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stephen beard's in berlin it's good to have you with us. another 3000000 workers in the u.s. filed for unemployment benefits last week adding to the staggering number of jobless in the country but continuing the downward trend the 1st filings more than 36000000 workers in the u.s. have filed for the benefits since the beginning of the pandemic and some u.s. states close to a quarter of the labor force is unemployed and more states have begun reopening businesses in recent days. meanwhile the struggling airline industry delta airlines saying it will retire all 18 of its flagship long haul boeing 777 jetliners as it races to cut costs and delta says it expects international travel to return only slowly most of its planes are parked on runways and it says that when demand does come back it's going to look to smaller more fuel efficient airliners made by boeing's european rival air bus to serve those major

international routes. or at let's bring in our wall street correspondent yens korda in new york. let's start with these job numbers out of the u.s. is the pressure growing on u.s. states to reopen faster with all these people now out of work. i'm quite certain that the pressure will increase and you have to look at the situation of those single and households and people who lost their jobs we do not have a similar social safety net as you have it in germany for instance or in other countries programs like short work for example do not exist here in the united states so clearly there is a lot of pressure to bring those shops spec and that is only possible if we actually start reopening the labor market and the companies gradually right in the short term work program you mention of course government subsidizing

business is basically saying keep workers on payroll now yes the openings that we have already seen in the u.s. as states open gradually are they making any meaningful dent in these unemployment numbers or can they in the weeks ahead well there probably will in the week and. the big question is how foster those jobs will come back how many employees actually will feel safe enough to return to work so there are a lot of open questions and then as fed chairman jerome paul mentioned on wednesday at a video conference and he at least believes that we also could see some bankruptcies from u.s. corporations and that would actually slow down the recovery from the u.s. labor market the only good news is that those claims at least that you claims they slowed down a bit but still those numbers are actually really shocking more than 36000000 people now let's shift to delta we just talked about the airline nixing the triple

7 it's throwing everything that has into cost cutting just like other airlines will it be enough to save these major flyers. the big question is what will happen in fall because so far there is still some governmental aid to the airlines to tens of billions of dollars in aid but that program will actually end september and the big question is what happens then delta itself has a better capital. for then we see it was some of the competitors and actually delta is saying that they hopefully will have cash burn rate by the end of the year right now they're burning about $50000000.00 every single day. all right yes quarter there for us in new york thank you very much. well the world needs facemasks and it can be surprising which businesses are answering the call here in germany

a little known plastics machinery maker is among those shifting gears churning out material to make millions of masts every week. process engineer. always keeps an eye on the quality of these plastic granules his company makes machines that produce non woven fabrics these are used in face masks that filter out fire says and right now demand is vastly outstripping supply so the company known for making the machines is also now helping make the masks to do so it's running it's testing machinery day and night. we use this machinery to produce 8 rolls of material a day with a single layer of filter in each mask that's enough to make 1000000 masks. to make a role like this requires the machine builders years of expertise around 70 percent of the known wovens produced worldwide are manufactured on the fife and machinery

many machine parts are protected by patents and can only be produced here in this workshop. the company is working at its limits in the past it did a lot of business in china but now inquiries are coming from all over the world and deliveries are now headed to france canada and the u.s. for the 1st time. i think protective masks are essential equipment in these times of crisis and governments are now realizing and are now putting them on their list of strategic products. to reduce the risk of employees infecting each other workplaces in the production hole have been kept separate. cannot afford to lose workers to the coronavirus it has a strict delivery schedule that it must adhere to. to make it worthwhile to manufacture products in germany where labor costs are high

the company relies on automation. fully automatic production takes away the worry about being undercut by cheaper imports and it protects the investment in new machines. have been something of a product but the pandemic has revealed just how important is sometimes can be. now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making headlines the head of the world trade organization says he will leave his post one year early spite the turmoil from the coronavirus brazilian roberto azevedo will step down on august 31st he's faced intense pressure from u.s. president donald trump who cues the body of anti american bias. german tax revenues are likely to take a big hit this year due to the pandemic an official estimate says taxes will be almost $100000000000.00 euros lower this year than previously projected the report

says the budget shortfall could grow to more than 300000000000 in the mid term. british media say the u.k. government plans to slash tariffs on u.s. agricultural imports to boost the prospects of securing a quick trade deal the 2 sides began negotiations last week agricultural access is seen as key for the u.s. but it remains controversial with british farmers. tesla's dispute over the fine lock down orders appears to be over san francisco authorities said the company could begin making vehicles from next monday. tesla's california plant controversially open for preproduction this week despite being categorized as a non-essential business. and the german health care system has so far weather the coronavirus pandemic with few major heck ups what if things get worse and frontline doctors and nurses become overwhelmed or now there's an app for that take a look. on a people take

a step back into her past. it's almost 10 years since she quit nursing for a job and. but when the coronavirus pandemic hit germany she decided that she wanted to help. she now works one day a month out of event as hospital in berlin. i wanted to make myself useful. i wanted to help even just a little bit and then i can still do a lot of course i'm not up to date with the very latest but with many things it is just a matter of learning the new procedures so that clown you know she found her way back to nursing via a platform called revolt in health and or in english we want to help it was developed by the berlin based health care nonprofit medling 10000 people have so far registered mostly nurses and doctors germany's hospital system is not overwhelmed by the pandemic but the platforms founders say it provides an emergency

resource should the situation worsened. get out we have built a pool of people with serve on health and that can be ready to start working in case the situation changes and more staff is needed in the hospitals if that happens we are ready and we can send stuff to the hospitals and nursing homes. on the ship. germany's writ of new cases has been consistently falling for weeks now. but there are still fears of a 2nd wave. either way peter and an army of others are there ready to help. when is a product's shape part of its identity and germany's highest civil court is weighing a dispute between 2 major chocolate brands that are sport and rival milk or milk rather over this ridge is patented square packaging a milka argues that patent that patent is unfair because chocolate is often made in

square shapes or rivers for it says the square is central to its identity as a chocolate bar designed in the 1930 s. to fit neatly in the pocket of a man's blazer or sport jacket a decision is expected in several weeks. and that's it for me and the business team here in berlin you can of course find out more about these and other business stories online at the dot com slash business to check us out on facebook and twitter thanks as always for joining us.

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