauty for flora and for non of really well, just fascinated that he's been punished because it is now so much fun for drug. and

you get quite a lot of our michigan european and middle east and asian as he talked 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 the skies so that we can as well just 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 to day recall, central banks following this again we're, we're also well together the wag in the construction development of where the economist by forming the, the tools producing federal now what bank and i'm as little collage of the polls

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 do that, you know, and that city will go a long way again and to read night and fudge their humanity 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 law 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 that knowledge to 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 should have talked about particularly the president would 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 and meet income countries can also accept loans and we shall very

soft. 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 potential mich michigan, as well as other looks kind image coming up so really said meet, show, go back from the garbage. you finding it and mix of odds we're going or keep up. and i, bro, financially, to fund ourselves and the really global support for the hydrogen, and what can be good motives. i see it's going to show that that gets free access to all the support mechanism, including depletion of capabilities for its edge. and notice 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 did, she had been many of the global, not countries. there is a tendency of protecting deaf sems, whatever aggregates alia, that seems bend, disappointed with new liberalism. many governments gave a lot of power to, to my kids and, and her partners, she'd been, and companies, in this case, big pharmacies. so if they're continue protecting, and giving power to those and companies, what i'd like to do decisively with this pandemic, therefore,

we call upon the if you look in an american do that she drives 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 you challenges outside the, pardon me, we have our archive manage and they have been the 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 u. s. and russia are running the most advanced programs. and moscow recently 5, it's con, hypersonic misses from a war ship and says it is part of a new generation of unrivalled arm systems. but it is china's advancements that are warring, the united states, the most washington says beijing as fight a projectile from the system during a test carried out in july that signals the chinese program has outpaced 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 the army is not expected to feel its 1st mis. all 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 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 kilometer so very fast. but normal missiles already travel, the speed, normal ballistic missiles. i persona missile is designed to leave the earth. you 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. and 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 are 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 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 a 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, i personally, his 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 is 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 center for the united states point of view, a budgetary bodies are 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 is costing 3 times as much. all right, alix could topple us. thank you. now german sonar motors is one of a handful of startups that have developed a solar powered vehicle. it's passenger cy, on car is wrapped by solar panels that 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 than 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 or 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 that 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 integrates all on every vehicle . what's your primary market right now? where do you see demand at the moment, mainly coming from so 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, comp, of, and buses, whatever moves we can to create 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 shirt or 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 i'm 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 having this cars. perfect. so computers, this car is 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 trade 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 to get in touch with us. bye sweetie. me ask, hasn't we can do use that a j. c, d, c. when you do or talk with an e mail counting, the cost at dot net is our address. it's more for you online at i just did a dot com slash ctc that will take you straight to a page which has individual reports, links, an entire episode for you to catch up on that is it for this edition of counting the cost? has them speak up on the whole team here? thanks for joining us. the news on, as it is next, the ah

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